I heard they sold only 84 percent of capacity for their first playoff game ever. That's mind boggling. Move them to New Orleans. We need a franchise.
while I would love to have an MLB team (especially one that would play quite a few home games vs the Sox), I don't think New Orleans is big/wealthy enough to be home to a big league team. 81 home games is A LOT to sell out in a small market.
It took one of the NBA's best young PG's of all-time to keep the Hornets here. And that's 41 home games all played indoors. Do you really think: a. fans would want to sit and watch in 120 degree heat indexes from June-Aug? b. the Saints would sit around and let the state build a new, indoor/outdoor facility for a baseball team when they did not get a new 'superdome'? Stick to just football and hope the Hornets keep playing really well. Because that's all the city can handle.
a. What if they played in the dome? b. What if they played in the dome? I know it's not really set up for baseball, but it's been played there on a number of occasions in the past.
ever wondered why the Astros moved out of the Astrodome? or the Mariners from the Kingdome? Why the Twins are trying like hell to get out of the Metrodome? etc.? The places are caves. Not well suited for baseball at all.
Parks like Minute Maid will be the norm. Cover it so we can play some baseball when it storms while still getting that outdoor game appeal when it doesn't.
plus it's a lot smaller. they don't have to put a big @$$ tarp over 20-30 thousand seats like Oakland does. The tarps llok like crap (better than empty seats). If you don't cover them "permanently", then the empty seats count toward capacity, thus gauranteein ZERO sellouts, ever.
