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Saturday, November 12, 2005 |
A's To Close Third Deck?
Ken Arneson points out the apparent implementation of that which, so far, has only been conjecture: the A's will close the third deck next year, this to create artificial scarcity. Capacity would then be 34,179, opposite the 50,000 with the third deck. As it is, season tickets are only being sold in lower levels. Smaller capacity is all the rage in baseball, as teams with older stadia refuse to expand them (or expand them in minimal ways), or teams with larger stadia trade them in for smaller ones (as with the proposed new Yankee Stadium). Personally, I think it's a suicide pact; if you price tickets out of reach, you'll lose the next generation of fans eventually. However, if you believe in this upside-down metric, once again Arte and the Angels' 45,000-seat Angels Stadium is ahead of 55,000-seat Dodgers Stadium.
Comments:
well, with the dodgers and angels drawing around 3 and a half million fans every year, creating scarcity isn't much of a problem. in the coliseum though, there's almost always an open seat to be found, with a small market and a stadium that seats 50,000. when seats are going for just a couple of bucks, it makes sense to try and create a LITTLE scarcity, anyway. we'll see if it actually works and doesn't alienate too many A's fans.
I don't think prices will be out of reach. Lew Wolff has stated about the new stadium that you have to have some low-priced seats somewhere. In the case of the Coliseum, there will still be the bleachers, which were/are cheaper than the third deck. Usually, they won't be sold out. Sometimes, they will, which means if you really want to go, you have to buy the tickets in advance, which is the whole point of this exercise.
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