My thought, and maybe I'm misunderstanding how these numbers are being put together, is that a lot of the 31k so far (and hypothetical 32k this summer) are people scooping up $9 tickets on Stubhub from the full slate of season ticket holders, and it's my understanding that they ran through a huge portion of the season ticket wait list in this offseason between people dropping tickets and peoples name getting called and passing on buying them. It seems outrageous that would it would get to a point where there would be no wait list, not a full amount of season ticket holders, etc, but...maybe it wouldn't? Pretty much everyone knows how to use the secondary market websites now, and they're all seeing how cheaply they can go to the game if they use those and let STHs subsidize the Cubs for the rest of the ticket price. But those people showing up for $9 a ticket aren't going to walk up to the gate in a couple years and pay the face value if the thousands of season tickets available on Stubhub for every game starts to dry up. Aren't the attendance numbers based on paid tickets? I know back in the day the NL used to base it on gate attendance but I thought that changed (or maybe I have it in reverse) It's gotta be paid tickets. The game I went to they were claiming that there were more than 28,000 people there....despite it spitting rain almost the whole time. Bulllllllllllllllll horsefeathers. There were MAYBE 20,000 people there at the most.