Team Promotions

by matskralc on Jul 1, 2007 5:25 PM EDT Comment 4 comments

I was bored, so I did a quick count of the number of home games teams have some sort of promotion scheduled this year. I just used MLB.com's schedules. These count all kinds of promotions, whether it's bobbleheads or fireworks or just theme nights or dollar hot dog nights. Whatever they are.

One problem is that not all team sites have a separate promotional schedule, so I had to go off the normal schedule and count games with the "promotion" asterisk. Games that are rained out don't appear to keep their asterisk. So these may not be exactly accurate, but they certainly signify a trend.

The numbers in parantheses are the number of additional games the team had promotions for in the preseason. I can't say that I'm particularly surprised by who came out on top (although I'm surprised and skeptical about the last team. Well, not who the team is, but the number I counted.)

Pirates 79
Braves 77
Marlins 72
Mariners 71
Astros 70
Rangers 69
Royals 66
White Sox 65
Blue Jays 62
Angels 59
Indians 59
Padres 59
Reds 59
Twins 59
Cubs 57
Orioles 54
Devil Rays 53 (1)
Dodgers 47 (2)
Yankees 46
Giants 45
Tigers 44
Diamondbacks 43
Phillies 42 (1)
Mets 41
Brewers 40
Rockies 40
Athletics 37
Cardinals 37
Nationals 31 (15)
Red Sox 0

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Wow, Matskralc.

I can't believe you did that. It's really good to know this for sure, though.

by Charlie on Jul 1, 2007 5:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What's odd

Is that I wandered over to the P-G to double-check the Pirates'. The two home games that didn't have asterisks on MLB.com's schedule for the Pirates were the two games rained out that weekend back in April against the Giants. The P-G's schedule has a promotion for each of those games (blanket Saturday, kids' glove Sunday). But the P-G only lists some 60 promotions or so. This is because the P-G plainly omits some...July 5, for instance, is a three-fer! "Seniors Super Saver", "Alumni Autographs" and "Pups in the Park" are all scheduled that day. In fact, every Thursday is Senior/Alumni day, but the P-G doesn't list any.

So again, I don't claim full accuracy, but it appears that the Pirates do actually have some kind of promo scheduled for every. Freaking. Game. And this isn't even remotely the norm.

by matskralc on Jul 1, 2007 5:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Huh.

I guess I just figured that everybody did this. Good to know.

by Vlad on Jul 5, 2007 7:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

dont forget

mats, that, for instance, when those two SF promo games got rained out, they just rescheduled the blanket for another date. the glove will go on "last home game, grab whatever you want from the leftovers" day.

by Geeves28 on Jul 8, 2007 12:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs