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| quote: | Originally posted by sean5
i really think it has to do with sales numbers. both leetch and graves were retired on thrasher games and richter was retired on a wild game. only messier got the true treatment of retiring against his former team the oilers. maybe it's just coincidence, but i don't think so. |
what day of the week and when was messier's retirement exactly?
think of it like this, hypothetically teams can be classified into different tiers like platinum, gold, silver, bronze. no matter when it is when your team is playing a platinum level team people are going to go to the game. if your home team is playing a bronze level team on a weekend then families who can't go during the week will most likely go because of the timing plus throw in a special for 4 tickets with food and beverage included and there you go. now if you have a bronze level team on a wednesday that's a hard sell even season ticket holders don't go which sucks. anyhow, if i were a team i would schedule all my special events on days when people are least likely to attend like mid week against a bronze team. that way during that week, you bump up the business on a day which would normally be slow. since its special you have the benefit of keeping people in the arena longer (ie arena opened like 2hrs earlier than normal i belive) which increases their chances of spending their money. special merchandise to remember the event and most importantly between work and that game you had no real chance of eating dinner elsewhere so you know more people are going to buy food. ticket sales are good but there is really a fixed amount of money you can make from them; in sports food, beverage and merch sales are HUGE. tickets although important is just part of it (varying levels of importance from league to league obviously). either way i can go on and on but i'll stop  ...when it comes to sports unlike most i view things from a business perspective first then ease into enjoying a game.
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| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
I once saw Swamper peel off 4 or 5 $100 bills from a fat roll and say this to Donald Trump: "Go clean yourself up; you look like a bum.". And then he threw the bills right in Trump's face/hair! Then Swamper and his entourage of 30, who were all wearing TA monogramed Rolexes, left the room and flew to Hawaii for a few hours because Del wanted fresh coconut.
To his defense, Trump didn't even really look like a bum. |
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