Do these fans deserve a post-season?

by IrishMariner on Sep 26, 2008 2:24 PM PDT Comment 20 comments

From Yahoo.com's report of yesterdays Brewers/Pirates game:- "...Brewers RHP Eric Gagne bought 5,000 unsold tickets to Thursday’s game and gave them away on the Brewers’ Web site. They were gone in 20 minutes"

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylt=Ahx7iwiB.a4BuvdNN.7a4U.pu7YF?gid=280925108&prov=ap

WTF? They are in a tight playoff race and the fans stay home, but if the ticket is free, then they decide to go?

If M's were even close to making it to October, I would like to think Safeco would be full each night.

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You would like to think that,

but it wouldn’t be correct.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SEA/2000_sched.shtml

by Matthew on Sep 26, 2008 2:32 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Hmm our attendance blew after school started.

9=8

by JI on Sep 26, 2008 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

STOLEN

by Robert on Sep 26, 2008 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not 100% sure but that Texas series might have fallen on the same days that UW's classes began

Because leading up to it attendance wasn’t all that bad.

by Robert on Sep 26, 2008 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And I had completely forgotten that we choked against the A's at home

by Robert on Sep 26, 2008 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well there you have it

We DIDN’T deserve the postseason, and the baseball gods got their revenge by giving us 2001 and then everything thereafter.

Woe to Milwaukee’s future.

by dnc on Sep 26, 2008 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Still amazes me

We were tied or led open to close in 2001. Amazing.

by batura on Sep 26, 2008 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's the least Gagne can do after robbing that team of $10m

9=8

by JI on Sep 26, 2008 2:44 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Well, yeah. Tickets cost money.

Remove the money barrier and seeing a game becomes more attractive.

by Gomez on Sep 26, 2008 3:00 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yup

Haven’t been to a DBacks game all year though I’d definitely go if someone bought my ticket.

by AZSEAfan on Sep 26, 2008 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

One year, for a game, A-Rod should buy all the tickets to the stadium

and then not give any of them away, and play in complete silence

by seattlebruin on Sep 26, 2008 4:57 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs

I can imagine that actually...

by Slurvey on Sep 26, 2008 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That would be completely amazing.

55!

by joof on Sep 26, 2008 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

And...

…factor in that he won’t even have to allow for someone in the wives section, then it’d be empty for sure…

by IrishMariner on Sep 26, 2008 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's the economy

Wages suck in the Midwest compared to the Puget Sound region…

Yeah, the middle class is feeling the crunch. A lot of fans can’t justify spending that much money to watch the game live when they can just watch it on TV – not my type of fan but I can understand their logic.

Insert perverted sports related sexual innuendo

by wwbaker3 on Sep 26, 2008 7:31 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

You'd have to wonder if this is the reason Seattle can afford so many bloated salaries.

Because they could possibly charge more per ticket since people in the Seattle area generally make more money than in areas like the Midwest as Baker pointed out. Now on the question of which players to give the bloated salaries to, the Mariners have failed horribly.

JI/Robert '08!

by Fin on Sep 27, 2008 1:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

One thing to note is that more Seattle fans have relatively more disposable income on average

I once saw a statistical breakdown (can’t recall where) on professions among Seattle residents, and a staggering ~57% of Seattle residents work as management. Now, how that can be is a whole can of worms that I’ll keep shut… but basically, considering the money in that line of work… I can see how spending the money for good seats to a game isn’t that big a deal to many.

Granted, the M’s attendance has sagged over this past season and change. But they still post significant attendance numbers (averaging 28K+ per game this season) despite the state of the team.

by Gomez on Sep 27, 2008 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe it'd also be important to note

not just the number of people in attendance, but which seats are being occupied. The range in prices of the seats vary greatly, from $7-~$50 per seat, and it could be that people here tend to buy the more expensive seats. Or maybe it isn’t as big of a deal to buy 2 or 3 $8 beers rather than just 1.

JI/Robert '08!

by Fin on Sep 29, 2008 2:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I notice at pretty much every game that the primo box seats are well filled, while the cheaper seats are more empty

I’ll never forget one of the LL nights early this year when the entire LF bleacher section was empty, literally. It was just a lone usher standing by himself.

by Gomez on Sep 29, 2008 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs