San Juan

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mets possibly returning to Hiram Bithorn:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/11/23/2009-11-23_mets_may_pack_for_puerto_rico.html

Back in the olden days, when the collapsing Expos used HB as its second home park, the Mets were a big deal because they had the highest profile --- though no longer the best --- Puerto Rican star, in Roberto Alomar. Now, Beltran (and possibly a returning Delgado) has got to make the Mets a favorite opponent for a Florida team desperate for a way to draw a crowd.

The problem with that thinking is that the Mets were probably the best draw the Marlins had anyhow.

[metirish]

IIRC some of the games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium didn't sell out and after a while the novelty of MLB was gone.

[MFS62]

I'd like the opening shot of the telecast to be the statue of Roberto Clemente outside the stadium.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

IIRC some of the games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium didn't sell out and after a while the novelty of MLB was gone.[/quote:1xnz8aab]

No, but still outsold the Big O, probably. And may outsell a Miami stadium on death row.

Jeffrey Loria, the owner who gets kicked to Puerto Rico.

[metirish]

I'm trying to figure out if the Puerto Rico Baseball League season is on now, I'd like to go see a game at Hiram Bithorn while I'm there.(dec.29- jan. 12)

That's true about ticket sales in San Juan versus sales in Montreal.



EDIT

Looks like the season started 11/12

[Frayed Knot]

The problem with games in PR is that they can't really charge ML prices for the seats, which means that unless they're drawing a lot more people into the stadium it's tough to make it work money-wise.
So, yeah, while they can probably improve on Florida's attendance with a short slate of games there, they'd be doing so by robbing what are likely their best attendance games to start with, not to mention pissing off a lot of FLA-based Met fans to boot.