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scottbbfm Major Leaguer

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Weather is one thing...but school and riots are another. The fact is the Orioles make ZERO effort to appeal to the people of Baltimore who live within a few miles of the stadium. Most of them don't have kids. And they already live in Baltimore so they don't care about riots. But there are over 100,000 people who live within a few miles of the park and can regularly make it on a weekday night. Instead the Orioles choose to focus their marketing on a family from southern Pa who might show up for a Sunday game and have their kids run the bases.

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Weather is one thing...but school and riots are another. The fact is the Orioles make ZERO effort to appeal to the people of Baltimore who live within a few miles of the stadium. Most of them don't have kids. And they already live in Baltimore so they don't care about riots. But there are over 100,000 people who live within a few miles of the park and can regularly make it on a weekday night. Instead the Orioles choose to focus their marketing on a family from southern Pa who might show up for a Sunday game and have their kids run the bases.

That's a good point but what do you suggest? They can't offer some special deal to Baltimore city residents. Well they could but it would look bad PR wise as everyone would complain on social media.

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BohKnowsBmore Hangout Grand Counsel

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Weather is one thing...but school and riots are another. The fact is the Orioles make ZERO effort to appeal to the people of Baltimore who live within a few miles of the stadium. Most of them don't have kids. And they already live in Baltimore so they don't care about riots. But there are over 100,000 people who live within a few miles of the park and can regularly make it on a weekday night. Instead the Orioles choose to focus their marketing on a family from southern Pa who might show up for a Sunday game and have their kids run the bases.

How do you suggest that you show they care? Or what are they not doing to attract those people?

I imagine the family from Southern PA takes a bit more coaxing to make the trip. What barrier needs to be removed for people within a few miles?

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Weather is one thing...but school and riots are another. The fact is the Orioles make ZERO effort to appeal to the people of Baltimore who live within a few miles of the stadium. Most of them don't have kids. And they already live in Baltimore so they don't care about riots. But there are over 100,000 people who live within a few miles of the park and can regularly make it on a weekday night. Instead the Orioles choose to focus their marketing on a family from southern Pa who might show up for a Sunday game and have their kids run the bases.

That actually runs counter to your argument. If you're within a few miles of the ballpark, chances are you can either walk so you don't have to drive and pay for parking, or you can take light rail which is cheaper. The family coming from South PA doesn't have that luxury. If you're that close to the ballpark and are already saving on those extra expenditures and the team is doing well, there's not much reason the family from South PA should be going to more games than you.

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Weather is one thing...but school and riots are another. The fact is the Orioles make ZERO effort to appeal to the people of Baltimore who live within a few miles of the stadium. Most of them don't have kids. And they already live in Baltimore so they don't care about riots. But there are over 100,000 people who live within a few miles of the park and can regularly make it on a weekday night. Instead the Orioles choose to focus their marketing on a family from southern Pa who might show up for a Sunday game and have their kids run the bases.

Aside from the billboards, posters, radio-ads, bar specials and being within walking distance of the giant stadium right there - what exactly do they have to do? They have the flight deck, the CF bar, the high-end food, the ability to bring your own food, cozy relationships with local establishments and a massive social media presence. What else should they do?

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Aside from the billboards, posters, radio-ads, bar specials and being within walking distance of the giant stadium right there - what exactly do they have to do? They have the flight deck, the CF bar, the high-end food, the ability to bring your own food, cozy relationships with local establishments and a massive social media presence. What else should they do?

Move to Columbia Maryland.

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Aside from the billboards, posters, radio-ads, bar specials and being within walking distance of the giant stadium right there - what exactly do they have to do? They have the flight deck, the CF bar, the high-end food, the ability to bring your own food, cozy relationships with local establishments and a massive social media presence. What else should they do?

Vote for a more authoritarian government that could compel citizens to attend baseball games more frequently.

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And compel them to support the team of their indigenous geographic area.

...and permit them to toss "high-end" crab cakes at selected "hated franchise players" (namely Yankee, Bosox, KC, TOR, DC, etc.) voluntarily. :mwahaha:

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Nope. Fill us in!

Basically a referendum approved fund was emptied out to help pay for the stadium.

http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2016/06/06/11169/cobb-county-spent-all-its-money-on-braves-stadium-doesnt-have-enough-left-for-public-parks/

In 2008, voters in Cobb County, Georgia, approved a $40 million bond issue to acquire and build new public parks. The money still hasn’t been spent yet, though, because at first it was delayed by the Great Recession (are we still calling it that?) and now by certain other spending priorities:

County officials say only $20 million will be available to buy park land.

Many of those public speakers at the commissioners’ meetings have wondered why the full amount could not be made available through the debt service fund, requiring no tax increase, since the commissioners were able to fund nearly $400 million for the Atlanta Braves to move to Cobb…

Commission Chairman Tim Lee has said a tax increase would now be needed to pay for the $40 million Park Bond 2008.

Keep in mind that tax payers didn't approve a tax increase for the stadium.

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