Go to a baseball game? Don't waste your time or cash!

wejo wrote:

First Baser wrote:

The best bit was slugging down a few beers and making some banter with some ladies who also wished they hadn't gone.

Sounds like you could have had a good time.

I've got Rangers - Mariners tickets for tonight Thursday. I'm not joking, if you're interested in going email me as I didn't realize I had them until last night.

If Rangers want to get wildcard we can lose max 2-3 more games this season.

wejo@letsrun.com

If you accept my ticket offer, please buy me a beer.

Thanks a lot wejo, that's mighty kind but don't think I'll be going back.

However, you may be right, perhaps I did have more fun than I realised in hindsight and it's more to do with the people as opposed to the 'sport'!

well wrote:

Baseball gal wrote:

I'm actually looking for someone who is interesting in going to a game...

Tell me more...

I like going to a baseball game vs the football games--sort of like watching a professional Boston or New York marathon vs a professional Track and Field event, no?

In all honesty, I think going to a baseball game is a great date night b/c you can actually talk w/one another, enjoy the evening stars and actually cheer for your home team..sure you can enjoy a brewski, eat peanuts and just be yourself..dang, you would think I was at the ball park right now...🍺⚾️💅🏻

If you spoke to one woman and drank one beer -that is is the equivalent to getting laid here , every night for a fortnight !

sounds like a track meet

a few minutes of action with long periods of sitting around waiting for something to happen.

wejo wrote:

First Baser wrote:

The best bit was slugging down a few beers and making some banter with some ladies who also wished they hadn't gone.

Sounds like you could have had a good time.

I've got Rangers - Mariners tickets for tonight Thursday. I'm not joking, if you're interested in going email me as I didn't realize I had them until last night.

If Rangers want to get wildcard we can lose max 2-3 more games this season.

wejo@letsrun.com

If you accept my ticket offer, please buy me a beer.

I always see the best Letsrun posts a day too late, smh. A rangers game with wejo would have been epic

Baseball is the only sport that I enjoy watching significantly more in person. I also do my own score card while I'm there sometimes.

First Baser wrote:

I was in San Francisco for work and had a bit of time so went along to the baseball as suggested by some colleagues.

It was quite honestly the most boring experience of my life - nothing happens and they barely ever even hit the ball never mind a home run.

The best bit was slugging down a few beers and making some banter with some ladies who also wished they hadn't gone.

So my advice to anyone thinking of going to a baseball game, is don't bother!

First baser left stranded wrote:

Over 73 million attended a baseball game last year. How does that compare to track?

World wide? I bet more went to track meets.

Baseball- the sport where half the time you stand around and do nothing and the other half you sit around and do nothing.

Seriously? We have a Double A Team that is lucky to get 1500 a game and their attendance was up this year.

Im a season Ticket Holder for the Dbacks.

You are right if your talking about last year..

This year and playing in the Wildcard game, this season has been almost as exciting as watching the Coyotes hockey team.

Im a STH for the Coyotes too.

There is NOTHING more exciting than NHL hockey.

The Dbacks have come close this year.

runn wrote:

First baser left stranded wrote:

Over 73 million attended a baseball game last year. How does that compare to track?

World wide? I bet more went to track meets.

Baseball- the sport where half the time you stand around and do nothing and the other half you sit around and do nothing.

Seriously? We have a Double A Team that is lucky to get 1500 a game and their attendance was up this year.

I'd like to see the math behind your bet that more than 73 million people went to track meets. And paid to do so. If you count parents and participants you need to do the same for all the little league games.

runn wrote:

First baser left stranded wrote:

Over 73 million attended a baseball game last year. How does that compare to track?

World wide? I bet more went to track meets.

Baseball- the sport where half the time you stand around and do nothing and the other half you sit around and do nothing.

Seriously? We have a Double A Team that is lucky to get 1500 a game and their attendance was up this year.

