Free admission first day of baseball strike a possible PR idea for the Wizards? Any fan who shows a ticket to a future 2002 Twins game will receive a complimentary general admission ticket to the Thunder's nationally televised match against arch rival the Milwaukee Rampage on Friday, Aug. 30 at the National Sports Center in Blaine (kickoff 7:05 p.m.). The game will be televised live on Fox Sports World. http://sportsbybrooks.com/minnesotathunder.html
Someone said all MLS teams should do this, but I disagree, it seems pretty desperate. And for a league trying to be a "Major" league, it would be a bad move. Besides, there's probably 6,000 tickets already out there that will need to be refunded and for getting a few thousand more people to the game it's just not worth it.
Why not? Attendance figures are attendance figures, and we can possibly pick up a few hundred fans. And when they bring their friends, etc.... I actually don't think it's a half bad idea.
Attendance figures mean squat, contrarty to many posters on BigSoccer. Money is everything, as we should all know, so doing this wouldn't do much. Although, it might be worth a chance to get some people to come back to games.
What about a baseball ticket with every full price admission!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always spend more on parking and concessions than admission anyway.
How do you figure? If those people weren't going to show up anyway, you're not losing any money at all, just letting more people in. And they still have to pay for parking and concessions, which goes to Hunt, right? Maybe you're confusing loss with "opportunity loss," but then, if they weren't coming anyway, no opportunity loss? RS
you have to figure that if they offer free admission, then they have to hire extra staff for that game, extra facilities, etc.
Extra staff - okay. A little more security. That probably won't cost $5,000. Extra facilities - unlikely. I've never been to Arrowhead for an MLS game, but isn't almost all of it open for most games? How much more can they have to offer? RS
opening up more sections of the stadium, more concessions,more restrooms, more security,more parking staff,more stadium assistants...I see more than $5K here, but agree it's no $100K. Not to mention more portapottis in the lot! I think the Wiz pay for like 3 to be opened for soccer games!
They already have 10,000 or so paid tickets, at an average of at least $10. They'd have to refund that in one way or another.
Ticket Refunds? Why? The people who already have their tickets are strong supporters anyway. If you're going to be that critical about the money, howzabout a half-price GA ticket? The bottom line is that MLS has a great chance to become the new game of summer in America, and why should we let this go? Forget about baseball and it's greedy, steroid-freak, non-athletes. Come see soccer, a REAL sport, where you run more than ninety feet at a time...