Baseball and the Recession

by ab03 on Feb 19, 2009 8:04 AM CST Comment 17 comments

Pretty good article about what the Diamondbacks are trying to do to cope with the recession. Some Moneyball stuff but more interesting is the focus on what the business side is doing

Nothing really ground breaking but the one that caught my eye: discount tickets.

Who's in charge of these things for the Rangers? Ryan? If we really are going to act like a small market team, we need to be doing some of these things. Otherwise, the team is going to see a steep drop in sales. DFWis doing a lot better than Arizona in terms of economy but the panic and fear will be there soon enough.

Also thought it was funny that the hot shot CEO of the Diamondbacks got his start at the Ohio University Program that young Miles attends.

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you havent heard him talk about the CEO? lol

and we can get tix here for 5$ (walkup only) for about 1.5 (small) sections worth – i think they have a blocked view – but for the nats, whose gonna actually sit in those seats? lol

Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.

by knockoutking on Feb 19, 2009 8:26 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

also fwiw

here is a link to a 1 pg version if you want to link to that ab (the print version)

http://tinyurl.com/ctjz3r

Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.

by knockoutking on Feb 19, 2009 8:28 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Good article

Of course, it’s not just baseball feeling the squeeze. The Arena Football League has suspended its 2009 season. The LPGA has been forced to cut tour events and prize money.

What? That’s like saying "Not only is the U.S. economy struggling, but so is Suriname’s and Burundi’s.

Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham.

by TheJeezus on Feb 19, 2009 8:30 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I'm surprised they don't adopt the Rangers recession approach

raise ticket prices and do nothing in the offseason!

I’m sorry, I shouldn’t say do nothing, we did get Andruw Jones, Omar Vizquel, and Jason Jennings! I’ll bet ticket sales are flying!

Get off my lawn.

by DJCahill on Feb 19, 2009 8:49 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Dark. Edgy. Cahill.

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by thedirkatron on Feb 19, 2009 8:56 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs

Heh.

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by t ball on Feb 19, 2009 10:22 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

The CEO and I are homies

He was my sports PR professor at USC/boss with the Dodgers. There’s no better guy I’ve met in sports. The D-Backs are in great hands.

by ericeric on Feb 19, 2009 11:43 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

The Rangers might at least

have free parking which I understand is what the Rays offer to their fans.

by SanDiegoKev on Feb 19, 2009 1:25 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

They do:

B of A and On The Border are two of my favorite free parking lots…

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by Rodney on Feb 19, 2009 2:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Shame shame, Rodney

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by baseballismyboyfriend on Feb 20, 2009 6:59 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

These days

I’d imagine there are some empty spots at B of A.

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by t ball on Feb 20, 2009 9:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Arlington, Texas

The largest city in the United States without any form of mass transit.

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by Black Francis on Feb 21, 2009 8:47 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm looking forward to the regional rail plans...

as long as the first priority is linking up the TRE line from DFW to the Ballpark and Cowboys stadiums. If they would do that it would help with congestion pre and post game a lot. I know I’d ride it and I’m sure a lot of others would from both Dallas and Fort Worth. It’d be like $3 or $5 roundtrip, plus don’t have to deal with the traffic.

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by rangers85 on Feb 21, 2009 9:34 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

If you're talking about the NTCOG's plan

…it’s a pipedream. Almost nothing in that has received funding. Some of those lines haven’t even had corridor studies, I don’t think. Many of the lines don’t make sense. Rail to Kaufman? Rail to Lake June Rd I can see, but to Kaufman? There are other priorities such as crosstown light rail for the DART system, which if I remember correctly isn’t even part of the plan at all.

Anyway we’ll all be dead before they start building anything that ambitions. Our kids will be dead before it’s finished.

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by Black Francis on Feb 22, 2009 10:46 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Is the thinking underneath the table that Arlington doesn't want mass transit to bring in more bums and streetrats from its neighbor cities?

You watch too many movies Sax.

by oc on Feb 21, 2009 1:26 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

the "rich" west side of arlington

doesn’t want to pay for a service that only the “poor” east side residents would use. That’s pretty much what it boils down to. I actually wrote a paper on the lack of mass transit in Arlington in college.

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by Dirk Diggler on Feb 21, 2009 9:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs