GUESTS:
GIANTS PREGAME 320
JOHN MIDDLEKAUFF 430 NFL DRAFT
6 PM BEER
630 REPLAYS ON 150
TOPICS:
WARRIORS
LOSING BY 31: EMBARASSING NOTHING MORE. THEY;LL LIKELY WAKE UP AND SWEEP THE SERIES FROM HERE.
3-1, 31 ........THEY LOST FOCUS AND LA IS AN NBA TEAM..........
| Dan Feldman (@DanFeldmanNBA) | |
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Warriors led the Clippers by 14 points entering the fourth quarter. Teams up 14+ entering fourth quarter of a playoff game had won 110 straight until tonight.
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| Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) | |
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Kevin Durant also took 3 shots and made 1 in the final 5.
Draymond Green and Klay Thompson combined to shoot 3 times and make 1 | |
ANALYTICS CAN SUCK IT
| ESPN (@espn) | |
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The Clippers’ comeback win was UNBELIEVABLE 👏
🔹 Down 31 points with 7:31 left in the 3rd 🔹 0.01% win probability in the 3rd 🔹 72-37 run to close out the game 🔹 Largest comeback in NBA playoff history pic.twitter.com/LLbjYlmHOV | |
-DEFENSE WAS THE ISSUE
| Marcus Thompson (@ThompsonScribe) | |
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Clippers 2nd Half:
*Shot 30-for-45 in the second half (66.7 percent) *Made 7-for-14 from 3 *Went 17-for-19 from the FT line *Scored 22 points off 16 Warriors TOs *Got a combined 46 in second half from Montrezl and Lou | |
| Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) | |
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It was 94-63 with 7:31 left in the third quarter. Clippers outscored the Warriors 72-37 over the final 19.5 minutes. Seventy-two points in less than 20 minutes.
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| Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) | |
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Correction: Kevin Durant had 4 offensive fouls in the second half.
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-NOT ONE THING OR ONE PERSON IS TO BLAME
-NO IT DOENST MEAN ANYTHING LONG TERM ---THE LET DOWN --BUT LOSING COUSINS DOES.
COUSINS IS THE LOSS HERE---THO HE CAME IN FOR MIDLVEL ---IT'S A LOSS----
-COSUSINS IS THE LOSS. -- CAN THEY WIN WITHOUT HIM OF COURSE---HE WAS A BONUS---HE TOOK NICK YOUNG'S MIDLEVEL.
-HELL IT MIGHT MEAN HE COMES BACK ---NOT SUE A TEAM HAS SEEN ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM BIG MONEY--- MAYBE LAKERS ARE DESPERATE ENOUGH IF NO ONE COMES THERE.
DURANT:
-DUANR HAS GOT TO GET HIS MIND RIGHT.
-YOU PUT BEVLERY ON HOM TO TAKE AWAY THE DRIBLLE AND TO ANNOY HIM LIKE A LITTLE BROTHER.
-IT'S WORKING
-IF YOURE ONE OF THE BEST SCORERS EVER THIS SHOULD MEAN NOTHNG ----KOBE, JORDAN, ---THEY EAT THIS GUY ALIVE.
-DURANT IS ELITE PHYSCUALLY, NOT MENTALLY. HE'S AN ALL TIME GREAT, BUT THERE ARE LEVELS. HE SHOULD BE EARTING THIS GUY ALIVE.
-CLIPPERS SHOULD HAVE HAD TO ADJUST.
-OFFICIALLY CALED 4 OFFSNIVE FOULAS ON DURANT IN 2ND HALF--- THEY ARE BUYING INTO THE BEVERLEY HYPE LIKE THEY FEEL SORRY FOR HIM.
-DUARNT 8 SHOTS 9 TURNOVERS, TAKE OVER THE GAME ---HE'S BEEN DEFERING FOR WEEKS --ITS THE PLAYOFFS --LETS GO ---SHOULD BE SCORING 40 A NIGHT........
