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re: Keeping it in Birmingham is fine, but gotta move to new Regions Field
Posted on 5/22/13 at 3:57 pm to 1999
Posted on 5/22/13 at 3:57 pm to 1999
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seems like there is a lot of demand for it and they are making a nice chunk of change off just the fee to stay there.
$35,000?
Please. Raise ticket prices by $1 and you've recouped that and more.
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Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:02 pm to Golfer
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That packed house for a game between the best travelling team to Hoover and the local favorite today really solidifies your argument.
I almost qualified my post with that...
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:06 pm to DvlsAdvocat
Gotcha. I hate Hoover... 
I've been 4 times...won't go back until they move it. The people are nice, but it's a stale ballpark, in a stale city.
I've been 4 times...won't go back until they move it. The people are nice, but it's a stale ballpark, in a stale city.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:17 pm to DvlsAdvocat
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There is another brewery on the way too, Beer Engineers, and its gonna be right next door to Good People. Also, the ballpark sits on Third Avenue...if you drive down Third, you'll come across Cahaba Brewing, and then Avondale Brewing (both produce better beers, IMHO)...
I disagree. Good People is in a class of it's own. Cahaba is solid, but Avondale beer leaves much to be desired.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:22 pm to RollDatRoll
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Good People is in a class of it's own.
Special Ed?
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:22 pm to DvlsAdvocat
quote:Disagree. Good People Snakehandler is the best beer out of Birmingham, IMHO. (Not that I have tried them all)
Cahaba Brewing, and then Avondale Brewing (both produce better beers, IMHO).
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:25 pm to piggidyphish
I would care to go if it was in Memphis. In Hoover, I am fine watching it on TV. Would certainly go if it came to Metairie
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:30 pm to GoldenFlakes
I've never been to the SEC tournament, not a whole lot of SC fans go, and Tanner never stressed its importance, but damn it is depressing to watch the ACC tournament always in some nice minor league ball park and then see the SEC play in such a park.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:34 pm to DvlsAdvocat
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Well, the thousands of fewer seats is a factor as well
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Tuesday saw the smallest Alabama-Auburn crowd ever played at the SEC Tournament in Hoover. Today's afternoon game brought the smallest Alabama-LSU crowd ever in the tournament while in Hoover.
LSU's 3-0 victory was played before an announced crowd of 6,197 fans. The previous low for an Alabama-LSU game was 2009, when 6,524 saw a Thursday mid-afternoon game.
"The crowds for both games (Alabama-Auburn and Alabama-LSU) were slightly less than we anticipated," said Gene Hallman, CEO of Bruno Event Team, which manages the tournament. "It's hard to explain why. Ticket sales for the entire week are still tracking ahead of last year's pace."
Alabama and LSU typically draw some of the largest crowds, especially when they play each other. Three of the nine largest crowds in SEC Tournament history are Alabama-LSU games.
Today marked the smallest SEC Tournament crowd for any Alabama game since drawing 5,894 against Georgia in 2008. It was the smallest crowd for any LSU game since 2009, when 5,356 saw the Tigers play Georgia.
Announced attendance through three sessions at the SEC Tournament is down 3 percent from last year and 13 percent from 2011. New formats pushed the tournament to start on Tuesday instead of Wednesday in each of the past two years.
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In April of 2013, the Birmingham Barons Baseball Club played their first game in their new ballpark, Regions Field. The state-of-the-art 8,500 seat facility in the heart of downtown replaced Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, the home of the Barons since 1988.
Seems like there is plenty of seating to spare.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:38 pm to GoldenFlakes
I live on the southside of bham, about a mile from the park. It's a great park, but I think it has 5000-6000 less seats than at the Hoover Met. Would be a very hard ticket for the better matchups.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:45 pm to DvlsAdvocat
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Special Ed?
You obviously don't have a clue about beer. So I'll let it be. Check the ratings at beeradvocate.com . I'm not the only one who thinks Good People makes the best beer in Birmingham. And I agree, Snake Handler is the best. In a class of it's own.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:45 pm to Golfer
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Please. Raise ticket prices by $1 and you've recouped that and more.
frick that.....had three generations at game today
.....frick birmingham
Posted on 5/22/13 at 4:57 pm to GoldenFlakes
Yeah! This thread again......
Posted on 5/22/13 at 5:06 pm to hendrixfan
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frick that.....had three generations at game today
.....frick birmingham
Are y'all banned from Birmingham?
Posted on 5/22/13 at 5:52 pm to PeaRidgeWatash
Move it to Memphis and allow RV parking down at Tom Lee Park.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 5:59 pm to RebelFreeze48
Can't park at Tom lee because of sunset symphony and what not.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 6:02 pm to Slippery Slope
That's never a problem when they have Memphis in May BBQ fest. Don't the park all kinds of trailers down there then?
Posted on 5/22/13 at 6:05 pm to RebelFreeze48
Riverside is shut down for BBQ fest. The only parking allowed is handicapped.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 7:25 pm to GoldenFlakes
I'm for moving it around to different cities. I think Hoover sort of rested on it's laurels.
But I can't understand you LSU fans that want to move the sec tournament around, yet are just fine having the CWS in freaking Omaha every damn year.
If any tournament needs to rotate, it's the CWS.
But I can't understand you LSU fans that want to move the sec tournament around, yet are just fine having the CWS in freaking Omaha every damn year.
If any tournament needs to rotate, it's the CWS.
Posted on 5/22/13 at 9:33 pm to East Coast Band
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If any tournament needs to rotate, it's the CWS.
No. It wouldn't be the same if it wasn't in Omaha.
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