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XPOFAN
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Obviously, someone who doesn't know much about baseball
I also query how it helps the cause of baseball in Montreal if the stands in March are full of fans from New England who won't be season's tickets holders.
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They also have more Super Bowls than erudite Cowboys or Patriots fans.
the team does, not the fans. We as fans do not have 24 cups, the team we cheer for has.
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Natural rivalries with Toronto and Boston, coupled with the ability of the Yankees to draw in every city would take up a good chunk of the schedule so they'd only have trouble selling tickets to games against the Clevelands and Oaklands.
can you build a franchise solely on the hope road fans will your stadium?
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No, but those 3 teams can probably give enough to make the difference between no team and having enough fans to support a team.
just say you play 9 home games a year against each and you get 10000 road fans each, that is 27 games times 10,000. 270,000 tickets sold to road fans. There are still 44 other home games without the road fans where you start at 0.
In order to be a successful team now, you generally need to have 2 million fans. Do you think there are enough baseball fans in Montreal to buy up 1,7 million tickets on a yearly basis? It also depends on price point. Right now the dollar is low. So they need to increase price by 35% just to be sold at the same cost as an American based team. Will Montrealers pay say 100 for a baseball game consistently? That is the 64 million dollar question.
In order to be a successful team now, you generally need to have 2 million fans. Do you think there are enough baseball fans in Montreal to buy up 1,7 million tickets on a yearly basis? It also depends on price point. Right now the dollar is low. So they need to increase price by 35% just to be sold at the same cost as an American based team. Will Montrealers pay say 100 for a baseball game consistently? That is the 64 million dollar question.
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The fans are there but any team would need to be well-run and have people in the front office who understand the market. You can't just parachute in a bunch of Americans to run the thing as if it were in Pittsburgh or Kansas City.
There is hope of course. SF Giants used to have bad attendance in the 1970s, almost moved to Toronto. Then when they didn't win, attendance at Candlestick was bad. Now they have about 400 straight sellouts. Granted they are also a mini dynasty having won 3 of last 5 WS. However, no way a park in Montreal will ever have the sightlines and views like AT&T or even Petco. Maybe if Montreal is lucky, it will be like US Cellular.
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It could be as cold once the sun goes down as AT&T Park is. And it could certainly have good sightlines since it would be a baseball specific facility. The view of the neighbourhood from inside the stadium I could care less about.
By sightlines I meant view from the park. At&T is not nearly as cold as Candlestick.
Sal_Butera
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Sure about that? Put a baseball park in the Old Port, and no city in Canada or US can match those sight lines, and ambiance...none.
I know u already know this Count, but the Giants park was privately financed by Safeway and others In the mid-90s.
Question is whether Bell, and others would be willing to team up, and lead the way to do so....
Wouldn't the fans have to look out toward the river as if the stadium faced toward the mountain, the sunsets would be nice but the sun would also be right in the batters eyes?
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Both Jarry Park and the Big O had the diamond configured so that dead centre field was toward the northeast (northeast in terms of what one would consider street direction in Montreal, not northeast on the compass)
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