Where's the outrage?
Sure Manny gets headlines but Kuroda also said today he may retire after his contract is up this year. My hunch, the big story will be how the Dodgers are handling the series with the Yankees.
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Sounds about right
The Dodgers have a prime opportunity to milk that series for all its worth. It wouldn’t surprise me if they sold standing room only tickets to that series as well to bring in add’l sales.
I’m not sure where they could have standing room and still be within the fire code. Behind the bullpens maybe?
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I was thinking they might release a couple thousand SRO tickets and just roam the halls while watching the game. Then again, the halls are already busy enough during the games that are not completely sold out…. Just thinking that they would try to hit 60,000 in attendance and then pimp that number out the remainder of the season.
Nice concluding sentence.
Hopefully the advertising for that won’t sink to the levels of the Clippers years back when they would run advertisements focused on the stars of the opponents coming to visit with no mention of a Clipper player.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I don't know about the Clippers
but the Warriors try to package in the Lakers’ games to try and get people to other, less popular games.
No more raining on Bruins Nation's rainy parade, they took their ball and went home.
by S Jay Bruin on Feb 23, 2010 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
Not really. Haven’t you noticed the advertisements all over Los Angeles where they are pimping the Yankees versus Dodgers series as a “rivalry renewed.” If you notice on the ad it says that the point is they want you to buy a ticket package. Meaning they are selling you on the Dodgers/Yankees game which will sell out, and I’m guessing the package will include games against the Astros or something.
It’s just good business for teams like the Warriors and the Clippers to try to try to parlay the excitement of Lebron coming to town into additional tickets.
by Michael White on Feb 24, 2010 8:27 AM PST up reply actions
Nope
never seen one. Then again, I haven’t been around LA in awhile.
by Julio Nievas on Feb 24, 2010 10:04 AM PST up reply actions
There are, and have been for awhile, existing mini-plans, the smallest being 14 games, that include a Yankee game. Personally, I’m too cheap to pay a premium just because the Yankees are in town. Plus the only rivalry I consider the Dodgers and Yankees having is a World Series rivalry. The interleague series this year will be a little more fun and interesting than the average series, but not enough that I want to pay more.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Feb 24, 2010 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
I heard that on ESPN radio
that it will be a 14 game package deal. Which I probably would have done if I lived in SoCal, but will probably have to take in another series or two this year.
No more raining on Bruins Nation's rainy parade, they took their ball and went home.
by S Jay Bruin on Feb 24, 2010 12:38 PM PST up reply actions
Yep, the Yankees tickets are only available as part of a 14-, 21-, or 28-game plan.
by Eric Stephen on Feb 24, 2010 3:10 PM PST up reply actions
Did thus
forget the incredible atmosphere at the Ravine in 2004 when the Yankee’s came to town?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
In June 2004 I was not yet sufficiently recovered from my Fox Toxic Poisoning to be paying enough attention to notice. I don’t recall even watching those games on TV. It’s a regular-season game. A Dodgers-Yankees game in the World Series is something to get amped up for. Is a Dodgers-Yankees regular-season game more meaningful than a Dodgers-Giants game, or any other NL West opponent?
Or maybe I’m just the fox looking up at the bunch of grapes that is out of my reach.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I agree with you. I find it no more compelling to play the Yankees than I would the Rockies. But I pretty much hate interleague play altogether anyway.
Think about the requirement to buy 14 other games this way, it should have the effect of making the crowd much more filled with Dodger fans. The Yankee bandwagon fans are less likely to buy tickets if they have to buy 13 other tickets.
by Michael White on Feb 24, 2010 4:53 PM PST up reply actions
Easy to disagree
since neither of you were evidently at the games in 2004. If you were I think you’d be singing a different tune. The atmosphere was electric.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I'm with Phil
putting True Blue at 2-2 :)
I only watched those games on TV, but Gagne shutting down the heart of the Yankee order was amazing. I could feel the atmosphere through my TV screen.
by Eric Stephen on Feb 24, 2010 6:00 PM PST up reply actions
Perhaps I am letting my intellectual side rule over my emotional side on this topic. The former thinks it’s just a bunch of hype and discounts the fact that the Yankees are the most storied franchise in baseball.
Eric’s specific example hinges a lot on the game situation. At that point, would the atmospshere have been all that different if instead of ARod, Giambi, Sheffield, Posada, and Matsui, then, it was Rollins, Utley, Howard, Werth, and Ibanez today? Was it the team of the quality of hitters that needed to be faced in that tight situation? (Of course, the odds of being in that situation are greatly increased with a loaded team like the Yankees in the house.)
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Don't know but
of all Gagne’ s saves, that one seemed to be the biggest. It felt like we’d just won a playoff game and considering at the point we hadn’t won a playoff game since 1988 maybe it was.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
by Phil Gurnee on Feb 24, 2010 10:57 PM PST up reply actions
I was there
I had never been to a regular season game with that kind energy before. The ‘09 clincher against the Rockies may have topped it since, but the circumstances were obviously very different. It’s a catch-22 with me- I hate Interleague overall for a number of reasons, but I can’t lie about the fact that Manny going back to Fenway and the World Champs coming here to face Torre & Mattingly’s team are two of the biggest things I’m looking forward to right now for this season. (Would’ve been better if it’d happened at the end of LAST year, but I’ll take it.)
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