Will post more about the incredible Nationals Park and my experience at Opening Night very soon, but something strange popped out in the box score:
Attendance: 39,389 (95.6% full)
There were scattered singles that I saw, but not nearly empty rows or anything like that. And just for the hell of it, I went on tickets.com today and was able to get two tickets together for the game tonight up until about 3:30 and then you could only get scattered singles. This was because the Nats gradually released the premium seats that they were holding for last-minute season ticket purchasers.
But really? 1,000 people stayed home tonight? Hard to believe, and does not necessarily bode well or look good. Although given that tickets were going for twenty times value on Stubhub, I really think that this 1,000 tickets represented the scattered singles and some of the super premium seats that the Nats held back.
March 30, 2008
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No comment. It's a long season and I'm going to let the diehard fans enjoy their new stadium for a couple months before I return to my predictions of franchise failure.
Jeremy, I make one or two trips a year back to the Navy Yard in SE. Could it be some reluctance to visit a neighborhood that doesn't have the best of reputations? Granted, its getting the "gentrified" buzz but old habits die hard. Or, possibly a Metro learning curve that the outlanders need to overcome? Nice win, btw.
For whatever its worth: PetCo Park here in downtown San Diego is a joke. And yes, I say this as a Dodger fan. An over-promised, under-delivering venue just the same.
The weather wasn't all that great last night, which could account for some of it. But I've never really understood buying a ticket to a sports event and then not showing up.
Now I'm confused. Are we saying it wasn't sold out, or are we saying people didn't use their tickets?
Either way, I don't think fear of the neighborhood or the metro would be an explanation.
The primary explanation is because the Nats stupidly held on to tickets until the very last minute because they were convinced that people who hadn't bought season tickets over the past 13 month buildup for the new ballpark were going to flock to their ticket offices on the Saturday immediately before the game and buy season tickets. If the Nats had opted to not hold onto those seats for last night and sold them to the public, they would've been snatched up and it would've been a sellout. The people sitting next to me paid four times face on Stubhub, my buddy from law school paid six times face on Stubhub. It was Nationals franchise stubbornness that led to the place not being full.
No, It's because that is the PAID attendance. The remainder of the tickets were for VIP's, MLB, etc...
It was a sell out and every seat was filled.
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