Larry Beinfest's Future with the Marlins

[Namaste]

Individual games on Stubhub is the way to go. Very inexpensive.

Yup. Almost zero chance I buy season tix next year.

[lou]

Yup. Almost zero chance I buy season tix next year.

Yea, I think they are going to have a pitiful renewal rate, and it won't just be based on the on the field product. I would like to support them even with my modest ticket package (20 games plus opening day for $384, 6th row upper deck in line with 3rd), but besides opening day and the red sox game, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten every other ticket in the $8-10 range and walked to any open section in the ballpark. It's hard to want to buy season tickets when even the cheaper seats are half off elsewhere. Let alone the 60 miles of gas and express lane tolls coming from downtown Fort Lauderdale. At least I didn't get the parking pass too. I pay $5 every game at the same house so that has worked out perfectly.

I think I am going to take 2013 off and just do walk ups, and if they announce the 2015 all star game, I'm sure jump back in for 2014 to get ticket priority or whatever incentive deal they do. MLB will dick them again and give it to Washington I'm sure, so might be a few years of walk ups.

[Party]

The above is why several teams, including the Yankees, are asking MLB to reconsider their deal with SH. Don't count on those types of dealing being there next year.

[Jorge18]

I won't be buying season tickets next year.

[kylekash]

I think renewals are going to be really bad, especially if they team really bombs in the second half of the season. It should be interesting to see how the team responds as far as payroll is concerned if they have a real bad season ticket/attendance year.

I guess as long as the luxury seats and suites are sold that is where the bulk of the money comes from, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them scale back payroll and use attendance as an excuse. I'm hoping they don't, but it wouldn't shock me if they did something like that.

[Miamarlin21]

How is the attendance this year? Has the new car smell worn off and no one shows anymore or is it still going somewhat strong?

[Swifty]

How is the attendance this year? Has the new car smell worn off and no one shows anymore or is it still going somewhat strong?

By new stadium standards, it's setting the "slowest to" or just flat out lowest bench marks by any place that's opened since 2001 (don't remember the year that was used in the recounting I heard). I guess it's encouraging by Marlins standards, but when you have a new place that's yet to sell out for a non opening day game and you're setting every low conceivable (total attendance through first 40 games, slowest to 1 million, lowest %, etc) it's not super encouraging. I'd also say it's not completely discouraging since the team is playing like crap.

[Party]

It's also the smallest ballpark to open since 1969. We're only 7% behind PNC Park which is 7% larger than MP.

[Party]

Smaller ballpark will have a larger percentage of expensive seats than a bigger ballpark.