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Originally Posted by automaton 3
What sells tickets is winning games, not hyping draft picks (except in Edmonton).
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are you kidding me?!?! HYPE SELLS!! Everyone is (or has been) a "sucker" for hype!! Hype(from a top draft pick)sells tickets, you better believe it!!! Just ask all the people who bought tickets to see the hype of the following draft picks like, Sidney Crosby (his hype basically saved the franchise in Pittsburgh), LeBron James (attendance soared by almost 7000 fans per home game in LeBron rookie season, 7000!!!), Stephen Strasburg (attendance SOARED in his rookie season. Almost 20 000 more fans in attendance on games Strasburg pitch as a rookie!! 20 freaking thousand!!!), Larry Bird & Mark Fidrych. In Mark Fidrychs last 8 games in his rookie season (he was a pitcher), Fidrych drew 334,123 folks out to the ballpark, an average of 41,765 per game - more than double the overall attendance average of 18,224 at Tiger Stadium that year!!!! These are just a few examples I thought of, off the top of my head were draft picks/hype sold tickets, there are many, many more!
Don't kid yourself and think that hype of a top draft pick doesn't sell tickets.