Crew to Austin in 2019..(Maybe)

Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for them.

 

I guess my season ticket wouldn't count. And if someone doesn't believe that I'd buy a season ticket in spite of being here in Chicago, they are wrong.

 

Great post. I do not live as far away as you do; you have me "beat" by some miles.

I pledged four seats since my girl will be three and my boy will be five next year. As I have wrote on here, I was already thinking towards buying four STHs (currently have three, she is still free this season!), but I become a bit sad thinking about what may not be.


I saw Arace gave the pledge some love/press. Good for him.

 

Pluto's moon?

 

Monster Manual II was pretty great...

 

....although I've always thought she bore a striking resemblance to Sharon Mitchell, and if you know who that is, shame on you.

 

How do you assign altruism then?

 

Bruce Hooley and Chris Spielman were talking about the pledge and what it really means on their radio show this morning on 105.7. Spiels made a comment that he would sign the pledge and become a season ticket holder but didn't know how much a season ticket cost. He also thought that about 25% of people who pledge would actually follow through with it. I think that might be a little low, but wouldn't be surprised if the number was around a 50% conversion rate. Regardless, 50% of 20,000 pledges is a pretty good number as a starting point.

 

Ditto. I also pledged.

 

"Assign"? I did not know an abstract concept like altruism could be assigned.

Anyway, if one believes that there are other sources and measures of "value" than money and that actions are motivated by SOMETHING, altruism as it is commonly defined becomes something of a rainbow-farting unicorn that is really hard to reconcile.

I'm trying to present this as uncynically as possible, but obviously I'm not good at that.

 

Given previous numbers of season ticket holders, a number between 25 and 50% seems realistic.

 

Fair enough. I tend to disagree with you on this, but it is consistent with other values you have espoused.

BTW, I think I was thinking of "assign" in the following manner:

"to fix or specify in correspondence or relationship"

or

"to ascribe as a motive, reason, or cause especially after deliberation"


Or, it could be that I just think weird...

 

Hold up, are there actually 20,000 pledges so far??

 

In this instance my guess would be around 60-65% conversion rate. Just becasue of the cuase, the stroy line, the commitment to keep the team here. I want to think it would be higher and maybe it would be in 2019. But would likely drop off a little in 2020 unless everyone has a fantastic time, a new stadium is in the works, , the team is winning, new ownership jumps in with both feet - the perfect storm and we are selling out night after night.

I pledged for 3 and I meant it (I may actually do 4). Said it to my ticket rep right when this saga began - Keep the team here and I'm for season tickets.

 

I would imagine the real issue is the number of people who would end up getting season tickets who will have never heard of this pledge thing. My guess is, assuming the team sticks around through at least 2019, and assuming they do so with new, local owners, the number of people who get season tickets who didn't sign the pledge and possibly didn't even know its existence will outnumber those who did.

 

This begs the question, is Pluto a planet?

 

I would have sworn that's what I heard on the radio, but I'm not finding anything to actually back that up.

 

FAKE NEWS!!!!!!!!!

 

You may be thinking in German (seriously). I can see that construction happening if you think partly in German or a similar language.

 

You go have a seat in the naughty chair, mister.

 

I did a very very cursory look around the interwebz for a number, but didn't see anything. I would imagine that if they end up hitting a very solid number of pledges, STC will announce that at some point. What the specific number is that would make them announce, I'm not really sure. 10,000? 20,000? But whatever it is, it helps serve as more good news, could get even more people to pledge, etc.

 

It does get in my head from time to time. I recall once answering a comment of my mom's, not long after I'd returned from my semester overseas, by saying "you have right" instead of "you are right".

 

I have to imagine that the conversation rate will be greatly affected by the nature of the way new leadership takes over, and how well they manage that transition and leverage it to generate a honeymoon period of excitement.

Whoever these people are, if they knock it out of the park, if BrewDog is part fo the ownership group, say, if some sort of creative incentives to buy season tickets are involved, if there's a real stadium deal to announce, hell, there could be a level of excitement about the future of the franchise that wouldn't have been equaled for many years, if ever (especially if we're still near the top of the Eastern Conference standings when the news breaks).

Or not. The details will matter a lot here. New ownership = an opportunity to relaunch the franchise. But only if that opportunity is taken advantage of.

 

The only concrete number that I could find was from an Arace article that stated there were 5,000 pledges as of midnight on Friday.