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[Edgy MD]

Meet Lou DePaoli, the Mets new (and first-ever) chief revenue officer.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Interesting.

Here's the pdf of that thrilling looking cover story.

http://www.smc.org/sites/default/files/March%202013%20DB%20Web.pdf

[metirish]

Seems like part his job is to put arses in seats ...

After DePaoli joined the Pirates, the club saw baseball's fourth-largest percent increase in attendance between 2009 and 2012

they also had a bunch of young exciting players......best of luck, a packed CF is fun.

[Ceetar]

metirish wrote: Seems like part his job is to put arses in seats ... After DePaoli joined the Pirates, the club saw baseball's fourth-largest percent increase in attendance between 2009 and 2012 they also had a bunch of young exciting players......best of luck, a packed CF is fun.

but had 17 sellouts last year?! In a year they finished under .500 and was a lot like the Mets season really.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Nobody knew how to put asses in the seats better than Bill Veeck. I'd take a page out of the Veeck playbook and install an exploding scoreboard. With real explosives. You know why.

[ashie62]

With Charlie Finley currently dead I believe the Mets made an excellent hire..

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I remember taking a look at the Pirates' promotion calendars several times over the last few years and coming away pretty damn impressed-- both by volume (they had SOMETHING going virtually every home game) and by the fun/fanbase-nurturing nature of 'em (Pirate Pierogie figures, bobbleheads of guys like Bob Walk and Tekulve, Pirate-alum meet-and-greets during EVERY weekend homestand).

[Edgy MD]

Huey Lewis & the News concerts > Foreigner concerts.