Article: Albany Times Union, N.Y. Brian Ettkin column: Winning's not only thing.(Column)

Byline: Brian Ettkin

Apr. 8---- If you came for electricity, hope you brought a generator. The biggest River Rats game in seven years didn't feel significantly different from hundreds that preceded it. 1 After six consecutive last-place finishes, after seven consecutive seasons in which the Rats lost more often than they won, Saturday night's game against Bridgeport -- the team with whom the Rats were tied for the Eastern Conference's final playoff spot heading into the season's final week -- only drew an announced crowd of 4,428, about 500 more than their season average.

This was a test of my long-held belief that a minor-league team's success in ...

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