Yahoo Sports – Cleveland’s average of 14,205 makes places like Miami, Tampa Bay and Kansas City look somewhat decent. The Royals, in fact, are second worst in baseball and average 4,000 more per game than the Indians.
Frank Herrmann told fans to submit nicknames for Indians players and he’d pick the best one and give away a pair of tickets.
Teammate Josh Tomlin saw this and jumped on board, saying he’d do the same thing. They told people to use the hashtag #TribeNames. Fans did and the players gave away tickets.
I have a marketing gimmick for you, how about you goons managing the Indians take some pointers from Major League and start playing “Wild Thing” during the game. That shit really seemed to turn on the fans in the movie. And if you’re gonna throw away money on free tickets you might as well use it and get Charlie Sheen out on the mound, and obviously replace the rosin bag with a bag of coke. I feel like that is the best chance you have of ever salvaging a sellout. If that doesn’t work then just hire Gary Bettman to be co-commissioner, he’s the king of relocating professional sports teams to the south, you know Bud Selig’s lazy ass couldn’t care less about the shit hole that is Cleveland. And also how full of himself is Frank Herrmann, “…but sub 10,000 fans back to back nights to see the hottest team in baseball is not getting it done.” Really dude? You’re on the disabled list and out for the season. Get outta here.
I really think the dumbest part of this whole thing is them forcing fans to come up with nicknames for the players. Like what? You can’t get fans to buy $10 bleacher seats and now you’re asking them to take time out of their day to come up with a clever name for the players? Just give the damn tickets away. Don’t try to make it interesting. Especially Herrmann, who’s obviously bored off his ass on the disabled list just trying to waste time.