Friday, May 24, 2013
Fay Vincent: THE UMPIRE FIX
(www.murraychass.com)
TONY RANDAZZO NO MISTER ROCK AND ROLL, MR. COMMISSIONER.
Read More...Major League Baseball should immediately adopt reforms to the umpiring system. MLB is now a $7 billion dollar industry awash in cash so the costs of these changes can hardly be the reason to defer making them.
1. MLB should buy the umpire schools and take over the training and development of all umpires in professional baseball. The recruitment, training and compensation of minor league and major league umpires should be controlled ...
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< 1 2"PriceMaster"
"TicketMonopoly"
"MoneySiphon"
So that they can go from being filthy rich to filthy stinking rich? I'm in the wrong business.
The main reason teams hate StubHub is it kills walk up sales. For some teams, I wouldn't be surprised if the loss in walk up sales for the year outweighs the money made from the StubHub deal. Prices usually drop as the game gets closer, so many times the fan gets a better deal on StubHub by waiting until the last minute as opposed to visiting the box office or the team's website.
But as mentioned above, it also increases season ticket sales. For MLB to maintain season ticket sales and also increase walkup sales, they'll just have to make more people want to show up to the park. Renegotiating the deal with StubHub or switching to TicketMaster isn't going to do the trick.
Which is good because TM is basically indefensible. Talk about a sleazy corporation.
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