The Majority of attendance has less to do with who showed up and lots to do with how many tickets were sold. The majority of which are Season plans of one sort or another. If the fans go or not will affect the concession revenue but the attendance is still being PAID even if you do not decide to go to that game if you have a full season plan.

The TV money is based on how well and how much the rights are worth at the time of the signing. That may fluctuate and accelerate each year but it is a fixed cost until the contract has run out.
That money is NOT dependent on how good your team is or who is one it. Winning a WS will not increase what you get from those TV during a contract but will only be seen if your still good when it comes time to renew those tv rights.

A winning team will influence more IMPULSE purchases to game day and single game tickets but that is a very small part of the total attendance figures that go towards paying the bills.

The Majority of the attendance is based on how many season tickets and BULK game purchases are made and those are bought and paid for before the first game can be won or lost!

They are sold on a BELIEF that there will or will not be a good product to see!
Which means what you do in the OFFSEASON has a lot more to do with your attendance and ticket sales than anything that happens DURING the season in a positive or negative light!

If your GOOD you will have the more impulse buys on top of the season ticket holders and if your bad you will get less people to go to the game on impulse and some will even skip using tickets they already purchased!

So NO attendance really has NOTHING to do with how well you play as far as ticket sales go. It is all about the PERCEPTION of that team at the time you have to decide to buy season tickets that sets the bar on how many tickets you will have GUARANTEED sold and the winning or losing onbly affects how many more you sell on impulse and day of game sales!
And it is amplified by the fact that for each ticket sold you also get concession money on top of that!

So WINNING might help in that bregard but as far as Ticket sales go it is really all about what the fans percieve is worth buying during the off season!
If they think the team is worth seeing in dec and Jan they will buy a season plan.
If they don’t they will skip buying leading to less attendance overall UNLESS they are wrong and the team is really good!

Which usually means you didn’t sell tickets for the first half of the season until the fans see how wrong they were about their perception!

The mets don’t own the real Estate business the real estate business owns the Mets!

It also owns the Network!
Two seperate entiies and businesses.

If you were Time Warner or NBCU would you allow one of your partners to take your profits to invest in a business they have no piece of?

Sterling is a holding company!
The METS are a baseball team OWNED by that holding company!
The idea they are one and the same is dead wrong!

The on;ly money the Mets get from TV rights is a flat fee per year (it might accelerate each year).
It has nothing to do with Advertising or SNY profits, the Mets get none of that! Wilpons get a share but they are two seperate entities!

SNY has a contract to air the games and they sell all the advertising and keep all that money.
You guys clearly don’t understand the TV business!
None of the money generated by SNY actually goes to the mets. Some may go to the Wilpons as a shareholder but that doesn’t mean the Mets can just spend money based on that unless the Wilpons decide to use personal money to float the team!

And part of those right fees actually goes to the MLB in case anyone didn’t know that!

Here is a look at the paid attendance to the Mets 81 home games.
baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=Ytjm9

The monthly breakdown if correct comes out to the following.
April (13 games**) 346,019
May (14 games) 398,559
June (11 games) 336,002
July (10 games) 374,785
August (17 games**) 463,980
September (16 games**) 433,251
Total = 2,352,596

** Shows zero attendance for 1st game of doubleheader on Apr 14, Aug 29, Sept 8.

ESPN so you know has a different total. It says the Mets total attendance for 2011 was 2,378,549 in 79 games.
espn.go.com/mlb/attendance/_/sort/homePct

The start of 2011, attendance was down because we believed that it was a waste year to purge off Castillo and Perez’s contacts and get a chance to reload and get healthy for 2012.

2010 and 2009 started off pretty good, but dropped off as quickly as Mets hit the DL and fell out of contention.

I’m not gonna blame Alderson for 2009-10, obviously they weren’t his fault, injuries mostly. I gave him a pass on 2011 because I assumed that he was going to reinvest in the team in 2012. I’m not so sure that’s his plan, in fact seeing that payroll is going to be dropped by 40mil for 2012, it’s pretty obvious it’s not the plan.

My point is…if Sandy doesn’t do something to prove to the fans that the 2012 season isn’t a waste and he’s just going to dump Wright as soon as he gets the chance, the fans won’t bother to come out for any part of the season. We’ll see empty seats all year long and revenue will drop more forcing the team into a bigger hole.

If Sandy signed Reyes and added legitimate depth to the rotation and Pen, it would give the fans a little bit of hope and a reason to watch…and a little bit of hope is all die hard Mets fans need. Doing nothing just proves to us that we should find something better to do.

nytimes.com/2011/11/01/sports/baseball/mets-to-alter-dimensions-of-citi-field.html?pagewanted=all

Wow, is this what lawyers refer to as the insanity defense?

TV Revenues were determined from ad sales done early in the year. Those #s shouldn’t be a big surprise in November.

Ticket Sales being down less than 200,000 isn’t a huge huge drop and likely was expected. In fact you could possibly make a case that 2.3mil fans in 2011 was higher than expected

Merch Sales I can’t comment on because I don’t know the final #s.

When you prepare a budget of income and expenses, you do project how things will turn out.

I’m just saying I don’t think the reason the Mets can’t pay back a $25mil loan is because of the 2011 season. The significant attendance drop from 2009 to 2010, the consistently high payroll, the stadium costs and you know that guy Bernie Madoff likely have more to do with this news report than Sandy Alderson

I’m not saying that the current problems are Sandy’s fault, but his approach of cutting players and hoping for success from AA players three years down the road aren’t the best way to fix the problems either.

I pray what I perceive is wrong….I pray that Sandy is this very cool poker player that some people make him out to be…I really hope I see something positive this year. I’m just not gonna bet on it.

I guarantee you that financially the drop from 2009 to 2010 attendance hurt the franchise’s pockets more than 2011 did.

Plus ad sales for television are sold ahead of time. Therefore sponsor dollars for the 2011 season would be based on prior years viewers, so the 2012 income would be impacted by a drop in 2011 viewers.

Also, I don’t know this but how do you know merch is down? It may have been reported but I didn’t see it.

Dont forget construction of the new wall, that cost alone likely is taking a bigger toll on the checkbook over viewers, merch and tickets.