CLIPPERS MIGHT BE THE DESTINATION IN OFF SEASON NOT KNICKS ---IMAGINE DURANT AND KAWHI ----KAWHI AND KYRIE---KAWHI AND BUTLER....
-CLIPPERS HAVE
-LA
-NON LEBRON MESS
-GOOD OWNER W MONEY
-DOC RIVERS
-ROLE PLAYERS
-HAVE TO WOO FAS
NBA PLAYOFFS:
-76ERS TIE IT
-ROCKETS DOMONATED GM 1
-BLAZERS--OKC CHIPPY --KANTER GM 1
-SPURS MIGHJT BE TOO MUCH FOR NUGGETS
-DONT CARE DETROIT -- MIL
-TOROTNO --WAKE UP LOWRY --1ST ROUND OUT AND KAHI 100 GONE
-CELTICS LOSING SMRT BUT WILL CRUISE B Y INDY
GIANTS: CHANGE THE PARK??? --IT'S AS SIMPLE AS PUTTING BULLPENS IN TRIPLES ALLEY DONE ---400 FOOT HRS--AND NO TRIPPING OVER MIOUNDS---NEXT.
IT'S A REBUILD AND WE LIVE IN A NON HARD CORE SPORTS MARKET ---ITS THE COOL THING WHEN TEAMS WIN ---THE WARRIORS WILL RELIZE IT IN A FEW YEARS, 49ERS GOING THRU IT ---IT'S CALIFORNIA ----WE GET IMPRESSED BY NEW SHINY OBJECTS
| Henry Schulman (@hankschulman) | |
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Some of the crowds at Oracle Park during the first homestand looked shockingly small, compared to years past. #SFGiants are fighting the law of supply and demand, and have taken unprecedented steps to try to soothe season-ticket holders. The story: sfchronicle.com/giants/article…
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ans inside Oracle noticed the emptiness. Some televised angles made it look like a ghost town.
And yet, the Giants’ paid attendance of 28,625 beat all but two of the 10 major-league games that day and evening, the Chicago Cubs’ home opener at Wrigley Field (40,652) and a Cardinals-Dodgers game in St. Louis (35,858).
“As difficult as it was to throw a ‘28’ up there, it was still a good number,” said Russ Stanley, the Giants’ managing vice president of ticket sales and services.
Compared with the rest of baseball, it was. Compared with much of the 20-season history of the ballpark, which has an official capacity of 41,915, not so much.
The relative paucity of fans underscored a fiscal reality for a franchise that boasted a seven-year sellout streak that ended in 2017 and has relied on consistently strong attendance to become one of the sport’s most profitable and bigger-spending teams.
Winning three World Series championships within the past decade and playing in one of the sport’s most beautiful venues cannot immunize the Giants from the laws of supply and demand. If you lose, people will not come — at least not in the numbers they once did.
The Giants averaged 32,165 paid fans during the first homestand, a 10-gamer that ended Sunday, compared with 38,733 after 10 games last year, At this juncture in 2018, the Giants ranked fourth among the 30 teams in average attendance. This year they are 13th.
After 98 losses in 2017 and 89 more last year, the Giants will be hard-pressed to reach 3 million in attendance this year, a threshold they have achieved in all but two seasons since the doors to their downtown stadium opened in 2000.
The club is not conceding yet.
“We’ll be close,” executive vice president of business operations Mario Alioto said. “That’s our goal.”
The Giants were not surprised by anything they saw at the turnstiles during the homestand. They had their ear to the ground and knew this was coming, which is why, as soon as the 2018 season ended with a 15-0 loss to the Dodgers, they launched an unprecedented effort to listen to their best customers, the holders of 30,000 season tickets, to limit defections.
They did not employ their typical paper survey, but instead organized 10 focus groups of season-ticket holders that met throughout the Bay Area. The results were seen by about 100 team executives.
The most significant complaint, which has been ongoing since the sellout streak ended, was the financial hit they were taking when they tried to resell their tickets on the secondary market because of an overabundance of supply. For some midweek night games they were receiving pennies on the dollar if they could sell the seats at all.
