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Do you think The Dodgers showed a lack of respect by celebrating their division win by jumping into the Diamondback stadium pool. Some people felt that was uncalled for. Should celebrate in LA.
 
XPOFAN said:
Do you think The Dodgers showed a lack of respect by celebrating their division win by jumping into the Diamondback stadium pool. Some people felt that was uncalled for. Should celebrate in LA.
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Serves the D-Backs right for having a stupid swimming pool in the stadium to begin with. I'll never understand why teams have to fill their stadiums with crap that only encourages people to do things other than watch the actual game they supposedly paid money to come and watch. Going to an MLB game these days involves putting up with nothing but needless distractions. It's like they don't even believe in the entertainment value of their own on-field product. It speaks to the short attention span of people today, I suppose. They can't sit still for 5 minutes. I go to games where people near me spend most of the game somewhere other than in their seats. They might see 3 out of every 9 innings. The rest of the time they're nowhere to be seen. And when they are in their seats they're not watching the game; they're playing with their smartphones. I'll bet half the people who attend games couldn't even tell you who won when it's over. But this is what happens after 40 years of the designated hitter and a decades worth of interleague play. There's no strategy anymore. Managers just fill in the line-up card and take a nap in the dugout. There's nothing for fans to think about while they watch.

The only acceptable swimming pool/ball park combo was the public swimming pool behind the right field fence at Jarry Park that Willie Stargell hit a home run into.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
If it's 55,000 tickets total for the two games then you've got approximately 27,500 tickets sold for each game. That's a pretty good base, I'd say. If they don't sell a single ticket between now and next March 27,500 would still be a great turnout compared to what the Expos were drawing the last few years. It's also far better than the Marlins and Rays are drawing these days I'm sure. And let's remember that the Expos won't be playing; it'll be the Jays and Mets - 2 teams that Montrealers have little affinity for. At this rate the turn-out for this series will be a good one, not that it means anything. I remember going to see the Jays play the Expos at BC Place back in 94 and the place was sold out despite the fact that BC Place is a horrible venue for baseball. But no one ever saw the turn-out as "proof" of Vancouver's viability as a potential MLB market. It was a one-off.
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I don't see it as proof of much, there is a difference between selling tickets for 2 games and selling tickets for 81 games.
 
BKerr said:
I don't see it as proof of much, there is a difference between selling tickets for 2 games and selling tickets for 81 games.
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Frankly they have sold about 50,000 more tickets than I expected so far. I didn't think too may would be interested in this crap even if they were real league games being played.
 
Lotusland said:
Frankly they have sold about 50,000 more tickets than I expected so far. I didn't think too may would be interested in this crap even if they were real league games being played.
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Montreal sports fans are strange, they like novelty but bore very easily. Very fickle. Kind of like how they vote too, come to think of it.
 
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wiseguy1 said:
Montreal sports fans are strange, they like novelty but bore very easily. Very fickle. Kind of like how they vote too, come to think of it.
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They don't bore that easily if they still went to see the habs even though they sucked and they still go to impact games even though you could fall asleep and wake up 50 minutes later and still be in a 0-0 score.

I think it's all about culture. Kids play hockey, and it's engraved in the culture here from childhood. For soccer, all you need is a rock and dirt and you can play a pickup soccer game which they do all over the world and when immigrants come here they just go to the park and kick around a ball. There isn't that much baseball here. I like the sport, and I've played softball, so for me it's interesting. But MLB has like 81 home games, that's a lot of games to make sure you have 20k+ at.
 
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