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03-31-2011, 06:37 PM
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You honestly think MJC lost $5 million by not allowing 22 year olds from Dundalk to bring in as many cases of beer as they could carry? Really?
Having seen the yokels that end up in the infield on many an occasion, I'd say the average amount brought to MJC from infield patrons was roughly 37 cents a head. Those dummies weren't buying cotton candy and Preakness t-shirts when they had 96 meisterbraus on their person.
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04-01-2011, 03:23 PM
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04-01-2011, 03:44 PM
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Oh no, I'd love to hear about how the kids from Glen Burnie were spending $40 per head by your estimate on top of the $60 ticket price on memorabilia and refreshments, let alone betting. You've clearly never been in the Preakness infield before, nor is math your strong suit. But yeah, I'm ignorant and prejudiced.
And from what year to what year did the Preakness attendance decline by 50k? ETA: a Thoroughbred Times article detailing how Preakness attendance has never dipped more than 35-ishk in the last dozen years. Moreover, the article also discusses how handle was down in 2010 despite a substantial increase in attendance. So yeah, I'm sure those Baltimore County kids are spending a ton on things other than $20 all you can drink beers when they show up at the track. http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nat...ss-stakes.aspx
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04-01-2011, 04:25 PM
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Just doing the math in my head (and I realize I'm the only one who cares or is belaboring this point), but to lose $5 million on the infield from '08-'09 would mean that A., the attendance decline from one year to the next was entirely infield tickets, which it most likely was not, and B., each infield patron from 2008 would have had to spend approximately $84 a person on top of the $60 ticket price that wasn't spent in 2009.
Now, do some people that go to the infield spend some sort of money on something? Of course. But are the majority of those patrons the types to spend near $100 on betting or goods when they were allowed to bring as many cans of Mickey's they could carry? I would suggest not.
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04-01-2011, 04:31 PM
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04-01-2011, 04:40 PM
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Yes, I've been to the infield - was there in 2009 even - and no, I've never noticed a gang of people waiting to bet. It's just not a "betting" crowd per se.
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04-01-2011, 04:47 PM
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And in '09, folks were buying beers at $3 a pop, which they weren't in 2008, countering at least some of the attendance loss one would assume.
Anyway, I think the $20 all you can drink deal is a great medium between the wrongful death lawsuit plan of the mid-2000's and the $3/beer infield plan of 2008. I certainly don't think that people from Baltimore County should have been able to roll their own kegs into the infield as they were allowed to do through the early 2000's.
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