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Who needs a pep talk (or at least a good reason to bash some subpar Yankees fans)?
If you’re looking for something blaming blown fan interference calls from years ago or foul poles for Orioles playoff losses to the Yankees, you might want to close your browser now. You won’t find that here. For any of you who saw the Orioles get knocked out of the playoffs by the Yankees Friday night […]
Over 20% of Yankee Stadium’s seats for Game 5 of ALDS are for sale on StubHub
October 12, 2012
About 30 minutes after the Baltimore Orioles defeated the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the ALDS to force a decisive Game 5 Friday in the Bronx, I checked StubHub to see what seats are available for it. I can’t get over what I found: There are more than 12,000 Game 5 tickets for […]
StubHub before and after Jayson Werth’s Game 4 walk-off home run
October 11, 2012
Around the time the Washington Nationals’ Jayson Werth was rounding the bases after depositing a Game 4, 9th inning, walk-off home run into the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen, I checked StubHub for tickets to Game 5, which will decide who moves on to face the San Francisco Giants in the National League Championship Series. That […]
Under new wild card system, Orioles are right where they’d be with the old one
October 6, 2012
Before Major League Baseball expanded its playoff format this year and added a second wild card team in each league, the sole wild card winners in both the American and National Leagues would open the playoffs against the team with the best record in their league. Under the old system, if two teams finished tied […]
Nats look to “Take Back the Park” from Phillies selling only to local addresses
February 3, 2012
Here’s something from the D.C. Sports Bog that might be of interest to those who like to see tickets stay out of the hands of the opposing team’s fans. “…starting Friday morning at 8 a.m., the club will begin selling single-game tickets for just a single weekend series: May 4-6, against the Phillies. These tickets […]
Nats should leverage demand for a Teddy win to get something they need
June 2, 2011
It’s been almost exactly a year since I suggested the Washington Nationals should let Teddy win their Presidents Race on June 4, 2010, as a consolation prize to all the fans who’d bought tickets to that game thinking it might be Stephen Strasburg’s major league debut. But Teddy came up short in that race, leaving […]
It’s not like you threw a D-Cell, Steinberg, right?
May 30, 2011
Washington Post writer Dan Steinberg says that seeing all the Phillies fans invade Nats park today made him “want to be a Nats fan.” He then notes he’s “supposed to be neutral and all that.” Sure, it’s generally the rule that a journalist should not show they are rooting for one team or another in […]
Orioles off to a great start on the field, but not with their customer service
April 7, 2011
I thought for a few days about whether to blog this or handle it over email and I feel the Baltimore Orioles basically earned this being posted publicly for the way they handled the situation when I tried to speak with them about it in person. If seeing this online makes them (or other brands) […]
Jayson Werth, Cliff Lee and the Nats free agent marketing dollars
December 10, 2010
A few years ago, when I was playing more music than I am right now, I was sitting on the patio of an Austin, Texas hotel with some friends during South By Southwest. In the lot next door to this hotel, there was a large billboard. I started thinking that if I bought that billboard […]
TBS Bumps Phillies-Red Sox to Air Strasburg’s Second Start
June 10, 2010
How’s this for a statement? TBS has bumped this Sunday’s Phillies-Red Sox game in order to air Stephen Strasburg’s second start. Those are two teams that have each won the World Series in recent years and that have name recognition and star power to draw viewers, whose interleague game has been pulled so that the […]
Strasburg Debut & MASN Ratings
June 8, 2010
It’s hard to predict how Stephen Strasburg will do in his major league debut tonight for the Washington Nationals, but I think it’s safe to say that the TV ratings for the broadcast on MASN will break records for the five year old regional sports network. MASN saw record ratings for some Nats games in […]
Bringing Some Dignity Back to June 4
June 3, 2010
June 4′s got to be feeling a little slighted right now. That was the day that many in the media speculated would be the major league debut of highly-touted pitching prospect Stephen Strasburg, which caused a run on tickets for the Friday night game against the Cincinnati Reds. Then the team made the official announcement […]
June 8 MLB Debut for Nationals’ Strasburg Makes Better Baseball Sense
May 26, 2010
Washington Nationals fans and the media have been speculating that 2009 #1 pick Stephen Strasburg will make his major league debut on Friday, June 4 against the Cincinnati Reds. Tickets for that date have been selling well, even before the team made any sort of official announcement on when Strasburg will pitch his first game […]
How’s this for fan relations?
August 18, 2009
I really like what Major League Baseball and the Texas Rangers did here. A kid caught two foul balls during a game this week, within a few pitches of one another and they put the video online. It’s the type of thing that will drive traffic to their website and it shows fans they care–it’s […]
MIKE HOLDEN
I'm a blogger and communications professional, writing here mostly about sports, PR, marketing, and the media. I also blog about hockey at BrooksLaichyear.com.
I'm a blogger and communications professional, writing here mostly about sports, PR, marketing, and the media. I also blog about hockey at BrooksLaichyear.com.
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