KK wrong about success of ASG

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by milkman

Back in '79-'80, I was managing a 7-11.

It was about a 35-40 minute drive to get the the games, and I went to about 30-40 games a year.

I had no interest in going anywhere to drink after, because of the drive, and because I had to be at work the next morning at 6am.

These are the people who aren't going to games now.

Why make that drive, or even longer drives, to see a shitty product.

Those downtown patrons aren't going to make that big a difference.

It's the people who have to make the drive that are going to make the difference in attendence.

That's great and all, but 7-11 employees aren't really going to fill up stadiums. If you're going to put three million asses in the seats, you're going to need to get white collar people with expense accounts taking their clients to games, buying them booze, etc.

Businesses buy season tickets. When there is a day game in Saint Louis, half the people there are using company tickets. It's not as appealing to drive out to ****ing Raytown as it is to walk across the street, and it's sure as shit not as appealing to drink Sprite at Denny's afterwards as it is to down Sapphire and tonics on a rooftop bar fifty stories up across the street from Busch Stadium.

It blows my mind that people actually think that the Truman Sports Complex is as good of a place for a baseball stadium as downtown next to the Kauffman Center.

This is why Kansas City has an airport just south of Des Moines, a city council that gets into flame wars with its mayor (even though they belong to the same political party), and schools that can't seem to hang on to their accreditation for longer than a Kardashian can stay married.