People have posted about this before but attendance will likely not fall below 2 million, even with a bad team. After the historically awful 2002, even 1.7 million fans came out in 2003 (13th of 16 in attendance). They have been competitive just about every year since then but Milwaukee has always had a very supportive fan base. Additionally, many people come for the whole experience of tailgating and partying and don't even care if the Brewers win/lose. I would argue that keeping guys like Lind, Gomez, Segura, Lucroy would do more damage in the long run because it shows that the owners only care about things like attendance and trying to give the false sense that we can compete. Fans aren't stupid. If you show them and make them understand what you are trying to do, i.e., trade our valuable assets now to be even more better in the future, they will come on board.