Friday's attendance was 32,663. The team can't complain about the schedule. They've had three games with NL rivals Los Angeles and Colorado. St. Louis was here, even though Mark McGwire didn't play. These are teams that typically draw well.
Fans are human.
They want winners. So, when you start winning and getting in pennant drives, that's when they're going to come out. We hope that we're doing all the right things to get people to come out. When he played for the Cubs, Gonzalez was used to seeing fans come out in force at Wrigley Field in the middle of the afternoon, even when the Cubs were lovable losers. Phoenix has no such excuse.