Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
November 29, 2006
Rays in Orlando?

The Devil Rays are thinking about playing a series in Orlando this season:

Efforts to move the May 15-17 games against Texas from St. Petersburg to Orlando are in the early stages. Still to be dealt with are approvals from Major League Baseball, the players union, the city of St. Petersburg, and the umpires, but the deal could be completed in the next couple of weeks.

I assume they would use the facility at Disney World, which is a minor league ballpark. There's 9500 seats there, so Tampa Bay isn't going to help attendance by playing three games there (but they won't hurt it much, either). The goal is to build a new fan base, however, so maybe it's worth a try. I suppose it's better to play to a packed 10,000 people than to an empty dome with the same 10,000.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:57 AM | Stadiums | TrackBack (0)
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It'd be odd if they couldn't bring in enough temp seats to have $15K+. I doubt if the field would be up to major league standards either.

I think it'd be better if TB ran some sort of $1-7 ticket promotion for the series and filled the Dome...some of those fans would return, and it would at least create some excitement.

Posted by: Al at November 30, 2006 11:40 AM

Oh i think 9500 seats is more than they could ever fill. I have been in Tampa for Boston games that draw less than that. I think it could only help since tourists may go to the games who don't live near major league cities

Posted by: Ethan at November 30, 2006 01:25 PM
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