It’s taken a while, but the national media is starting to take notice that rainouts this year are skewing the early 2011 attendance total (well, rainouts and the Dodgers, if you want to be exact).

Sunday saw not one. Not two. But, three rainouts, pushing the season total to 25. To place that in perspective, at the same point last season there was just 8, and the record number for this point over the last decade was 28 in 2007.

Along the way on Sunday, we had the MLB Civil Rights Game, seeing Halladay v Hudson, the Red Sox sweep the Yankees in Yankee Stadium for the first time since 2004 on the ESPN Sunday Night Game, and even though the Twins are mired in an incredible slump, season ticket sales continue to keep paid attendance for the Twins at near sellout levels.

Here is the rest of Sunday’s totals:

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written by GregP, May 16, 2011

Hey guys, thanks for the great work. Just following this from afar, so I'm wondering if there are other factors coming into play with the Twins, such as:

-new stadium effects (general "halo" effect, they had fans sign multiyear season ticket contracts, etc.)
-fan expectations heading into the season
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written by schedule junkie, May 16, 2011

A slight mistake in the article: there have been 26 postponements so far this season, not 25.

Though that may seem like a lot, and it is compared to recent seasons, here are some figures from past years to put the current postponement figures into context.

Through May 15th of each year:

In 1982, there had been 28 postponements;
In 1975, there had been 33 postponements;
In 1952, there had been 38 postponements;
In 1947, there had been 66 postponements.

Think about that 1947 figure: it occurred in a league with just 16 teams compared to the current 30, and a season which started two weeks later than the 2011 season.

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