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D-backs Should Take a Cue From Radiohead

Oct 11, 2007 – 5:57 PM
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Josh Alper

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Much has been made in the media about the copious amounts of tickets still available for tonight and tomorrow night's NLCS games at Chase Field in Phoenix. Earlier this afternoon Diamondbacks President Derrick Hall said 4,000 seats remained available for tonight's game and that got me thinking.

The cheapest available ticket for the games in Arizona are $25.00, not too bad when you take into account that a seat in the farthest reaches of Yankee Stadium's leftfield upper deck ran you $42.00 in the division series. Still, Phoenicians aren't biting so why not take a page from Thom Yorke's book and just let fans pay what they want.

Radiohead has released their new album In Rainbows via the internet and if you go to the site and download it, it's up to you to pay what you want. A rather ingenious way of both beating the illegal download system as well as turning on a new fan or two to your music which would then, theoretically, lead them to buy more music in the future.

If the Diamondbacks are having trouble turning people onto their brand of baseball, why not try something similar? You want a full house to support your team and give yourself a home field advantage so why not try slashing prices to ensure a capacity crowd. You'll make a lot of the difference back on beer and hot dogs and, who knows, you might mint a die-hard Snakes fan or two in the process. Oh, and the Radiohead album? Quite good and worth whatever you might want to pay for it.
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Tagged: NLDS

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