There's a paradox problem with Tarps Off, isn't there? It works in a stadium with enough open seat flex to let a group self-select and sort itself, but as the team gets better and the seats sell better, the open seating will disappear and smother the large-scale performances that are so fun and drawing the attention now.
All the old ballpark promotional greats believed you pulled out the weird stuff when the team wasn't playing well enough to draw on its own, but when the team improved you put all that stuff away. I see the same happening here, but the fact that it's bottom-up rather than top-down makes it pretty special.
Today’s announcement of a designated section helps with that but agreed that as the attendance grows, this could and likely will get crowded out. Then again, maybe it’s a full stadium waving shirts. The Twins had the Homer Hankies after all!
Real good report! Thanks. I'd like to see Pozo in more, DH, for example, when Herrera is catching, let not-Lefty-Harmon-Killebrew brew on the bench while Fermin or Prieto plays 3rd.
Softball teams should be invited to the glories of Tarps Off, too. Will the Cardinals really stage a "Boys Only" section setting?
For one, I think women were in the section as well, just waving towels instead of going the distance.
They have been real spotty with the bench. Pozo hardly plays, like Prieto. Granted, it’s not the old days when you needed pinch hitters but you’d think they would try to find sports for those guys more often.
There's a paradox problem with Tarps Off, isn't there? It works in a stadium with enough open seat flex to let a group self-select and sort itself, but as the team gets better and the seats sell better, the open seating will disappear and smother the large-scale performances that are so fun and drawing the attention now.
All the old ballpark promotional greats believed you pulled out the weird stuff when the team wasn't playing well enough to draw on its own, but when the team improved you put all that stuff away. I see the same happening here, but the fact that it's bottom-up rather than top-down makes it pretty special.
Today’s announcement of a designated section helps with that but agreed that as the attendance grows, this could and likely will get crowded out. Then again, maybe it’s a full stadium waving shirts. The Twins had the Homer Hankies after all!
Real good report! Thanks. I'd like to see Pozo in more, DH, for example, when Herrera is catching, let not-Lefty-Harmon-Killebrew brew on the bench while Fermin or Prieto plays 3rd.
Softball teams should be invited to the glories of Tarps Off, too. Will the Cardinals really stage a "Boys Only" section setting?
For one, I think women were in the section as well, just waving towels instead of going the distance.
They have been real spotty with the bench. Pozo hardly plays, like Prieto. Granted, it’s not the old days when you needed pinch hitters but you’d think they would try to find sports for those guys more often.