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Looks comfortable because it'll provide you an escape from the Texas heat. But it does not look like a place you want to watch a ballgame.
Posted on 03/10/2021 6:21:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Last season wasn’t a banner year for the Texas Rangers, but few have been lately. The team won only 22 games on its pandemic-shortened sixty-game schedule and placed last in the American League West division. It was the team’s fourth consecutive campaign with a losing record. The bright side? At least nobody was there to see it, as COVID-19 restrictions meant that the team spent the year striking out in front of cardboard cutouts of fans.
It was far from the sort of inaugural season the team had imagined for its spanking new stadium—for which Arlington taxpayers ponied up $500 million in up-front costs, plus another $300 million in tax incentives. After all, it was built to be filled with fans, and filled with fans it soon shall be. On Wednesday, the Rangers announced their in-person attendance policies for the start of the 2021 season, which include offering all 40,518 seats to potential ticket buyers for two exhibition games on March 29 and 30, as well as for the team’s home opener on April 5. (After that, the team plans to limit capacity and introduce social-distancing in some sections of seats for further games.)
It’s unclear whether the organization somehow believes the virus will behave differently after opening day than it will for the three games at which there will be no attendance cap. In an email to Texas Monthly, John Blake, the team’s executive vice president for communications, said, “The total number [of tickets available after opening day] will depend on demand and can be expanded if needed.” But one question—given the team’s recent performance on the field and its attendance history—looms perhaps larger: Why do the Rangers, who have struggled to attract fans even during a non-pandemic season, insist on attempting to fill their stadium now?
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They may wish to try winning.
Baseball is the only sport that I miss.
Get woke, go broke.
On the field, the Rangers will suck! They've been promising competitiveness in the style of Russian 5 year economic plans.
Trying to build excitement for the completion of the new stadium, they overpromised and underdelivered.
Now they're saying the "plan" is to be competitive in 2022 or 2023.
I'll probably go to a couple of games. They held my son's HS graduation there, and it is a beautiful place to watch a game, away from the Texas summer heat.
Attendance will probably average 15k per game. People will be skittish. It’ll take time for people to become brave enough to attend games again. NBA is a different story though, I think they’ve alienated their white, middle class fan base.
Won't happen, he was the beneficiary of a puff piece in the Dallas Morning News last Sunday.
He's wasting Luka's talents.
I'm not familiar with Dallas but the team might be able to cater to their urban audience which would be mostly blacks and white liberals. But yeah, I think Luka should return to Europe. Make EuroLeague the supreme basketball league in the world. Attract NBA stars to play there.
Not interested.
It takes forever to drive to the ballpark, no public transportation whatsoever, and outrageous parking prices, and bad baseball on top of it.
Pretty much sums it up. The drive isn't as bad as it used to be, but the Express lanes end a few miles short of Arlington.
Unless they are having “Free Beer” days, and $5 sests, good luck with that. There new stadium is hideous!
Looks comfortable because it'll provide you an escape from the Texas heat. But it does not look like a place you want to watch a ballgame.
Astros are doing similar.
Thank you for the information.
I used to love to watch baseball in the pre-woke era.
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