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

Dead Deer Fucking Season hasn't started in Wisconsin yet so Brewer fans don't have anything else to do. That helps bump up demand too.

 

Not sure what that means, but if fans aren't buying at $16, make the tickets $10. If fans aren't buying at $10, make 'em $0 and take what you can get in concessions. The owners seem to have no qualms with testing the supply-and-demand curve upward for later rounds and better tickets, so why is there a rule that the price can never move downward?

And if it's about a terrible ballpark experience more than it is about price, then take it as a lesson for next year and make the ballpark better.

I don't understand why anyone thinks sports fans have an obligation to meet owners' prices. It's like saying the movie studio spent a lot of money on Waterworld, you better spend your money and go see it or we aren't going to try to make any more movies!

 

What the fuck are you talking about?

It's always dead deer fucking season.

 

It is fucking embarrassing these cities couldn't sell out a playoff game. April and the dog days of August are another matter, but October is inexcusable.

 

You're right, goddammit, why don't these people understand it's their fucking obligation to go spend 100 bucks and five hours of a school/work night? Otherwise how are the D-backs going to be able to afford these eight-figure contracts? It's not fair! Not fair at all!

 

$20 gets thrown around pretty heedlessly on plenty of stupid crap.

It just shows it's a bush baseball town (which everyone knew already).

 

Is there any other business in the world where it's the customer's fault if the product doesn't sell?

 

Sure. Pretty much everything. You've never had a TV show you like get canceled and wished more people had watched it?

Framing it as "the customer's fault" is lame. If you can't sellout your playoff games, you are a crappy fan base. So what? Is being a crappy fan base such a horrible distinction that we can't possibly call them on it?

 

Stu Sternberg and Bud Selig are framing it as "the customer's fault".

 

Yeah that's a great way to run a business.

Fans aren't obligated to pay shit, owners aren't obligated to stay in shitty markets. Are you really arguing that Phoenix is a good market? If you can't sell out at 16 bucks a ticket, the market sucks.

 

When the Rays have bent over backwards from a business standpoint to accommodate their fans and put every last tube of lipstick on their pig of a stadium, and have qualified for the playoffs three of the last four years in the atomic minefield of the AL East, it's fair to ask when the fans intend to start showing up.

 

Maybe the stadium sucks so much ass that fans are better off staying home. Again: not fans' fault. Want them to go to more? Build a better stadium.

We have seen it out here in the sharpest relief possible. The A's have sat on their asses for 30 years, they can't sell shit, they're dying on the vine and they always blame fans for not wanting to buy their crappy product. The Giants -- who trailed the A's in every market measure as recently 15 years ago -- got their shit together and now you can't buy a ticket.