Should be easy enough for you to look up if you're so sure track drew more. I hope you're not including parents watching their kids, but I'll even give you that if it makes you happy.

Oh, and my 73 million was for major league only. Minor league adds another 37 million.

@runn wrote:

runn wrote:

World wide? I bet more went to track meets.

Baseball- the sport where half the time you stand around and do nothing and the other half you sit around and do nothing.

Seriously? We have a Double A Team that is lucky to get 1500 a game and their attendance was up this year.

Should be easy enough for you to look up if you're so sure track drew more. I hope you're not including parents watching their kids, but I'll even give you that if it makes you happy.

Oh, and my 73 million was for major league only. Minor league adds another 37 million.

And if you're talking about world wide attendance you have to add the pro baseball leagues in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Oz, Mexico, Venezuela, and the Caribbean. Then there's TV. If track was getting a quarter of the revenue from TV that baseball gets the sport would be rolling in cash. Obviously loads more people are watching baseball on TV than they are any form of athletics.

"And paid to do so. If you count parents and participants you need to do the same for all the little league games."

Excellent point!

baseball's not the most exciting game to attend and nowadays you have to listen to constant blasting music between at bats and innings, and walk through about a mile of food and trinket vendors after the parking lot to get to the seats. you want to pick your spots so that you go only when it means something and don't necessarily stay all that long. baseball's much more fun to listen to on the radio or to think about (=sabermetrics/baseball stories).

Of the two, Coors Field sounds 1000x better to me. Drinking beer, enjoying the sunshine and cheap tickets. Who cares much about the millionaires down on the field? They don't care about you.

hemfaulk wrote:

baseball's much more fun to listen to on the radio.

One reason I still have XM radio in the car is to hear the local guys calling the game. Sadly there are not many Mel Allen's left- guys that could describe the game so you can 'see' a vivid imagination.

And like another poster, I do keep a scorecard. It is interesting to look back years later at the names that had a great game but are never remembered and the names that end up in Cooperstown that went 0-4 with an E that day. There is proof that I witnessed Cal Ripken during his streak, not so much for seeing Edwin Moses in his.

I'm just talking world wide- track is an international sport.

Take every track meet in the world all year.

You added the paid thing after you realized I was could be correct.

My point is- look at the stadiums on TV- many have empty seats- it wasn't that way 30 or so years ago.

Baseball is not dying, I love it, I played it, my brother played minor league.

But, it's not what it used to be and attendance shows that.

If you didn't enjoy baseball at arguably the most aesthetically pleasing park in the world, you should try an A's game in across the Bay in Oakland. You'll think you died and went to Hell.FYI--talking to a girl in NOT first base. Try again, scrawny loner.

First Baser wrote:

I was in San Francisco for work and had a bit of time so went along to the baseball as suggested by some colleagues.

It was quite honestly the most boring experience of my life - nothing happens and they barely ever even hit the ball never mind a home run.

The best bit was slugging down a few beers and making some banter with some ladies who also wished they hadn't gone.

So my advice to anyone thinking of going to a baseball game, is don't bother!

klp wrote:

Im a season Ticket Holder for the Dbacks.

You are right if your talking about last year..

This year and playing in the Wildcard game, this season has been almost as exciting as watching the Coyotes hockey team.

Im a STH for the Coyotes too.

There is NOTHING more exciting than NHL hockey.

The Dbacks have come close this year.

I like baseball so I'm not criticising the sport, but isn't having a season ticket a massive commitment?

They play so many games in a season. I take it you only go to so many of them.

runn wrote:

I'm just talking world wide- track is an international sport.

Take every track meet in the world all year.

You added the paid thing after you realized I was could be correct.

My point is- look at the stadiums on TV- many have empty seats- it wasn't that way 30 or so years ago.

Baseball is not dying, I love it, I played it, my brother played minor league.

But, it's not what it used to be and attendance shows that.

You're wrong no matter how you try and revise the metrics. Let it go.