Originally Posted by unccrombie (Post 16391911)

ever seen a sold out Houston astro's stadium?
:lol

Originally Posted by hailtopitt (Post 16391886)

nah, believe me, these teams know what they're doing when they set their price points

everything is meticulously researched and tested to find the sweet spot when it comes to prices. if they thought they could get more revenue by lowering ticket prices, they would.

especially in baseball, there will always be small crowds when:

1. school is still in session. once the young ones are out for summer, stadiums start filling up

2. there is cold/rainy weather...we usually see this in april/may or even in the winter for hockey games. (a big storm even cancelled some games this year) we've had small crowds at pens games when a big snow storm would hit

3. the team is really bad from the get-go (this goes for all sports)

Originally Posted by hailtopitt (Post 16391914)

compare what PNC Park looked like in 2004 as opposed to 2013

it's unreal

Originally Posted by jrkarger (Post 16391903)

Winning puts more people in seats than lower ticket prices.

Originally Posted by salrx95 (Post 16391865)

I often feel shitty for not bringing my boys to Yankee Stadium yet, especially before Jeter retired but when I consider decent seats plus parking and food, you are talking like , what, at least $500. It's crazy.

Originally Posted by SirBobalew (Post 16391947)

Except at Wrigley. I read an article once that someone did a study and Cubs ticket sales were more closely correlated to the price of beer at the stadium than to winning %. In the same city, the White Sox ticket sales were more correlated to the team's winning % than beer prices.

Originally Posted by rconverse (Post 16391962)

That's interesting because I don't ever remember the beer at Wrigley being cheap.

Originally Posted by TMoore4075 (Post 16391700)

And what I thought. Little Caesars Arena...Not the worst I guess but ugh.

Originally Posted by Lcsulla (Post 16391955)

You are not missing much, that place is now a monument to corporate greed IMO. I have been there exactly once and only went because my cousin bought me a ticket for my birthday, I have no plans of returning anytime soon unless the ticket is free.

Reason I compared it to a cruise is because last year I went on an 8 day eastern Caribbean cruise that left out of Manhattan. Between the ticket price, the train into Grand Central, the cab to the pier, the taxes, the port fees, the fuel fees, the food and the alcohol program it cost me about $550 - plus a couple hundred more for some shore excursions, casino time, cigars, booze, smokes and other stuff you can't get around here.

Originally Posted by BeyondKnight (Post 16391973)

Wait until they announce that next season's motto is "Hockey, Hockey"

Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16392130)

They should sign Cal Clutterbuck and rename the neutral zone as "The Cal-zone"

Originally Posted by barbogast (Post 16392196)

Just heard Bailamos in the Food Lion followed immediately by hearing Hero on the radio in the car

Caps must be playing an important game today

Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16392130)

They should sign Cal Clutterbuck and rename the neutral zone as "The Cal-zone"

Originally Posted by SirBobalew (Post 16392209)

Bailamos? Bailamos.

http://www.russianmachineneverbreaks...ing-rmnb-last/

Originally Posted by TMoore4075 (Post 16392207)

It's funny reading fans get legitimately pissed off over the name of the arena and that they didn't use some historic figure. All of us here don't like it but totally get it and never assume it would be anything other than some corporate name. Would I love it to be like Gordie Howe Arena or something like that? Sure. But what world do you live in that that actually happened recently? Fans need to pull themselves into reality sometimes.

Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16392128)

Little Caesar's Pizzarena

Originally Posted by barbogast (Post 16392233)

I am ready to let the rhythm take me over

Originally Posted by BeyondKnight (Post 16392283)

Fuck your rhythm.

When its time to party we will party hard!

Originally Posted by salrx95 (Post 16392229)

Originally Posted by BeyondKnight (Post 16391973)

Wait until they announce that next season's motto is "Hockey, Hockey"

Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16392130)

They should sign Cal Clutterbuck and rename the neutral zone as "The Cal-zone"

Originally Posted by barbogast (Post 16392285)

Do the Penns have some weird connection to Andrew WK like the Caps do to Enrique Iglesias?

That would be awesome

Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16392290)

I can't think of any pizza puns for De Haan, so I'm not interested in him in Detroit.

Deep Paan...that's a stretch.

Nope. Just Cal.

Originally Posted by BeyondKnight (Post 16392268)

I was secretly hoping Ted Nugent would pony up the $$. Ted Nugent Memorial Arena.

"Pens/Wings tonight at the Nuge! It's gonna be LIT!"