NObody likes baseball, so no, you can’t draw 30K a night. god no. look at the yankees. nobody goes to those games, not when they have broadway and expensive dining everhwyere you look.
but plenty of baseball teams don’t sell out 81 home dates, and aren’t losing cash. Baseball is more affordable. ti’s still expensive to go to a game, get a good seat and pay obscnee prices for food and drink, but basbeall has more inventive than other sports to discount and promote tciket sales during its season. and you’ll get into an As game far cheaper than you’lle ver get into a golden nights game. baseball will be just fine. some people actually enjoy going to a baseball game.
So these 400,000 incremental visitors per year will be about 5,000 incremental people per home game, meaning the other 30,000 stadium seats will be sold to locals? That’s very optimistic. Not gonna happen.
]]>There’s a reason you don’t use quotation marks when you’re actually paraphrasing something: if you’ve gotten the meaning wrong, people know to double-check the source.
What this article (and its source) actually says is “analysts say the ballpark will draw about ‘400,000 incremental visitors annually to Las Vegas.'”
The key word here being *incremental*; 400k incrementally visitors annually means that the presence of the team/ballpark alone will bring that many additional guests to the city that would not have otherwise come.