Looks like some other teams need to lower ticket prices as well

[cboy4]

Six games tonight where the home team played before less than half of capacity.

And half of those games were played with 75 percent of the stadium empty.


CINCINNATI...............9,878 (23%)
BALTIMORE................11,857 (25%)
TEXAS....................12,627 (25%)
KANSAS CITY..............15,191 (40%)**
ATLANTA..................18,121 (36%)
MINNESOTA................18,974 (41%)


**Kansas City's 40 percent figure is a little deceptive because beautiful Kauffman Stadium is a small park.

[MrSlayer]

1. I think the Phillies have sold out every game this year so far.

Of course, winning a Championship helps but even before that they sold out most of their games at the new park. It's a tough seat.

[cboy4]

2. Actually they have not, which is surprising.

They're still a very good third in baseball attendance averaging 42,028 .. but there have been empty seats.

April 22 vs Milwaukee.........32,759 (75% of capacity)
April 23 vs Milwaukee.........36,395 (83% of capacity)

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/schedule?team=phi

A couple other games they were at about 95%.

So the season is not sold out as you would expect coming off a WS win.




The Giants drew 97 percent of capacity the year after they went to the WS in 2002.

[MrSlayer]

3. I think it was raining those two particular nights.

Hurts the walk up crowd. They do very well overall.

[cboy4]

4. Maybe, but it's usually 55 degrees in San Francisco

during the summer at game time.

The fans still came.

But yes, the Phillies do draw very well.

[MrSlayer]

5. I've been told the best weather out there is in November.

Is that so? I have to get out there some day. I wanted to go out for the last Eagle game there but had work conflicts.

[cboy4]

6. Yea, the best weather is in October and November ,, it's

known as an Indian summer.

You know the famous Mark Twain quote: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

The running joke around here is that it's warmer during the first half of the 49ers season than it is for the Giants .. especially when they played at Candlestick Park.

The wind is MUCH worse there than it is at the new stadium.

Here's an interesting explanation:
Why Pacbell Park isn't Too Windy: A UC Davis Expert Saved the Game

BACKGROUND: In July 1995 the officials of the San Francisco Giants baseball team asked White, a professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering and an authority on Bay Area winds, to evaluate their plans for a new waterfront stadium in San Francisco. He reviewed the stadium design and made suggestions about reducing wind problems. Then he tested scale models of two designs for the park -- the original plan and a modified plan, based on his suggestions. He gave the Giants a startling answer: Either design would be much windier than the team's existing home at Candlestick Park, which was widely despised for its wind problems. But White also provided the solution: rotate the second of the stadium designs 90 degrees. That's just what the builders did.

White has also used wind tunnels and scale models to study urban air pollution, San Francisco skyscrapers, and sandstorms on California's dry Owens Lake and on the planet Mars.

The UC Davis wind tunnel has a fan that is 8 feet wide and powered by a 75-horsepower motor. It can produce wind speeds up to 20 miles per hour. The PacBell scale model is built at a scale of 1 to 600, so one inch equals 50 feet. The model is approximately 4 inches tall and 18 inches wide.

Wind speeds in the scale model are measured by "hot-wire anemometers," small heated wires, attached to a probe system, that are cooled by airflow over them.

http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=5039

[MrSlayer]

7. That's pretty cool.

Would have been nice if the Eagles consulted someeone like that before building The Linc. Good article.

[cboy4]

8. But you know what's crazy? You can leave your house about

an hour away in Fairfield where it's 90 degrees, and the temperature can easily drop 40 degrees in the middle of summer as you get closer to the ocean! :crazy:

So...the SOP is you generally bundle up just in case!