Taking Attendance: A Cubs Cautionary Tale
The Cubs have a dilemma: a bad team and too-high ticket prices. How can they lure people back to the ballpark?
The Cubs have a dilemma: a bad team and too-high ticket prices. How can they lure people back to the ballpark?
Ticket prices -- some up, some down, some stay the same.
Some analysis and discussion of how the current financial crisis affects baseball teams.
That's what the Giants are going to do in 2009: Team president Larry Baer calls it "dynamic pricing" and figures it might just become the way of the future for professional sports franchises....
An update on the upcoming sale of the Cubs and some information on ticket prices for 2009.
Every year, the Team Marketing Report calculates their "Fan Cost Index", calculated as the total of: two adult tickets at the average price, two child tickets at the average if available, two...