I’m curious to see how big the cups are.

In his book “Seasons in Hell” (a must read for baseball fans), Mike Shropshire talks about how they tried this at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium back in the 70s; and the result was decidedly not so good. As the more seasoned StR readers may recall, Municipal Stadium was cavernous, with a capacity of about 78,000. Unfortunately the typical game in the 1970s only drew about three or four thousand, thus giving the impression of a perpetually empty stadium.

Then someone got the brilliant idea for 10-Cent Beer Night. The good news was that 30,000 spectators turned out. The bad news was that they were all raging alcoholics. The author describes all kinds of mayhem in the stands, eventually spilling out onto the field. The umpires ending up calling the game in the sixth inning due to fan unruliness.

Will history repeat itself? We shall see.

IM GOING!!!!

Somthing crazy is going to happen and i wnna be there :)

before selling the distributorship.

on when beer_man chimes in on this thread? (Burp!)

Seems like a smart move.

I know it’s only for the first half but it doesn’t say free refills. Just askin’

Did anyone happen to make it the “free buffet” game where a line started in the middle and extended in both direction around the upper bowl until the lines connected? Talk about a bunch of unhappy people.

My latest experience tells me that this will end up being a disaster. During the Hornets game, the concession stands closed down to three windows. The stand I went to then ran out of soda and the poor concession stand people had to run down to the other end of the concession stand to fill drink orders while the lines backed up. It was a royal clusterF@#$ and that was not the only run-in with costumer service snaffu’s that I witnessed.

First the team sucked but the service was good and the tickets where affordable. Then the team got good, the service remained good but the ticket prices shot up. Then the team sucked again, the ticket prices remained through the roof but again, the service remained pretty good. Now, the team is improving, the tickets prices are still too high but the attention to detail with the customer service has gone out the window. I’m kind of hoping for a reasonably good team with reasonable prices but also with a staff that takes care of the few quality fans they have left.

As the old adage goes: It takes years to earn a customer and seconds to lose one.

I know the announcement was just made but I’m thinking they probably had enough time to get some free merch ready like rally towels with the Kings logo, caps or some halfway decent t-shirts. I’m sure bobble heads take way too long to produce. I dunno, I just get a Michigan Tropics feel from this move.

I’m thinking Arco stops serving beer by the end of halftime. I doubt the Maloofs want to be responsible for a Raider Nation like atmosphere or a long streak of red asphalt on I-5 that night. No disrespect to ‘normal’ Raider fans. Heh.

are making a concerted effort to regain the fans. If the improved team play and all the promotions don’t work, we don’t deserve a team.

Ownership and management are doing everything they can to make this a success.

I can get up to 20 lower level for $30 ($29.50) each

I’m pirating this thread – anybody in?

Has a certain ring to it.

Looks like it’s going to work though some people are obviously just going for the beer. A couple callers said they haven’t been paying attention to the team and are not really fans but they are going for the cheap drinks.