I did indeed. I usually squeeze in a Bears road game mostly every year. I’ve done London, Kansas City, Vegas, Nashville, New York, Lambeau and will probably do DC this year.
Baseball fans and football fans are wired a bit differently. I think there’s on average a lot less tourism around baseball if for no other reason than the lack of scarcity of home games.
I would have said that the odds were good that I’d make a trip to Vegas for a Cubs series someday, but Vegas is pretty much over I think. Greed and consolidation has killed that town.
I’m part of the Ballpark Chasers Facebook group and I often plan domestic trips around baseball, but I do think it’s a small niche and not something that a Vegas based team should count on.
I myself canceled a trip to Las Vegas back in January, I realised a few days beforehand I just didn’t want to deal with all the fucking fees and surcharges. And I’ve been there enough that I get comped rooms and a decent amount of food credit. The whole place just pisses me off.
I think my breaking point was when I was paying a hefty price to sit on the patio at Mon Ami Gabi, completely ruined by a LOUD street busker on the sidewalk and got to pay a surcharge for the privilege. That was the straw, maybe it’s petty but I’m sure there’s a $25 per day breathing fee coming soon!
I go to Vegas once a year or so to visit my uncle and go to concerts when a band I love is visiting but not hitting California. I stay off the strip and not in a casino and avoid fees. I hate casinos and the strip/downtown in general. I like to see my favorite bands and there’s great food.
Former MLB player Esteban German said, after he was pulled from the debris, that he survived because Tony Blanco pushed him out of the way of falling rubble before dying.
I could see broadcasting them in some lull times in the sports calendar, like the MLB all star break. But 10? I’ve never seen them. But I can’t imagine watching the Harlem Globetrotters ten times in my life, much less in a year.
Nice, where are you seeing them? I have tickets for the Kansas City games, and a few games in Savannah, but we can’t go to the Savannah games this year.