Gauge Londoners' Interest in American Baseball June 2019?
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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'.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Did the strolling hawkers sell chapulines?
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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.