Nationals Park Questions

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

The Bullpen's role as purveyor of choice of frozen LPR drinks has been supplanted by Salt Line

[JCA-CrystalCity]

https://www.federalbaseball.com/washington-nationals-news/91036/new-nationals-head-business-operations-jason-sinnarajah-teases-ballpark-tuneup

Sallick interviews Jason Sinnarajah on the ballpark experience. Jason says  a tune up in the works for the ballpark. Attendance has been off  4000 so far this year.

Sinnarajah:

It is a 19 year old ballpark, and there are areas that need to be refreshed. It needs to be modernized in some areas, our premium areas need to be better, our concession experience needs to be better, our connection to Half Street and the community could be better. People are going to walk in here in a few years and see an experience they can be really proud of

Concession prices:

Another thing Sinnarajah is aware of is the Nationals reputation for having some of the most expensive beer in the league. When you go on the internet, you see graphics that list the Nats as having the most expensive beer. So, I asked him what steps the organization has made on the affordability side of things.

Sinnarajah told me that he sees those graphics when he is surfing the internet. However, he told me, “I understand there are people that think we still have beer at $15.75 only. That is not true, we launched $8.99 16 ounce cans of Budweiser and Bud light. Sometimes there are these old habits and hearsay. Like I have been saying since Spring Training, I cannot speak to what happened here before and all the challenges we have had, but what we can do is listen to our fans and hope they come to the ballpark with an open mind. Hopefully they like the experience, and if they don’t we want to hear the feedback so we can get better”.

Looks for fan feedback and data on how  to improve the fan experience.

[machpost]

Nothing is going to improve. They're also screwing season plan holders by blacking out this weekend's games for exchanges with very little notice. Some people have suggested that this might go against their contract with SPHs. Don't know if that's accurate, but man, I would LOVE to see a lawsuit.

The only positive is that they jacked up the face value of tickets in my tier to more than double what I paid for them as a SPH, and I was able to sell them quickly for a nice profit. It's been many years since I've actually made money selling my season tickets.