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Originally Posted by locolife
30,000 a game means 2.4M people attend for the season which is almost every person in the CSA going one time. I'm sure the first few years would be amazing, what happens 10 years in especially if it's a struggle to compete with the Dodgers/Giants/Yankees of the league? That attendance being consistent while a team is competing with UofU and BYU football starting in late August each year and the Jazz each spring, assuming the Jazz make playoff runs into May potentially. You've also got Real Salt Lake in the summer months of course. Summer vacation season, where families love to head up to the mountains while kids are out of school. If they're good I'm sure attendance will be great, if not I'm not so sure.
How will matinee games draw at 1pm on a 96-100 degree SLC summer day? Just some real life implications to think about, I live in a very saturated sports market now, just warning not to ruin a good thing by adding too much of it. Every new sport will pull away from the others.
I have no control over what will happen but would hate to see NHL and MLB come to town and be a negative impact on the great game day energy and potentially competitiveness of the Jazz, Utes, etc..
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This post is kind of a mess to be honest.
To start, your first comment is illogical. Any assumption that, to hit that number, it would require every person in the CSA to attend once is ... just weird. It discounts multiple things like:
1. Season ticket holders who will routinely attend multiple times a season.
2. Non-season ticket holders who will routinely attend multiple times a season.
3. Interested people from outside the Salt Lake area who might be interested in watching a MLB game now that it's in close proximity - including residents in Nevada, Southern Idaho and Western Wyoming.
4. Out of state fans who make the journey, which is a lot when it comes to the MLB.
Certainly, every game isn't going to have 30,000 different fans each night. That's just absurd to think if we're being honest.
Everything else is just extreme speculation on your end and really disproven rather easily by how solid the Bees have drawn over the years despite being a minor league team.
Finally, this might be a good thing for the Jazz. I don't understand your comment about the competitiveness of the Jazz. If anything, having a monopoly on the major league sports market in Utah has allowed for them to be largely mediocre over the last 23 years. There's no direct competition that hurts their bottom line, so they can get away with it.
A competitive baseball team that actually offers a major league alternative could be a solid kick in the butt the franchise needs to actually build a contender and not a team that has been a quick out in the playoffs this century.