Finding topics to blog about hard to come by, I asked our followers on our Twitter Page for some suggestions. The overall consensus seemed to be that people were curious about my outlook for the Bruins & Celtics for the upcoming season. Working for Admit One gives me a unique perspective into how fans feel about their home teams chances of being competitive and having a chance to win it all. I mean who can blame them, would you want to shell out a few hundred bucks to take your girlfriend or boyfriend to a game only to see the Celtics get blown out by 30 points or the Bruins skate around for 60 minutes without scoring a single goal? No of coarse not, and we don't expect you to. That's why the price of tickets on the secondary market is set by you, the fans. When the teams start winning, everyone wants to go and the price sky rockets. When the teams start losing, well, lets just say Box seats to the last Red Sox vs Orioles home stand a week ago were selling for $7 each a few hours before the game.
So what do I think of the Bruins & Celtics chances this year? Well I'll get to that because honestly I'm just one guy with one opinion. Whats more interesting is what the fans of the Celtics & Bruins think about their team, and right or wrong, I can give you their perspective from a ticket brokers point of view.
We started selling Boston Bruins Tickets for the upcoming season on our site www.BruinsTix.com
over 2 months ago. As you can imagine demand was slow in July and August but the key match ups stayed hot. Opening day is always a huge ticket and opening up the Garden against Ovechkin & The Capitals was sure to be a big ticket. Not only do you see Ovechkin opening night but 3 days later you get the NY Rangers in town on a Saturday. Fans have been pretty pumped to see Tyler Seguin in real life which caused the prices of the first preseason game vs Florida to jump from $7 all the way up to $50 by game time with almost no seats being left anywhere. From both mine and the fans perspective he has not disappointed racking up a goal and an assist in only 2 games played. This kid is a superstar and seeing him up close from our Ice seats on Wednesday night leads me to believe he will fit right in. While having Mark Savard on the fence for the season sure makes reaching the Stanley Cup an uphill battle, having Tyler Seguin up front should have fans saying Mark who? rather quickly. The NHL season is long and usually injury plagued, seems like the team who can stay the healthiest usually makes it the furthest. With the combination of Zdeno Chara having a contract year, Seguin playing on the same line as either Lucic or Bergeron, and Tuukka Rask spending the pre season looking as sharp as where he left off in 2010, the B's should not only be a power house in the east but win over Buffalo and Ottawa to take the Division.
Stay tuned in the next few days for my Boston Celtics perspective & feel free to join us on our Twitter Page and give me your feedback on the blog or make a topic request.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The outlook for Winter sports teams in Boston part 1
Monday, September 27, 2010
The end of the 2010 Red Sox season
As the 2010 Red Sox season comes to an end I would like to share with everyone my point of view on a teams "popularity". What most people fail to realize is that popularity and winning are both cyclical. A dynasty is both. However a quote unquote "dynasty" is not what the average fan is looking for. We love the "Cinderella" the "underdog". Most people believe that a winning team, a consistently winning team that is, will garnish higher attendance at the ball park and more fan interest. Both the NY Yankees and Atlanta Braves have proven otherwise. The Atlanta Braves for all the post seasons they have made now no longer can even sell out a home playoff game. The Yankees, while being a hot World Series ticket in 2009 was actually a ticket that sold for FACE value in 2003 vs Florida. You see the Yankees were coming to the end of their "dynasty" and fans were, well, sick and tired of all the winning. They might not admit it, but the secondary market never lies. Fans were expecting the Yankees to win, so why shell out hundreds of dollars to see it live when you can watch it at home for free, I mean you already know the result. Well, sort of since the Yankees actually lost that series to Florida and the red hot Josh Becket in 6 games.
The Boston Red Sox 2004 World Series bleacher tickets were selling for $1500. In 2007 the same ticket cost $650. Fans get bored with winning faster then they get bored with losing. The fans in Boston keep screaming for a World Series, can I ask WHY? There are 30 teams in Major League Baseball and only 2 make it to the dance and only 1 can win that coveted World Series trophy. Does that mean its not worth paying for a ticket if you either expect your team to win or lose? Does the experience of being at a Sunday Red Sox Yankees game at Fenway mean so much less if the game isnt for all the marbles? To those fans out there that say yes, I say go ask your 6 year old if he cares. Ask him if the experience of seeing Big Papi hit a home run vs the Yanks is diminished in his eyes because the team is not chasing October.
To the real fans out there I say, if the weather is nice this weekend take your kid to Fenway. I know the Sox are eliminated and the Yankees have clinched the playoffs but your kids will not care. Tickets are 75% cheaper then ever and in this economy stretching a dollar and showing your kids a good time is more important then ever. Their memory will always be, being at a Sox Yankees game with their dad, not of the standings.