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Originally Posted by jhausner
Not sure about MLB. They barely make it work in Seattle. And comparing to the Canadians I don't know. You'd be going from a 90something long season to 162 games. That's around 70 more games you have to sell. Not to mention roster prices go way up which means ticket prices need to go way up. You then look at the schedule and realize an MLB team would then be pretty much overlapping the BC Lions and Vancouver Whitecaps seasons.
So you have 3 teams now competing directly for fans vs the Canucks all by themselves. From a business standpoint I think it would make more sense to have a basketball season which in essence shares the NHL season. The Canucks are a fixture and that would leave in the hockey "off season" the Lions and Whitecaps to themselves.
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Agreed. I posted about this in another thread, but you'd need to make a business case for selling 2,000,000 tickets and an 81 game schedule.
Compare that to our current sports teams (from most recent season, home games not including preseason or playoffs):
Canucks - 41 games, 773,000
Lions - 9 games, 270,000
Whitecaps - 17 games, 363,000
Canadians - 24 games, 146,000
Giants - 35 games, 246,000
Even if you add playoff games to the above, you'd be proposing to double the amount of pro sports ticket sales in Vancouver; no easy feat...