Gauge Londoners' Interest in American Baseball June 2019?
Dec 6, 2018, 12:42 pm
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Yes, it looks terrible. Remember that Americans never found a way to build a stadium with good sightlines for baseball and (American) football, despite having had decades to perfect. This is a venue that was never intended to host a baseball game in the first place.
Dec 7, 2018, 3:18 am
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Expanding the supporters network to generate interest and publicity and then a market they can exploit. No doubt it will be picked up for TV broadcast. The NFL games at Wembley were shown live on the BBC. I have British friends who go to these matches on a regular basis
Dec 7, 2018, 4:01 am
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1m which for it's late night time slot is a good audience.
Yet somehow the NFL are bringing more games to the UK so they obviously see some benefit to doing it even if it not primarily a money earner
Yet somehow the NFL are bringing more games to the UK so they obviously see some benefit to doing it even if it not primarily a money earner
Dec 7, 2018, 4:08 am
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Even the most exciting baseball games have long stretches of absolutely nothing happening, translating potentially into periods of extreme boredom for viewers. The difference in the US + Toronto is that the crowd makes its own atmosphere, which is probably not going to happen in London. At those prices and in the middle of Wimbledon, forget it.
Dec 7, 2018, 5:18 am
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Even the most exciting baseball games have long stretches of absolutely nothing happening, translating potentially into periods of extreme boredom for viewers. The difference in the US + Toronto is that the crowd makes its own atmosphere, which is probably not going to happen in London. At those prices and in the middle of Wimbledon, forget it.
Dec 7, 2018, 5:22 am
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I was at a Blue Jays game in the summer where they were down something like 7-2 by the third inning, and by the sixth people started drifting home. They came back to win it 9-7 or something like that with some unbelievable plays in the last innings. That was exciting and unexpected. But there was a lot of nothing going on, helped only by poor and expensive 'beer'.
Dec 7, 2018, 5:59 am
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I was at a Blue Jays game in the summer where they were down something like 7-2 by the third inning, and by the sixth people started drifting home. They came back to win it 9-7 or something like that with some unbelievable plays in the last innings. That was exciting and unexpected. But there was a lot of nothing going on, helped only by poor and expensive 'beer'.
Dec 7, 2018, 6:52 am
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Dec 7, 2018, 4:19 pm
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Creemore sucks since they sold out to Molson and put their beer into LCBO standard bottles. I swear it does not taste the same that it did in the early 1990s!
Dec 9, 2018, 2:11 am
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Yikes! Those ticket prices are something else.
I'm back to Japan next Easter. The flights cost nearly the same (around £360) and once there I could go see the Tokyo Giants for between £10 and £40. Have been outside stadiums where baseball is being played a few times, I know full well that the atmosphere inside must be electric.
My father-in-law is moderately keen and usually has a baseball game or two on the TV during one of our Tokyo visits, I just can't get excited.
I'm back to Japan next Easter. The flights cost nearly the same (around £360) and once there I could go see the Tokyo Giants for between £10 and £40. Have been outside stadiums where baseball is being played a few times, I know full well that the atmosphere inside must be electric.
My father-in-law is moderately keen and usually has a baseball game or two on the TV during one of our Tokyo visits, I just can't get excited.
Dec 10, 2018, 10:01 pm
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I'm thinking about flying over for a game. Last year I went to Monterey, Mexico which has been hosting a weekend series off and on for the last twenty years. Enthusiasm there was really high and it was a lot of fun watching the local traditions interspersed with standard baseball traditions during the game.
Dec 11, 2018, 11:41 am
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I'm back to Japan next Easter. The flights cost nearly the same (around £360) and once there I could go see the Tokyo Giants for between £10 and £40. Have been outside stadiums where baseball is being played a few times, I know full well that the atmosphere inside must be electric.
Dec 11, 2018, 12:02 pm
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Did the strolling hawkers sell chapulines?
Dec 11, 2018, 3:03 pm
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I’ll go eventually. But this thread has shown me that I’ll likely be losing my baseball virginity in Japan and not in London.