Arizona has not sold out game 1 of the NLCS

[cincy_]

If an MLS soccer game doesn't sell out, does MLS get to call out the city too?

... this tactic of calling out a city for not "supporting" a team is getting old.

Like terps said, who wants to go to a baseball game and watch it from a mile away? The best seat in the house is in the living room.

 

[ivyconniver]

If an MLS soccer game doesn't sell out, does MLS get to call out the city too?

... this tactic of calling out a city for not "supporting" a team is getting old.

Like terps said, who wants to go to a baseball game and watch it from a mile away? The best seat in the house is in the living room.

No, I can't blame Americans for not supporting MLS soccer. It is a second rate league. Same reason the XFL didn't work. People don't want to watch athletics unless it's the top tier athletes. European soccer has the talent, and gets the fans.

I don't even blame people for not going to Kansas City games, because their team is bad. A playoff baseball team is different. There is something the matter if an entire metro area can't get 50,000 people to go to a playoff game at face value ticket prices. As for the best seat being at home, to each their own, but the electricity at a playoff game is something worth experiencing. I think this game is just an anomaly.

 

[cincy_]

There is something the matter if an entire metro area can't get 50,000 people to go to a playoff game at face value ticket prices.

I understand that ... but who takes the blame?

MLB or Phoenix?

MLB lost a huge number of Gen X fans because they wanted to have playoff games end at midnight ... and now they can't sell out playoff games and they would like to blame Phoenix ...

Maybe people find baseball as boring as soccer ...

PS: I am biased ... I despise MLB and the way it's run ... and I love it when games don't sell out.

 

[Railbird]

Cincy's right.... It's the number 1 growth metropolitan area in the US, and yet they can't market their team well enough to sell out a MLB playoff game. Pitiful......

HAs nothing to do with markerting, 30% of the poplulation doesnt speak English, 3 months of the season the temp is 120. The game is boring, go to an Angel game the sport is dying. Nobody UNDER 30 gives a rats ass about baseball. Any youths that are at a game is because the parents are using it as a day care tool.

 

[Railbird]

baseball is a regional sport. People only care about the home teams. Playoff start times have little to do with it.

 

[GreenDoberman]

I'll be doing my part and driving down for tomorrow's game. That's one less ticket you guys can worry about.

 

[C.P.]

HAs nothing to do with markerting, 30% of the poplulation doesnt speak English, 3 months of the season the temp is 120. The game is boring, go to an Angel game the sport is dying. Nobody UNDER 30 gives a rats ass about baseball. Any youths that are at a game is because the parents are using it as a day care tool.

Yes the game is boring but I took my 2 kids to a CUB game last month..and It was fun for them....albeit a farse for my wallet...

I think ppl are getting priced out...also I think you are being kind w/that 30%...(seems like your low ballin' this one)..:drink:

rescept your post.

 

[PatPatriot]

Regular season parking (where we park anyway) at Dbacks games = $5
NLCS parking = $20

Thats a bargain.Try paying 40 bucks to park at Fenway for an April game against Tampa D Rays.

 

[ivyconniver]

Another thing to consider about yesterday's game, is that it started at 7:30 eastern time making it 4:30 local pacific time. Most people aren't out of work that early on a Thursday.

The atmosphere was nothing special because fans can't get fired up for an afternoon game with the seats half full. Scheduling needs to be changed for west coast games, let them play at their 7:30, even if it means less people on the east coast will watch.

 

[mamatried]

Baseball is not boring. It's just not special like it used to be, back when only the league champions played in post season; when the talent wasn't diluted by over expansion; when the World Series was played in the day so that kids could actually watch it, even if it meant playing hooky; when EVERY kid played baseball, and thus the best athletes naturally migrated to the game instead of to football, basketball, and (ugh) extreme "sports"; when there weren't 200 other choices on cable/satellite TV; when the majority of the country was blue collar workers who followed the game day in and day out, and could afford to take the family to the stadium a couple of times a year; when every single game wasn't televised; when relief pitchers with 5 ERAs weren't millionaires; when cities didn't subsidize billionaire owners with sweetheart stadium deals. And above all else - before free agency, when you actually could grow up following a team without the roster being overturned every other year.

 

[C.P.]

Baseball is not boring. It's just not special like it used to be, back when only the league champions played in post season; when the talent wasn't diluted by over expansion; when the World Series was played in the day so that kids could actually watch it, even if it meant playing hooky; when EVERY kid played baseball, and thus the best athletes naturally migrated to the game instead of to football, basketball, and (ugh) extreme "sports"; when there weren't 200 other choices on cable/satellite TV; when the majority of the country was blue collar workers who followed the game day in and day out, and could afford to take the family to the stadium a couple of times a year; when every single game wasn't televised; when relief pitchers with 5 ERAs weren't millionaires; when cities didn't subsidize billionaire owners with sweetheart stadium deals. And above all else - before free agency, when you actually could grow up following a team without the roster being overturned every other year.

hence...boring...

but nice read...you have some great points in your post

I've watch BB from the 60's on and THESE PLAYERS today r F*ckin' asswipes...

 

[BadCo]

I played hooky in 6th grade to stay home and watch Bob Gibson and Jim Lonborg duel in the 67 WS Borg took a no hitter into the late innings and Carl Yazkrimski hit 2 home runs.

I was like a pig eating shit that day.

Seems the the thrill is gone,but so is what was once the Xmas spirit.

Maybe todays kids are getting as much a thrill as we did back when?

 

[viking611]

I played hooky in 6th grade to stay home and watch Bob Gibson and Jim Lonborg duel in the 67 WS Borg took a no hitter into the late innings and Carl Yazkrimski hit 2 home runs.

Don't know if its your memory or what but this is incorrect. I wasn't even alive then but know that Gibson went 3-0 in this series and pitched 3 CGs of 9 innings. So there were no extra innings. I know in game one he only allowed one run on a solo HR, threw a shut-out in game 4, and allowed 2 runs on 3 hits in game 7.

Gibby dominated this series. 3-0, 27 innings, 26 Ks, only 15 hits or something and the 3 ERs.