Disturbing Facts
Financially are the A's better off by closing the third deck? Has the lost revenue fron the lower attendance greater or less than the added costs of running the third deck?
The A's have announce a 34,000 seat stadium in Freemont. How are the A's going to increase revenue to allow us to keep our quality players? If the demand for tickets sell out the stadium it will mean attendance will be about 2.7 million fans. Will this give us enough money? Will the A's like the Giants, be strapped for cash because they half to service the debt to build the stadium?
If the demand for tickes increases to give the A's a sellouts, are we looking at a 30% or more increase in ticket prices?
What else can the A's do to increase revenue? Is technology the answer? If so, will the average baseball fan buy into it?
Do you have any suggestions or answers?
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I agree
by teenster on Nov 17, 2006 8:00 PM PST 0 recs
You don't seem to realize
They might sell out the 2nd year.
But after that, the demand drops a lot. Look at Pittsburgh, or San Diego, or the other new parks.
With the fickleness of Bay Area, or California residents in general, building a huge stadium, like a 45k stadium, would be a waste. It would be half empty in no time.
by Zonis on
Nov 17, 2006 8:12 PM PST
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Don't underestimate all the people
by southofcruiseamerica on
Nov 17, 2006 8:41 PM PST
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If the stadium does not sell out
by billyball1981 on
Nov 20, 2006 2:28 PM PST
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As a season ticket holder
by skigurl on Nov 17, 2006 8:15 PM PST 0 recs
Red Sox are at the end of the Bell curve
A letter from Lew Wolff comparing the A's and Giants on the field and off was posted here a few days ago. I imagine the A's would like to be in Giants territory as far as pricing. That's a lot closer to where the A's are now than it is to the Red Sox. I have a lot of trouble imagining that the Bay Area market would support Red Sox pricing.
by cynthia2003 on
Nov 17, 2006 8:36 PM PST
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The new stadiums all have
by china bob on Nov 17, 2006 9:31 PM PST 0 recs
Freemont?
by LilAnnieOaktown on Nov 17, 2006 9:40 PM PST 0 recs
Revenue in '06
http://newballpark.blogspot.com/2006_09_17_newballpark_archive.html
by vk on Nov 17, 2006 10:16 PM PST 0 recs
It's not just going to be about
by Blez on Nov 17, 2006 11:43 PM PST 0 recs
Freaking LA land grabbers
Why did they have to buy the Oakland Athletics?
Why didn't they buy the Marlins, some franchise no one cares about?
Why did they feel the need to DESTROY our COMMUNITY? Expel the REGULAR FOLKS who were AWESOME FANS? The VERY BEST THING about the A's!
In order to make a buck? How freaking rich do those guys need to be?
Things were so cool before Wolf came around. Win or lose, we could all participate. It was our team.
I wasn't here at the time: were there people who stuck up for Finley when he dismantled the champs?
by freddy on
Nov 18, 2006 1:52 AM PST
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Dude, It Was Never YOUR team
Yes, things were sure cool. Lowest payroll in baseball, no hope of saving star players that the team cultivated all the way through their own farm system, and poor attendance year after year and no shot at any kind of a consistent post season because of all of this.
Things were not cool. Oh, and it was not (your) team.
Too many fans living in the small realm who are too afraid to be part of something bigger and successful. If the former A's business plan, payroll, ticket prices and use of a stadium like the Coliseum was the blueprint for success, then all the successful teams in baseball would be doing the same thing. They don't.
Enough already with this little social clique some of you thought you ran out there. You didn't. And it's time to grow up with the A's and play with the big teams or go on to something else.
I'm glad Lew Wolff is running the show with Fisher and Beane. The foundation is now in place for the A's to be what they were: Champions.
by BornInOakland on
Nov 18, 2006 9:27 AM PST
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Either they were lying, or you are a fool
Ray Steele introduced the team as "Your Oakland Athletics"
Whether I was listening to the game on the radio, sitting up on the third deck or behind home plate, I'd look at the folks around me and smile. It felt good. They were OUR Oakland Athletics. Great men said so.
If you would like to accuse both of those men of lying through their teeth, feel free.
But you are already speaking irrationally. I'd lay off the Kool-Aid, dude.
by freddy on
Nov 19, 2006 9:12 PM PST
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Puhleeeze
Was listening to Bill King call Raider and Warriors games in the 70's. And Roy (not Ray as you wrote) Steele has been like a friend to me in all those years at the Coliseum. His voice makes an A's game an A's game.
So there's a little history for you first. I didn't just fall off the Oakland A's badwagon like some people here.
Having said all that, you are mistaking a PR line and fan enjoyment tag for the real thing. As for your pot shots at Wolff etc.... I'll ask what I've been asking people like you for sometime: Would you rather he moved the team to Portland? He didn't. he found a home and is making it happen .
by BornInOakland on
Nov 20, 2006 11:16 AM PST
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If it wasn't for mean
by Salvatore on Nov 18, 2006 8:44 AM PST 0 recs
Agreed on Old charlie O
Sometimes you need people like that. Dislike them you might, but they win. And that's what it's all about in pro sports.
by BornInOakland on
Nov 18, 2006 9:29 AM PST
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Bring back the orange baseballs.
by LilAnnieOaktown on Nov 18, 2006 11:08 PM PST 0 recs
Were you speaking about the owner?
by billyball1981 on
Nov 20, 2006 2:48 PM PST
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I knew it!
by LilAnnieOaktown on
Nov 20, 2006 4:53 PM PST
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