Average attendance 38,036

[Jay]

1 hour ago, Stradling said:

this will boost attendance.  17 games for $49.  

That's more like it

 

[Jobu]

50 minutes ago, Jay said:

That's more like it

 

You could probably splurge on a beer and not even feel bad about it!

[Lou]

 who gives a sh*t? 

[John Stellman]

The Angel have already sold enough season tickets to guarantee another 3+M in attendance.  So there goes Arte, laughing his way all the way to the bank.

[ScottT]

Arte needs to average 32,110 over the last 11 home games to get to his precious 3 million.  

Monday: 29,932

Tuesday: 32,139

(yeah, right)

[kevinb]

If any one has been to a game this year. You know it's barely half full. These are tickets bought. People are barely going to games. I've said this before but I went to game 2 against the Cubs and the stadium was barely half full. Season ticket numbers will be down next year. 

[Troll Daddy]

7 minutes ago, Kevinb said:

If any one has been to a game this year. You know it's barely half full. These are tickets bought. People are barely going to games. I've said this before but I went to game 2 against the Cubs and the stadium was barely half full. Season ticket numbers will be down next year. 

They say that every year.

[Blarg]

On 6/17/2016 at 2:31 PM, Lou said:

 who gives a sh*t? 

I think this covers most all of Kevinb posts. 

[ScottT]

They fudge on tickets bought.  They sell 17 tickets for $49. They will clear the magic number, once again, by very little.  How convenient.  17k season tickets.... +12-15k more for these games?   I'm skeptical. 

[AngelsLakersFan]

49 minutes ago, Troll Daddy said:

They say that every year.

Well I guess they were finally right..

[Troll Daddy]

11 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

Well I guess they were finally right..

Right about what? I was talking about season ticket sales. 

[ScottT]

Season ticket sales are roughly half of what they were at the peak... when they actually capped sales.  

[Ohtaniland]

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 6/14/2016 at 5:12 PM, John Stellman said:

The American League counts total tickets sold regardless.  The National League counts only those people actually in attendance.  Go figure.

Designated sitters

[Jay]

I guess being able to say "3 million fans" affects your ad revenue in some way. Why else would it be important?

[Ohtaniland]

This is all BS knowing that some of their biggest fans have moved to Seattle, Montana and New Hampshire. 

[Jobu]

I think 3M is the threshold for having to revenue share with the city.

[Ohtaniland]

7 minutes ago, Jobu said:

I think 3M is the threshold for having to revenue share with the city.

Here's the funny part, Arte has to share a portion of the parking revenue with the city when it reaches a certain threshold. Arte keeps all of the ticket revenue so if they sell 3M tickets and the fans don't show up the parking lot is empty and the city gets nothing. 

[Jobu]

No, the funny part is how the Angels seem to think an effective way to prove how valuable they are to the city is by providing as little value as contractually possible. 

[ELEVEN]

50 minutes ago, hangin n wangin said:

I went to one game at the beginning of the year when they weren't a million games under .500. I haven't felt the urge to go since then.

Dude, see a doctor!

[Stradling]

1 hour ago, CALZONE said:

Here's the funny part, Arte has to share a portion of the parking revenue with the city when it reaches a certain threshold. Arte keeps all of the ticket revenue so if they sell 3M tickets and the fans don't show up the parking lot is empty and the city gets nothing. 

The real funny part is Arte may be selling that many tickets, but in reality since the team isn't competitive there are less fans actually attending the games.  Since that is the case he is missing out on a ton of revenue in merchandise, and concessions.  

[eligrba]

On 6/15/2016 at 6:36 AM, Jay said:

$4.50 for a 50-cent beer, money well spent.

 

Could rename it Pujols.

[stormngt]

what would the motive be in cooking the attendance?

show that your making more money so you can pay more in taxes?

[yk9001]

Perhaps the fees for the billboards and ribbon boards are correlated to the attendance.

[Ohtaniland]

41 minutes ago, Stradling said:

The real funny part is Arte may be selling that many tickets, but in reality since the team isn't competitive there are less fans actually attending the games.  Since that is the case he is missing out on a ton of revenue in merchandise, and concessions.  

He's still doing better than most owners of professional sports franchises. He's got Mike Trout, 3M tickets sold, the rally monkey and he pays no rent. When the attendance is down they don't open all of the concessions stands so they save money on labor. As far as merchandise, Arte gets profit from any Angels MLB licensed related products sold worldwide. Arte did real well when he signed Matsui because the Japanese fans in Japan and here were buying up all his jerseys. Arte is doing just fine.