WC in slump...chance for USA to rescue

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WC in slump...chance for USA to rescue

Well, see that ticket sales for the WC aren't going so hot. No real
surprise if you know how things are done in the Windies. Course, the
ICC could turn the WC into an instant media bonanza by inviting a
team of Yank pro baseballers to represent the USA. Hell, all the
major leaguers are right down there in Florida for Spring training at that time. Just
buzz 'em over for a few WC matches...and watch tricket sales go
through the roof. Another suggestion, less involved: the major Windies
resorts and hotels should offer introductory cricket lessions for all their
Yank tourists. Could bring a lot of otherwise uninterested Yanks into the
stadia. But that'd require imagination, something
totally absent from Inpirationless Cricket Council, not to mention Windies
cricket. Looks like the 2007 WC will be as poor as the South African one.
 
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You're delusional. You want the ICC to make a farce out of cricket. You have no respect for the game of cricket, I don't know why you like it. If you think cricket is a nice little game that baseball players can master in a few weeks I really wish you'd turn your attention to some other sport.
 
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timmyj51;130018 said:
Well, see that ticket sales for the WC aren't going so hot. No real
surprise if you know how things are done in the Windies. Course, the
ICC could turn the WC into an instant media bonanza by inviting a
team of Yank pro baseballers to represent the USA. Hell, all the
major leaguers are right down there in Florida for Spring training at that time. Just
buzz 'em over for a few WC matches...and watch tricket sales go
through the roof. Another suggestion, less involved: the major Windies
resorts and hotels should offer introductory cricket lessions for all their
Yank tourists. Could bring a lot of otherwise uninterested Yanks into the
stadia. But that'd require imagination, something
totally absent from Inpirationless Cricket Council, not to mention Windies
cricket. Looks like the 2007 WC will be as poor as the South African one.
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Please stop with this idiodic drivel... it's starting to get tedious.
 
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The american baseballers aren't even the best baseballers in the world

They lost the World Baseball Classic
 
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No doubt about it. Dehring screwed up bigtime. How many junkets did
this guy make to Brooklyn and Miami trying to hawk tickets to the
ex-pat community while totally ignorning the huge number of Yank tourists
in the Caribbean! My prediction: gonna see rows and rows of empty
seats in these WC matches while thousands of afflulent, sports savvy,
Yanks will be laying on the Caribbean beaches not even aware the WC
is taking place.
 
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timmyj51;130204 said:
No doubt about it. Dehring screwed up bigtime. How many junkets did
this guy make to Brooklyn and Miami trying to hawk tickets to the
ex-pat community while totally ignorning the huge number of Yank tourists
in the Caribbean! My prediction: gonna see rows and rows of empty
seats in these WC matches while thousands of afflulent, sports savvy,
Yanks will be laying on the Caribbean beaches not even aware the WC
is taking place.
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It's a pity. It will be the last time the West Indies get to host such a big event if they don't patronise it.
 
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400,000 WC tickets still unsold....thousands of affluent,
bat-and-ball savvy, Yanks laying on the Caribbean
beaches...don't even know WC going on....can you say "screwup"?
 
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What are you talking about?

Why in the world would some people on vacation who've never even heard of cricket before want to spend 8 hours of their day watching a game they don't understand between 2 countries they care nothing about?


Think about it timmy: who in their right mind would spend 8 hours watching a game they don't understand? Especially people who'd rather be sitting on a beach on vacation.
 
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"who in their right mind would spend 8 hours watching a game..."


Who in the world says they have to stay the full eight hours?


"...they don't understand?..."


And shouldn't this obstacle have been precisely addressed
by WC organizers? During all the hours and hours of
market strategy did any one ever say, "Hey, there's
gonna be a heck of a lot of foreign tourists here. Maybe
we should reach out to them, do something to
attract them to matches." Need I remind everyone that
WC organizers were MANDATED to use the event to
raise cricket's visibility.



"...Especially people who'd rather be sitting on a beach on vacation..."



All the time? Every day? Variety is what people on
vacation want.
 
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"In a tradition dating back to 1935, hundreds of thousands of students
go on cheap tourism packages to..the Caribbean Islands."


...but Dehring NEVER thought of promoting ticket sales to free-spending,
fun-loving, sports eager, college age Yanks.


"accomodations...may be scarce or unavailabe."


WC tickets sure aren't scarce or unavailable.



Common sense logic:


Thousands of Yanks in Caribbean during WC: 1

Thousands of unsold WC tickets: + 1

Should market WC tickets to
Yanks vacationing in Caribbbean: = 2


Logic of Dehring:

xome cricket ex-pats in NY/Florida: 1

Thousands of unsold WC tickets: + 1

Should market WC tickets
to few ex-pats in states: = 1
 
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i had to take you off my ignore list, it is just too much fun.


why the hell would visiting Yank college students want to watch cricket? none of them know anything about the game
 
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"why the hell would visiting Yank college students want to watch cricket?"


Why the hell would they want to drink foreign beer, listen to foreign
music, eat foreign food, and drive on the wrong side of the road?
can you say: curiosity, fascination, trying something-new, you know, the
very things college kids do.


"none of them know anything about the game"



Things Dehring never dreamed of when at power lunches trying to
market WC:

1) run some participant cricket games at major tourist resorts/hotels
and invite Yanks to join in.

2) have some "open house" days at first-class cricket grounds where
foreigners can come and learn by playing.

3) arrange "go native" cricket days, where a local volunteers to go with Yanks to
cricket match and help explain game.
 
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timmyj51;132201 said:
Why the hell would they want to drink foreign beer, listen to foreign
music, eat foreign food, and drive on the wrong side of the road?
can you say: curiosity, fascination, trying something-new, you know, the
very things college kids do.
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college kids don't do any of those things.

only way to get college kids to go to the WC matches is to give them free beer.
 
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Bluto11;132207 said:
college kids don't do any of those things.
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Not true. I listen to foreign music and sometimes eat foreign food.
 
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Stamislav;132230 said:
Not true. I listen to foreign music and sometimes eat foreign food.
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i'm making a gross generalization for most college students.

i didn't fit the generalization I am making when i was at school (graduated 2 years ago) but I think I'm pretty much dead on.

if you offer free beer, then you will get American students to a cricket match
 
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Bluto11;132233 said:
if you offer free beer, then you will get American students to a cricket match
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This is correct.
 
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There ya go. Free round of Red Stripe on the match
grounds with every WC ticket Yank college kids buys.
Ya reading this, Mr. Dehring?
 
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There ya go. Free round of Red Stripe on the match
grounds with every WC ticket Yank college kid buys.
Ya reading this, Mr. Dehring?
 
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