Bump.
Season tickets for Pensacola have sold out. Single-game tickets go on sale March 19 for anyone hoping to catch a game, a series or whatever.
http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp....jsp&sid=t4124
Bump.
Season tickets for Pensacola have sold out. Single-game tickets go on sale March 19 for anyone hoping to catch a game, a series or whatever.
http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp....jsp&sid=t4124
Wow, is this normal with MiLB? Outside of dayton that is.Originally Posted by texasdave
I saw this the other day. I've been on the Pensacola email list for a while now and I have been been checking in on their site periodically. I am very impressed at how they have promoted this team there. Obviously, the community has embraced the upcoming experience. Cincy should be smart and lock this up with an extension.
It got me wondering what the history of Pensacola & minor league baseball have been. They've had an independent league team for the last 10 years, it's been 50 years since they last had an affiliated team and Double A is the highest level they've ever had (previously they had Class B and Class D teams). I suspect folks are starved for this level of baseball.
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In this video it says the highest seat is only 14 rows up from the action. Nice. So everyone is pretty close.
Park is coming along nicely. Stadium walk thru this week.
However, the original stadium designs were designed for Independent Baseball and the field itself is small. To meet Double A standards, the stadium itself had to be moved closer to the Port then originally planned. In April and Early May, its not uncommon for wind gusts to hit between 15 MPH to 30 MPH. Hitters are going to be praying that the winds are coming across the Panhandle and not in from the Gulf. When the humidity kicks in, its going to play like Mobile, Jacksonville, and possibly San Antonio for the rest of the summer.
Last edited by 19braves77; 03-19-2012 at 11:23 AM.
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4,000 seats? Man, that is small.
That would explain part of the reason the season tickets sold out so quickly.... Still, impressive, but less impressive than if most other AA teams did so who have a larger capacity.
4,000 a night is pretty good in the Southern League. 2011 attendance is the first attendance column. Next is 2010 attendance. Then percentage change. And that is 4,000 fixed seats. With party decks and berm seating they say it can hold 5,000. 5,000 a night would be at or near the league lead.Code:1 Jacksonville Suns SL 309,310 70 4,418 5,140 -0.14 2 Tennessee Smokies SL 265,341 67 3,960 3,859 0.03 3 Birmingham Barons SL 261,623 68 3,847 4,180 -0.08 4 Montgomery Biscuits SL 256,403 68 3,770 4,027 -0.06 5 Carolina Mudcats SL 255,216 69 3,698 3,245 0.14 6 Chattanooga Lookouts SL 224,974 66 3,408 3,245 0.05 7 Mobile BayBears SL 210,956 69 3,057 3,053 0.00 8 Mississippi Braves SL 191,653 70 2,737 2,619 0.05 9 Jackson Generals** SL 106,689 65 1,641 1,823 -0.10 10 Huntsville Stars SL 93,340 59 1,582 1,403 0.13
Last edited by texasdave; 03-19-2012 at 07:11 PM.
4000 a night is good attendance, but I was more talking about capacity.
Jacksonville for example, has a capacity of 11,000. Birmingham has a capacity of 10,800. Huntsville of 10,200. A few parks in the league are between 6-7,000.
That is a 50-200+ percentage increase compared to other stadiums in the league.
Here's the problem with that.... Jax has led the Southern League in attendance every year since they built their new stadium in 2003. Stadium capacity is 11,000
We are part of the Weekend Season ticket plan, and it's rare that the Friday and Saturday games don't do over 8,000.
You need a large capacity for those weekend games... otherwise you sell out at 5,000 on the weekends and have 2,000 for the non-weekend.
Here's a list of the Southern League Stadiums. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souther...%28baseball%29
Pensacola will be the smallest by 1,000. They better hope they have Dayton-like enthusiasm. (and they might)
That is a good point. I was in Houston-thinking mode. I was thinking 5,000 a night is nothing. Didn't even stop to consider that Houston is a tad bigger than Pensacola. =)
Original stadium design was going to seat less then 3,500. They couldn't add full berm seating because of the amphitheater which will be in left field which sealed the deal for city. My two season tickets was suppose to be bleacher seating but after a lot of emails I convinced them that they were wasting room. You can fit more box seats in a space then a bleacher plank. They eventually gave in and ripped two sections of bleacher seating out adding another 100 seats. Seriously my email didn't really do anything. In the letter they sent me, they over ordered box seats and couldn't return them. Win for me.
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Bleacher seats..... need to all be ripped out.....
didn't get the job with them, o well...hope to be able to catch a game
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