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00:00Is it ridiculous that this bothers me? It's a question for the audience more than you. I know what your answer is um
00:06Is it rid? No? I don't think it's ridiculous that it bothers you so on surface
00:11I don't have an issue with new scoreboards and new showers and new team planes and like investing in the facilities
00:16The home plate Club is the latest announcement you you may have seen some photos. I got the cranes out there
00:21They're digging up the field these home plate Club seats are the first ever all-season seat cutting-edge luxury seats
00:3021% wider wider armrests built-in cupholders and John here's the best detail ass cooling technology
00:38Cooling your seat on a hot July day
00:41You can heat them up to if you get there in April or late in the season for the playoffs
00:44Heating and cooling in the premium VIP seats with your own private entrance. I
00:50Think it's cool, and I'm good. I'll be very surface level on this
00:55I know what your reaction is gonna be and I'll let you jump on that bus in just a moment
01:01they announced that they were gonna do this back in June before the team went on a run that it goes on a run and
01:08They have not done anything to make this team better
01:12They haven't done anything to make it worse yet. There's still a lot of actions that can be taken
01:17I understand the perception of time in
01:20Regards to when this was announced and
01:23They have not yet signed anybody on free agency. They haven't made any decisions about
01:28Javi in fact the decision we think they may have made was to keep them
01:32But there has been no other signings in Major League Baseball
01:37So I'm not gonna jump down their throats yet about
01:41the timing of this announcement or
01:44Improving the seats before they improve the roster
01:4721% wider seats about 20% more talent on the baseball team
01:53The optics look bad. They're flooded with comments
01:56I'm not gonna read all of them John, but they are flooded with comments when they announced this and they are all of the same
02:01tone
02:02Spend the money on the product on the field
02:06All this other stuff's good, but it's hollow if you don't spend the money on the field so what I see it
02:13Does and I know maybe irrationally rile me up because they still have a chance this offseason to add
02:18One high-impact bat and I we asked this a couple weeks ago
02:22Was that out of line for me to ask for one high-impact bat and John?
02:24I think most people said no that's a reasonable ask for you as a fan of this baseball team
02:29Coming off an ALDS one game away from an ALCS season add
02:34real
02:35Payroll in the form of real talent
02:37Don't just spend to spend pick your favorite of the several high-level impact bats available in free agency and add them to this team
02:45The frustration comes because last year they added a scoreboard, but not a third baseman, right last year
02:52They added showers in Lakeland, which I'm sure maybe they were overdue. Sure, but they didn't add
02:58Proven major league talent to this team and I want that so bad for this team this offseason
03:04I think many of you feel the same way does it does it land is tone-deaf when you see them flaunting
03:08Ass cooling technology at Comerica Park. I know John
03:13I know that this may be around season ticket renewal or some kind of marketing
03:17It's not good PR when you haven't added to the team and you're talking about all the ways you can now charge your fans more
03:23money to go to the ballpark
03:24for the small percentage that will even
03:28Look at these tickets
03:29I'm not I'm just not gonna lose any any thought or or stress out about the fact that they haven't yet spent in free agency
03:36Or if they will spend in free agency
03:39Versus them improving the stadium. I've just not it's just not where I'm at right now. I
03:44Don't want to give it energy. I don't care
03:46They're not season
03:47They're not tickets that I would go out and spend money on
03:51Somebody will it's probably going to be more like suites or where it's just all corporate. Yeah, so doesn't affect me
03:59To 4 8 5 3 9 97 97 mark not mark Mike in Clarkston blurred the two words Mike. What's up? You're on 97 1
04:07Yeah, I've been a season ticket holder for 20 years. I'm one of the
04:12season ticket holders that's being affected by the
04:15New construction down there behind home plate. Yeah, what I don't know if this has been stated, but my season
04:21I have four seats my season ticket price went from thirty five thousand to two hundred and fifteen thousand
04:27So it's not coming without a huge price tag that just prices out the average season ticket holder
04:34Right, it's going to become completely corporate. It's corporate seating
04:39Yep, absolutely. So it's kind of sad that you know, it's good while it lasted I suppose but
04:46Little bit disenchanted with the major price increase. Are you considering?