Alioto said when that topic surfaced during the focus groups, “that’s when the room lit up,” and not in a good way.
In response, the Giants took a drastic and unpublicized step to boost ticket prices on the resale market. They voluntarily reduced their season-ticket base by 2,500, in addition to the 1,500 they lost through attrition, by curtailing sales to legal ticket brokers, a common industry practice.
The brokers profit by selling tickets to big games at a premium and dumping the others on the secondary market, which further depresses prices.
In another move to assuage season-ticket holders, the Giants for the first time launched an exchange program. Fans who want to dispose of unwanted tickets can swap them for other games, shifting the risk of financial loss from the customers to the team.
With season seats generally ranging from $1,650 to $4,450, those two moves meant the Giants would take a hit in revenue, which they view as a necessary investment to prevent season-ticket holders from fleeing.
Time will tell if these maneuvers have the desired effect. Plenty of $6 seats were available on StubHub for midweek games during the first homestand.
The next homestand, from April 26 to May 1, will be far more attractive, with three games each against the Yankees and Dodgers. As of Monday, Dodgers games were selling for a minimum of $15, the Yankees games $47, on StubHub, which is Major League Baseball’s official reseller.
The Giants made several additional changes:
• Advancing the start time for most weeknight games from 7:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., responding to a mass of season-ticket holders who complained they were getting home too late on school and work nights.
• Enhancing marketing for a “matchmaking” program that introduces fans to others who want to split full-season tickets, a roundabout way of selling partial-season packages.
• Forgoing the annual hike in season-ticket prices, except for charter-seat holders who signed long-term contracts with built-in increases.
• Providing season-ticket holders a 20 percent discount on concessions and team merchandise, and organizing activities such as player meet-and-greets and opportunities to play catch on the field at Oracle Park.
In a bid to attract younger fans, the Giants adopted a popular strategy used elsewhere and introduced a $35 monthly standing-room pass that allows fans to come to every game and roam the ballpark as a social event. The club ripped out several rows of seats in the center-field bleachers to build a gathering spot.
Alioto said many younger fans are not concerned with the “real-estate investment of a seat,” and the club sold 2,500 passes in April. About half were used each game, with that number baked into paid attendance.
In short, the Giants recognize that huge crowds are no longer “gimmes” in a changing market where customers can track fluctuating ticket prices on their smartphones and delay purchases, expecting prices to drop.
The trend is not contained to San Francisco. Attendance throughout the major leagues was down 4 percent last year and dipped below 70 million for the first time since 2003. There were myriad reasons, including an inordinate number of early-season rainouts and teams that chose to “tank” by not acquiring good players, hoping to lower payroll and rebuild.
In some cases, the ballpark itself is a factor. Just ask the A’s, an extreme case, who drew the fifth-fewest fans in the majors (1.57 million) to their aging, crumbling ballpark despite winning 97 games and reaching the playoffs.
Alioto called the focus groups organized by the Giants “eye-opening.”
“We need to learn as much as we can from them so we can be selling more of what the customer wants and not what we want to sell,” he said.
The Giants like to say they are selling “experiences” more than ballgames, that the customers they retain cite the joy of coming to the ballpark with their families, the memories of great seasons like 2010, 2012 and 2014, when the Giants won it all, and the in-game entertainment.
“It’s amazing how m75 any fans brought up the postseason and the World Series, the memories they had, the parents who had been here and passed away,” Alioto said. “That’s what you’re buying into.”
FIX ORACLE --- BULLPENS TO TRIPLES ALLEY --SIMPLE A 400 FOOT SHOT IS A HR ---
..75 IN 2018 2ND TO LAST IN HRS
http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor/_/year/2018/sort/HRFactor
-GET WITH THE TIMES
-HAVE TO WOO FAS
-CUSOMTIZE PARK
-10,12, 14 --ISNT HOW GAMES ARE WON
-BULLPENS ARE AN ISSUE OF INJURY ANYWAY
-TRIPLES ALLEY IS A JOKE ---420 ---400 IS A HR...PERIOD.
