If you build it (smaller), they will come.

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: ric1287

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
They don't want it to look like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...2/AR2007091201874.html

The Dodgers now have the largest stadium.

thats again the small market vs large. And shitty team vs. large.

Wrigley, Yankees, etc will never be empty.

Wrigley field during a game

That is just one of many pics showing wrigly half full.

Tickets cost way to much IMO. I want to go to the Nationals game when the Braves come here but I am looking at $200 and that is for average tickets at best for me and some others. So not ants playing ball but maybe small kittens playing type seats.

Now the Marlins stadium is really bad. Its FL yet all the seats are open to the sun. Even wrigly has a lot of seats that have some type of covering. So between the market, sun, and price of tickets I am not surprised why the seats are empty.

Depends on the weather quite a bit as to if ticket holders will show. If it's 35 degrees and raining you aren't going to hit capacity.

According to the statistics the Cubs sold out an average of 99.1% of their seats for home games in 2008 (the 2nd highest behind the Red Sox).

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: techs
...if they were to put last years attendence in the new stadium, every seat for every game would be sold out.
And last year was not exactly a great year for the Yankees.
Check.

You answered your own question. Now they can claim most, if not all, games are sold out and hence the justification for raising prices. Creating their own scarceness.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: lokiju
They just had the opening weekend this past week here for the Gwinnett Braves which is a minor league team.

But I drove by the stadium on my way somewhere else last weekend and was surprise at how small it was.

Actually, they are opening up this weekend. We're going to the Saturday night game. $6 tickets to sit on a picnic blanket on the grass in the outfield. :thumbsup:

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: ric1287

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: ric1287

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
They don't want it to look like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...2/AR2007091201874.html

The Dodgers now have the largest stadium.

thats again the small market vs large. And shitty team vs. large.

Wrigley, Yankees, etc will never be empty.

Wrigley field during a game

That is just one of many pics showing wrigly half full.

Tickets cost way to much IMO. I want to go to the Nationals game when the Braves come here but I am looking at $200 and that is for average tickets at best for me and some others. So not ants playing ball but maybe small kittens playing type seats.

Now the Marlins stadium is really bad. Its FL yet all the seats are open to the sun. Even wrigly has a lot of seats that have some type of covering. So between the market, sun, and price of tickets I am not surprised why the seats are empty.

I guarantee you that at least 90% of those seats were sold just nobody came.

And I bet there were a lot of tickets sold at the Marlins game as well. But when you see it on TV and see empty seats it does not look good.

But still no covering and in FL during the summer. Even my wife said she would go to the Braves/Nats game if the seats were covered. So to her there is no good seat at the Marlins field.

But I bet if the Marlins said unsold tickets are half off (or more) at the gate when the game starts there be a lot more people. I know I go to a lot more nats games if the tickets were cheaper. Don;t get me started on parking and how to get to the field that is another barrier to get many to go.

 

[ric1287]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: ric1287

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: ric1287

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
They don't want it to look like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...2/AR2007091201874.html

The Dodgers now have the largest stadium.

thats again the small market vs large. And shitty team vs. large.

Wrigley, Yankees, etc will never be empty.

Wrigley field during a game

That is just one of many pics showing wrigly half full.

Tickets cost way to much IMO. I want to go to the Nationals game when the Braves come here but I am looking at $200 and that is for average tickets at best for me and some others. So not ants playing ball but maybe small kittens playing type seats.

Now the Marlins stadium is really bad. Its FL yet all the seats are open to the sun. Even wrigly has a lot of seats that have some type of covering. So between the market, sun, and price of tickets I am not surprised why the seats are empty.

I guarantee you that at least 90% of those seats were sold just nobody came.

And I bet there were a lot of tickets sold at the Marlins game as well. But when you see it on TV and see empty seats it does not look good.

But still no covering and in FL during the summer. Even my wife said she would go to the Braves/Nats game if the seats were covered. So to her there is no good seat at the Marlins field.

But I bet if the Marlins said unsold tickets are half off (or more) at the gate when the game starts there be a lot more people. I know I go to a lot more nats games if the tickets were cheaper. Don;t get me started on parking and how to get to the field that is another barrier to get many to go.

maybe thats why theyre getting a new stadium

Still don't understand how the lowest $$ franchise in the sport gets a new stadium approved...then again I dont know how they managed 2 WS titles in the past 12 years.

 

[preCRT]

Because every team wishes they had Fenway Pahk

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: preCRT
Because every team wishes they had Fenway Pahk

We have the next best thing, stinks of old beer and urine just like it's Boston cousin.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: preCRT
Because every team wishes they had Fenway Pahk

Oh fuck your weird ass we don't got money to put up seats in the left field, so we'll just put a big ass wall there ball park. My Pac Bell park is way classier.

 

[bignateyk]

Baseball sucks, and the masses are beginning to realize it, so they are building smaller stadiums since none of them sell out anymore.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: bignateyk
Baseball sucks, and the masses are beginning to realize it, so they are building smaller stadiums since none of them sell out anymore.

er....2007 and 2008 were the two highest attendance years for MLB in it's history

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: bignateyk
Baseball sucks, and the masses are beginning to realize it, so they are building smaller stadiums since none of them sell out anymore.

er....2007 and 2008 were the two highest attendance years for MLB in it's history

It's just a conspiracy. That's what THEY want you to believe.

 

[Baked]

You know who don't like baseball? Terrorists and bignateyk.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: Mo0o
People love homeruns

chicks dig the long-ball

I always heard they liked the fat bat.

 

[nanette1985]

One other factor, at least for New Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, is that people are fatter, and they made the seats bigger. Same amount of space, fewer seats. At least that's what a ticket broker friend tells me.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: Baked

Originally posted by: preCRT
Because every team wishes they had Fenway Pahk

Oh fuck your weird ass we don't got money to put up seats in the left field, so we'll just put a big ass wall there ball park. My Pac Bell park is way classier.

no, it's because there's a public street on the other side of the wall. a wall as old as your city post-fire, and a street 100 years older than this country. and your park isn't classier, it's fruitier. are the palm trees still wearing pony tails?

 

[pontifex]

last i heard they were hurting for attendees

 

[DrPizza]

Back in (87?) during the strike, millions of people said, "screw them. When this strike is over, I'm never watching those over-paid cry-babies again. I'm through with watching MLB."
<---- one of the few people who followed through.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: pontifex
last i heard they were hurting for attendees

Maybe this year. But up til now baseball has been breaking attendance records year over the last several years.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: princess ida
One other factor, at least for New Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, is that people are fatter, and they made the seats bigger. Same amount of space, fewer seats. At least that's what a ticket broker friend tells me.

That certainly would seem to make some sense, but in the case of Citi Field they now have seats behind the outfield walls they didn't have before, plus they have seats in what used to be foul territory. So I am guessing they could have had more seats than they now have, but chose not to.

 

[slayer202]

there is a whole lot of stupid in this thread

 

[akshatp]

The $75 average at Yankee Stadium is largely due to the $2500 and up Legends Field Suites around the infield. Take that away and your average probably drops to less than $40 a game.

I just got 4 tickets in the upper deck behind home plate for $16 a piece on stubhub for next weeks game against Oakland. Cheap tickets are available, dont get it twisted.

And seeing as you can watch the game from ANYWHERE in the ballpark, all you need to do is get in the door. Open air stadium FTW. I was there for the first game against the Cubs, and the place is just amazing.