data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.105147 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Greg Spira)
Subject: Re: Candlestick Park experience (long)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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[email protected] (Craig Eid) writes:
>These things should have been done a long time ago, but it took a real
>businessman (ex - Safeway President Peter Magowan) to figure it out. Just
>like he used to tell his checkers, "If the customers don't come back, I don't
>need as many checkers". This isn't a knock on Bob Lurie - he was a competent
>businessman but he didn't deal much with the general public.
Interesting article, Craig. It's amazing how hard it is to get baseball
teams to understand how to properly market their teams and treat their
customers. No other business could ever get away with the 19th century
attitudes that most current owners display in running their clubs. I guess the
owners look at baseball's high growth rate and ask why it's necessary
to bring 20th century business practices into the game, but they don't
realize how much more growth the game is capable of and how much they
pay in terms of long-term popularity by not doing better by the game
and its fans.
Greg