A friend of mine has a season ticket for the St Louis Cardinals (a fairly decent team) and its $3000 and its in a decent area of the stadium - that is for 81 matches!
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MLB to play a game in LONDON next year ?
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A friend of mine has a season ticket for the St Louis Cardinals (a fairly decent team) and its $3000 and its in a decent area of the stadium - that is for 81 matches!
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You can get a ST for $1400.
Him and 3 other mates buy two between them and share out the games.
Peter Grummit
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$37 per game, not that cheap! When quite a few games are weekday afternoons when people are working.
A Sussex premier cricket membership for perhaps 50 days cricket (T20; T50; CC + overseas tour game) is £250.
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That is for a 1st base ticket right at the front - plus they get discounts on food/drink/free programme.
would say thats pretty decent
Not Andy Naylor
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Really? The New England Patriots (twice), Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Chicago Bears ... who are you still waiting for? The Cleveland Browns?
Kalimantan Gull
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They played the opening games of the 2014 season in Australia, can't remember if it was Sydney or Melbourne, Dodgers against I think Diamondbacks, and it was only two games. Notably the Dodgers left their best starter at home, and it felt a bit flat to me. I'm looking forward to my first live MLB games at Wrigley this August, can't imagine it would be the same at Wembley or wherever.
Although with NFL games, one of the teams is usually a small market team and it is that small team that has conceded home advantage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_International_Series#Game_history
If you look at 2013 onwards, half the games appear to be featuring the Jacksonville Jaguars - probably the least valuable franchise in the NFL. The LA Rams are admittedly pencilled in for 2016 and 2017 but as you probably know, they were based in St Louis until about a month ago.
They normally send over some pretty decent teams and also the Jags [MENTION=17389]DarrenFreemansPerm[/MENTION]
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One of the NFL teams is usually a small market team because, with only eight home games, you will never get a team that always sells out and has a massive waiting list (Giants, Cowboys, Packers etc.) giving up a home game to come to London. They'd piss off their fans massively and give up a huge chunk of cash.
It's why the 'home' teams e.g. Jaguars, Dolphins, Lions etc. come from small markets, because they don't sell out every week and probably make money coming over to London. NFL has been quite good in ensuring the likes of the Giants and Patriots come over as the away team though. The Rams moving to LA and becoming a top market team has obviously helped because I guess there were certain obligations agreed when they were in St Louis that LA have to go through with.
On the original thread title, I'm massively pumped for MLB to come to London, will be amazing even if the stadium isn't ideal. With that many games - and a clear desire to make a big splash in Europe - I'm sure they'll be able to bring over a well known team. BT Sport will doubtlessly get right behind it as well. Finally, if it's at the Olympic Stadium I doubt it will be during the football season because that would cause big issues for West Ham, especially just when they're working out how things work at the start of the season. Would think it was more likely to be in June/July because then the setup will be much more easily done.
It's why the 'home' teams e.g. Jaguars, Dolphins, Lions etc. come from small markets, because they don't sell out every week and probably make money coming over to London. NFL has been quite good in ensuring the likes of the Giants and Patriots come over as the away team though. The Rams moving to LA and becoming a top market team has obviously helped because I guess there were certain obligations agreed when they were in St Louis that LA have to go through with.
On the original thread title, I'm massively pumped for MLB to come to London, will be amazing even if the stadium isn't ideal. With that many games - and a clear desire to make a big splash in Europe - I'm sure they'll be able to bring over a well known team. BT Sport will doubtlessly get right behind it as well. Finally, if it's at the Olympic Stadium I doubt it will be during the football season because that would cause big issues for West Ham, especially just when they're working out how things work at the start of the season. Would think it was more likely to be in June/July because then the setup will be much more easily done.
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Perhaps it could be the catalyst for a return of baseball to mainsteam TV?? I used to love C5's Sunday night coverage anchored by the excellent Johnny Gould.
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I suppose this was inevitable given that there is more and more cross-ownership of sports teams by UK and US owners. The guy that owns Liverpool also owns the Red Sox and NYCFC is jointly owned by Man City and the Yankees.
LowKarate
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BT have loads of MLB games throughout the season so it's already available on mainstream TV.
Eggman
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I usually agree with your posts. But thus is ridiculous. American Football by a country mile and a lap
The Rams are playing at the afore-mentioned Coliseum next season then moving to a new ground, called Farmers Field.
Eggman
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For me. I don't mind baseball. I lived in Tampa and watched the Rays and it was fun. What ruins it for me is there are so many games in a regular season rendering many games pretty meaningless IMHO. That's what I love NFL. Each and every game means something.
Playoff baseball on the other hand can be epic.
Playoff baseball on the other hand can be epic.
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You JAG
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