-IM 100N FOR IT ---FANS WANT TO SEE RUNS
DO U HAVE TO HIT HRS?
2018-
1. YANKEES 267 --WON 100 GAMES WC.
2. DODGERS 235 --- WON DIVISION, WON NL. 92
3. OAKLAND 227 0- WC 97
4. MILWAUKEE 218 --WON DIVIISON NLCS. 96
5. TOROTNO - 217 ---73 WINS
6. CLEVELAND 216 91 WINS WON DIVISION
7. ANGELS 214 80 WINS
8. COLORADO 210 0---WC 91
9 BOSTON 208 -WON WORLD SERIES 108 WINS
10 HOUSTON 205 --WON AL WEST 103 WINS
AVE WINS: 93.9 (3 TEAMS WON 100, 5 MORE WON 90+)
8 PLAYOFF TEAMS, BOTH WS TEAMS, WS CHAMPS.
BOTTONM 5:
30 MIAMI 128 63 WINS
29 SF 133 73
28 DETROIT 135 64 WINS
27 TAMPA 150 90 WINS
26 KC 155 58 WINS
AVERAGE: 69.6 WINS / 0 PLAYOFFS
49ERS:
-ADDICTED TO DRAFT NETWORK MOCK DRAFTS
49ERS:
IF TRUE, NOT GOOD NEWS FOR 49ERS: (I MAY LIKE JOSH ALLEN BETTER ANYWAY) --IT MIGJHT BE MACK VS CLOWNEY
NFL:
WHY GIVE WILSON 35M IF YOU RUN THE BALL AND PLAY DEFENSE??? HES NOT BREES, BRADY, RODGERS ----GET 3 1'S
| Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) | |
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Full details for the #Seahawks and QB Russell Wilson: 4 new years, $140M. $65M to sign. Total guarantee: $107M. A no-trade clause. ... Now, Wilson is under contract for 5 years and $157M. And staying in Seattle.💰💰💰
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| Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) | |
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Highest paid by APY ...
June '16: Andrew Luck, $24.6M June '17: Derek Carr, $25.0M Sept. '17: Matthew Stafford, $27.0M Feb. '18: Jimmy Garoppolo, $27.5M March '18: Kirk Cousins, $28.0M May '18: Matt Ryan, $30.0M Aug. '18: Aaron Rodgers, $33.5M April '19: Russell Wilson, $35.0M | |
| The MMQB (@theMMQB) | |
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At a January meeting, a source says, the Oakland A’s offered Kyler Murray an additional $14M—giving him NFL first-round money—and a guarantee he’d be on their 40-man roster. @RobertKlemko on the draft’s most compelling, and perplexing, prospect:
go.si.com/LzJ0TTj pic.twitter.com/crVnat0XCj | |
DRAFT STOEY LINES:
-BOSA OR ALLEN ??
1. CARDS AT 1 -- DECLINGIN INTEREST OR LOOKING FOR TRADE?
2. RAIDERS 3 PICKS -WH
AT DO THEY DO ?
3. OTHER QBS ---HASKINS, LOCK, JONES
4. JETS AT 3 -- IF ITS MURRAY, BOSA --DO THEY GO QUINNEN, JOSH ALLEN, JUWAN TAYLOR
5. METCALF
-OTHER RUSHERS---
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/04/16/draft-misinformation-smokescreens-arizona-cardinals-first-pick-kyler-murray
| Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks) | |
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April 1st confidence meter:
Kyler Murray will be 1st overall pick (90%) April 15th confidence meter: Kyler Murray will be 1st overall pick (60%) | |
| Odds Shark (@OddsShark) | |
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Odds to win the NFC West:
Rams -175 Seahawks +350 49ers +450 Cardinals +1600 | |
NFL:
DEBO SAMUEL -- I WANT THIS GUY FOR THE 49ERS---HEY BILLY SEE YOU IN A MONTH MY MAN.......
https://twitter.com/tomecurran/status/1117079879688839169
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