This increased fan support led to another important factor: An increased number of donations.
The longer-term impact of losing fan support is far more difficult to assess.
True, the Rays fan support is at the bottom of the barrel(22-30 in avg. attendance last year).
Fan support for the manager is at an all-time low but the players are still behind him.
Hansen has banked on fan support, noting the ticket waitlist campaign that saw more than 44, 000 season tickets requested.
Fan support would rise with mounting victories (though even losses sometimes promote esprit de corps, as Boston Red Sox fans would attest).
"It's good to get on the mound again and get back at it, especially with the fan support I was getting out there, " Gonzalez said.
"It was probably the best wrestling venue, in terms of fan support and excitement, that I've ever been a part of, " Burroughs said after the World Cup.
In the world of professional sports having it all not only means loving what you do, it also calls for making money and gaining fan support while doing it.
Cities like Utah, Sacramento, Portland, and Indiana have all had their stretches of excellence historically speaking, though some of those markets have done a better job retaining fan support than others.
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Should teachers be treated like professional football players, whose salaries, job security, and other perks are determined almost exclusively based on individual performance metrics, regardless of the quality of their management, stadiums, equipment, coaching, practice facility, the quality and ambition of their fellow players, their level of fan support, age, health, competition, weather, whether they primarily play indoors or outdoors, or sundry other factors that might empirically affect their performance?
Are there any other situations when a Liverpool fan could support Manchester United?
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In the last few months, fan interest and support seemed to be at its highest since before Bennett purchased the team from Howard Schultz in 2006.
There is a slight concern that the Falcons do not have as large or rabid of a fan base to support as large of an increase in prices as those with power in the secondary market may enjoy.
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Jaymay's move to the UK should build her already established anti-folk fan base since she will support Teddy Thompson, Nouvelle Vague and The Bird and The Bee on their respective UK tours.
At home, close to 3, 000 volunteers will be taken on across the country to help work in facilities that include fan zones, guest services, fan embassies, security service support, medical care and media assistance.
Tonight in Charleroi, Newcastle fan Mick Edmondson came again to support England in a decisive match.
Even when the city failed to get an NFL franchise when the league last expanded in 1995, the average Memphis sports fan always believed the city would support an NBA franchise.
Burns, a devout Red Sox fan, built a rather compelling case to support his argument.
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One clue to possible concerns for the FDA panelists comes from a fan of the drug who says he would support significant restrictions on lorcaserin in order to prevent it from being combined with other medicines.
Fans in traditional markets such as Boston and New York are eager for the season to start, along with some non-traditional fan bases, which have demonstrated an early eagerness to support their teams this upcoming season.
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Flipboard tonight also added support for Google Reader, Flickr feeds and Facebook fan pages.
It has an extremely active fan base, and lesser known candidates can get an early boost in conservative support from embracing the idea.
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So if the internal fan seems annoyingly loud, or you run into other problems that a quick tech-support call can't resolve, don't waste lots of time on the phone getting fixes particularly if they involve waiting for parts.
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