04:51Renewing your season tickets in a different location or you're done
04:55I'm thinking about it just because of how well the team did right here at the end of last season
05:02But you know, it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a hard. It's gonna be a hard decision
05:08How long have you you may have said this how long have you been a season ticket holder?
05:12since 2006 okay
05:15Yes, you've been around for 18 years. Yeah a long ride here some some highs and some lows and
05:20Yeah, this one's gonna price you out of your seats
05:22Listen if they're good people will show up
05:24I have no doubt about that if they win and we saw it late in the season people will show up and Mike it may
05:29Be in different seats at that point for you
05:32But I I get what you're saying because I think this gets billed as look what they're doing for the fans
05:37look at how cool this is heating and cooling and plush seating and extra comfort and the reality is
05:43They're doing that and they're gonna charge you for that
05:46They're not doing this out of the goodness of their heart to give you a better seat
05:48They're doing this to make more money
05:50And then the question is what are they doing with the money and that's when it gets me all riled up and worked up again
05:55Yeah, so they'll get the money. It's it's 7x what I was paying Wow
06:01Your private entrance to go with a butler to serve you and drive you to the games. I'm sure all of that
06:07Stoney yeah
06:09They put in a helicopter pad for remote to
06:14Jim I think for now you're overreacting to this and the reason is is that you got to let us offseason play out
06:20My gut is telling me you're not gonna get what you want. Well, then you want it's what we want
06:27Fans have echoed that they also wanted so fans aren't gonna get what they want, but they will get coolings and the seats
06:33right, I
06:35Should be upset about that
06:37first off maybe I think be upset with maybe the the PR of it to a degree that
06:43They teams budget things for different things. This has nothing to do with the on-the-field product
06:48It doesn't agreed. They're not stealing the money from intended payroll to go to
06:54premium seating so I
06:58Don't know why you would use this is cosmetically does it appear bad?
07:01That's why I use the word like the PR like but you why wouldn't you advertise that this is coming?
07:06They have to let guys that just called in know that guess what your seats are going up way
07:11Exponentially, so I'd imagine something like this comes with a front line financial investment on the front end that they will recoup later with the season
07:18Ticket price increases. So this does require a capital investment from the owner, right? Correct
07:25Okay, so does free agency so it all does distill up to one person's decisions with capital investment
07:30It's not Scott Harris who's choosing to put these seats in but it is Chris Illich's choice where he spends the capital from his pockets
07:37this offseason my read on the situational as a team and spending and reading between the lines of Scott Harris's comments is they're gonna be
07:44a calculated spending baseball team
07:46They're gonna they're gonna not get
07:49They're not gonna do hobbies again unless it's a guarantee. Well, there's no guarantees there
07:54I mean, so they're not gonna spell. Okay, there are zero there are zero guarantees
07:58But there are so does one I would give I would gamble on 99 percenters
08:01Yeah, 95 percenters bias was a I thought that was a big risk. Sure. I did. I didn't like this approach at the plate
08:08Yeah, yeah. Yeah that there were concerns there for sure
08:11People will make those concerns about Bregman. Oh, he's on the wrong side of 30 Alonzo too many strikeouts
08:18Who's another one Christian Walker boy, he's he's almost mid 30s at this point
08:22I can't give him a multi-year deal
08:24You can nitpick all these guys and convince yourself not to do anything if you really work at it you can
08:30But but here's the other thing and we just talked to an individual that is going to be displaced
08:35But you're talking about putting in
08:38350 seats in this new home plate Club
08:40I don't know how many that displaces how many are they taking out to put in 350 seats?
08:45Obviously the seats are big bigger armrests are bigger. So there's not going to be as much real estate
08:50But you're talking about a small percentage of the entire stadium, but I think he does open up the conversation about
08:58Your level of investment in this baseball team this season and you do not have to make that decision today
09:03Clearly you can see what they do in the winter meetings what they do with this roster
09:09But I mean it does feel like this is a critical juncture for fans and their financial commitment to this team
09:15They want to see it matched or exceeded by
09:18management right and that's 50 of them
09:21To four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven. We'll get more your thoughts more your phone calls
09:25It impacts more than 350 people John. It's 97 one