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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Friday, February 22, 2008
Nevertheless, some Nats executives had privately hoped for a season ticket base of more than 20,000, edging into the sport’s top 10. But a variety of factors, including the overhang of the steroid scandal, has produced an odd statistic in ticket sales. The Nats are selling more 20-game ticket packages than they expected, but fewer full-season 81-game packages.
“Why the strong appeal of 20-game packages? Is it the economy? Is it because we’re a growing team? Is it changes in the lobbying laws? I don’t know,” Kasten said. “We’ll get the attendance we deserve. It’s our job to attract them.”
The latest wave of scandals has rocked baseball at a time when the sport was in booming health and could withstand the shock. A whole generation of Glamorous Ballpark Construction is reaching its crescendo with new Taj Mahal parks being built for the megabucks Yankees and Mets. Even the Twins have a new home coming. “The sport has transitioned to a different model,” Kasten said. “You don’t ‘go to a game’ anymore. You have a four-hour entertainment experience.”
Which is why I’ve been avoiding ML parks like bursting cellulitis and taking in more HS games.
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1. Swedish Chef Posted: February 22, 2008 at 10:52 AM (#2697223)Should slow-working pitchers command a premium for keeping the people in the park for longer, presumably spending more and seeing more ads?
But then, if I had my druthers, I'd rather put the shock collar on the batters and make them stop stepping out after every damn pitch.
Man, DC really needs a real baseball columnist. This guy can still string together three pretty sentences in a row, but, man, they're usually incoherent or wrong.
Winning draws fans in, and the Nats haven't done that. And more importantly, the team has done nothing visible to the average fan to show them that they're winning. When your big free agent acquisition is Paul Lo Duca, and you're barely getting your payroll up to the levels it saw under MLB's stewardship, it's no wonder ticket sales aren't as good as they thought!
A note about OF Don Lock that I came across recently.....from 1966!
Imagine the logic:
You know, I was going to buy an 81-game season ticket, but, after the Mitchell report, how can I look my children in the eye if I don't cut back to a 20-game plan?
Steroids appall me and I figure 75% of players are on steroids ... so I'm only going to 25% as many games as I would otherwise.
The weekend plan will leave me free to watch Congressional hearings on steroids.
Well, you are, Stan, to be sure. But no one else is.
So this is Blow Duca's fault? Ha!
Is that Steve Trachsel, the guy who got an NRI from the Orioles, or Steve Trachsel, the guy who is already listed as the Oriole's #4 starter?
I'm with Repoz. I can catch a high school game, then drive halfway across town and catch a college double-header in the time it takes to watch a ML game. It's not that I don't have 4 hours, it's that I can see so much more action in the same period of time.
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