Atlanta Braves II

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GAVol said:
It's a Monday night in April. It's always sparse during the week until kids get out of school for the Summer.
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Not to mention rain. If a drop of rain falls, I-285 stops functioning. And the general not wanting to watch a game in it.
 
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TBrown said:
Per usual. I don't really care for the residents of Atlanta.
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You understand that 60-70 percent of the people who live here (and 80-90 percent of the people who can afford to take a family to a ballgame) are transplants from up north who've moved here in the last 20 years and who still root for their hometown teams, right?
 
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Vercingetorix said:
You understand that 60-70 percent of the people who live here (and 80-90 percent of the people who can afford to take a family to a ballgame) are transplants from up north who've moved here in the last 20 years and who still root for their hometown teams, right?
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Yeah..I also understand the piss poor location of the ball park, the population dynamics, and the traffic issues. Doesn't make the empty ballpark any less embarrassing. Doesn't change the fact that I'll attend more games than those 80-90% people from 6+ hours away.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
You understand that 60-70 percent of the people who live here (and 80-90 percent of the people who can afford to take a family to a ballgame) are transplants from up north who've moved here in the last 20 years and who still root for their hometown teams, right?
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I find it hard to explain this to people who never lived in Atlanta. They usually say that they understand, but I don't think you can until you have lived in the metro area at least a couple years.
 
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MadcapLaughs said:
I find it hard to explain this to people who never lived in Atlanta. They usually say that they understand, but I don't think you can until you have lived in the metro area at least a couple years.
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No doubt about it. There aren't very many native Atlantans it seems.
 
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TBrown said:
Yeah..I also understand the piss poor location of the ball park, the population dynamics, and the traffic issues. Doesn't make the empty ballpark any less embarrassing. Doesn't change the fact that I'll attend more games than those 80-90% people from 6+ hours away.
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Silly to call it "embarrassing" when attendance is an across-the-board problem in North American sports right now; the demographic issues in Atlanta only exacerbate it. Teams haven't figured out yet that they can't charge anywhere near the corporate-ticket-fueled pre-recession prices in a time when every game is on a 50 inch HD TV in every house every night. Especially when the team is clearly barely trying to win anyway.
 
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GAVol said:
No doubt about it. There aren't very many native Atlantans it seems.
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I'm a relative rarity in even being from the south. In the 17 years I've lived here, I've been friends with maybe half a dozen people who grew up here. Almost everyone is a transplant.
 
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I've been to several Cubs and Mets home games at Fulton County and The Ted. Braves might as well wear their ugly traveling grays all the time.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I'm a relative rarity in even being from the south. In the 17 years I've lived here, I've been friends with maybe half a dozen people who grew up here. Almost everyone is a transplant.
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Growing up there, most of my schoolmates parents were from Ohio or some other northern area.
 
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_vol said:
I've been to several Cubs and Mets home games at Fulton County and The Ted. Braves might as well wear their ugly traveling grays all the time.
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It's not quite that bad, but Cubs fans in particular do turn out.
 
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Okay. Can I call not selling out playoff games embarrassing?

Vercingetorix said:
Silly to call it "embarrassing" when attendance is an across-the-board problem in North American sports right now; the demographic issues in Atlanta only exacerbate it. Teams haven't figured out yet that they can't charge anywhere near the corporate-ticket-fueled pre-recession prices in a time when every game is on a 50 inch HD TV in every house every night. Especially when the team is clearly barely trying to win anyway.
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