Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

I think there is something to that arena and stadium experience... except that, why bother with the majors when there are plenty of good minor league teams around? Even in Rhode Island, we have the Pawsox and the summer season Newport Gulls, both of which are much cheaper to haul the kids to, and you don't feel like you have to stick around when Lil Jimmy is about to throw up after his third hot dog. Neither team has a ton of heralded prospects (same with the P-Bruins), so you're mostly scooping up families looking for a night out.

 

So it's the hot dogs that are going to be the downfall of the Little Jimmies, eh? Not the T-shirts?

 

Wait, Tampa not a sellout? Say it ain't so!

 

I think Atlanta sold out its NLDS games in 2003 for the same reason.

 

by the way, fwiw, mike breen -- a terrific basketball pbp tv guy -- has been very disappointing on the tigers-yanks series. sounds very much like a fish outta water, imo. not that any tv talking heads have impressed me among the tbs crew.

 

I saw the empty seats - high in the upper deck.

I am not sure how you'd convince me to pay, I am guessing, $60 a ticket, $9 beers, $20 parking to watch a game where the players look like specks.

Or, I can watch it at home in glorious hd, rewind for replays any time I want, have a fridge full of beers... oh, and no lines in the bathroom.



I don't understand why that makes me a shitty fan.

 

Shitty fan base. Sorry, if you can't sell out a playoff game, your fan base has issues.

 

I can't figure out why they spent all that money on this baseball contract and can't spend the couple hundred thou or whatever it would take to get some decent announcers. Boy, those guys are horrible.

 

There's one good way they could bring fans in: make tickets cheaper. Supply and demand. People aren't buying? Make 'em buy.

It isn't fans, it's arrogant owners. Why does anyone have an obligation to subsidize millionaires?

 

Tropicana Field lets you park for free or at a discount and bring your own food and drinks in.

This may have changed for the ALDS, but I wouldn't bet on it.

It should have sold out.

 

The bad economy thing is bullshit. Milwaukee's economy isn't exactly rolling along either, but you can't get a ticket there for love or money.

Detroit? St. Louis? Neither of those cities have brimming economies either. The only advantage they have over Phoenix is that their teams are longer-established.

 

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