professional sports franchise looking to lame minor league stunts to
boost attendance. This year the horrible 76ers are trying to boost
attendance with one of these lame cultural nights, this one honoring
the Jewish people, a nice sentiment if it wasn't all about the 76ers
trying to profit from it and as @jesusHpls correctly points
out..have't they suffered enough.
The Mets routinely have cultural nights, ones that include Hispanic
night which I guess is designed to honor the players on the field,
Japanese night to honor forgotten heroes like Shinjo and Kaz Matsui,
Chinese night to honor the entire Flushing area, Jewish night to honor
Owner Saul Katz and Fred Wilpon, Catholic night to honor the level of
secrecy and denials of Wilpon and Katz have had which trails only the
Vatican in sleaziness, Cayman Islands night to honor Lenny Dykstra and
Bernie Madoff, African American night to honor Doc and Straw and
Italian night to honor Piazza which coincidentally coincides with the
night they fly a rainbow flag over right field.
All in all it's a ridiculous concept for a professional franchise in a
major sports market like NY or Philadelphia to have to stoop so low to
try to get attendance. Here is a suggestion.. don't move your fences
in, don't be cheap with your free agency money and most importantly,
if you want an attendance boost don't suck
I don't understand why New York City's sports teams all suck except for the Yankees. Perhaps I have mentioned and wondered about that before here.
ReplyDeleteThey don't have to win to make money in NY. Nothing more to it.
ReplyDeleteWin more, make more.
ReplyDeleteExtra revenue from playoff game attendance, concessions, parking, and souvenirs. Increased revenue from local radio broadcasts of games. The NFL has national TV contracts and revenue sharing, but NBA and MLB teams get revenue from local TV and cable contracts for which increased television viewing means more advertising revenue. Increased attendance also justifies higher in-arena and in-stadium prices charged to advertisers.
And in the case of the Mets, a winning team means actually selling out a regular season home game once in a while and making way more money.
It's just poor management to be satisfied with a relatively slim profit margin compared to the massive margin a consistently winning team could generate.