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Originally Posted by phesto
Agreed. I posted about this in another thread, but you'd need to make a business case for selling 2,000,000 tickets and an 81 game schedule.
Compare that to our current sports teams (from most recent season, home games not including preseason or playoffs):
Canucks - 41 games, 773,000
Lions - 9 games, 270,000
Whitecaps - 17 games, 363,000
Canadians - 24 games, 146,000
Giants - 35 games, 246,000
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Going to a baseball game is far cheaper than going to a hockey game. The cheapest seat for a Blue Jays game is $11, while the cheapest seat for a Canucks game is over $60 (excluding some very limited promotions). It costs less to go to a baseball game than it does to go to a movie.
The single A Vancouver Canadians average over 4000 people per game, with ticket prices ranging from 12.50 to 22.00 dollars, for as low a profile a team that you could possibly get in Vancouver. Baseball is the one sport that can attract people just for the sake of being at the ballpark.
Build a park around downtown, and with our spectacular setting and our high population density, you are going to get good crowds.
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