Why no weekday afternoon games until June???

[Fenway]

Maybe this has been addressed in another thread but I am shocked that there is not a single afternoon weekday game scheduled at The Cell until June (not counting Opening Day)

I for one love those weekday games as you are there with REAL baseball fans.

Those games early in the year mean so much to older Sox fans who can't afford the night games.

It also means less Nancy :(

What gives????

[Lip Man 1]

School for one thing in April / May

Lip

[oeo]

Originally Posted by Fenway

I for one love those weekday games as you are there with REAL baseball fans.

Or those that don't have school or can get off of work.

What exactly is a "real" fan, anyway? People always throw this "term" around but can never answer that question.

[Fenway]

Originally Posted by oeo

Or those that don't have school or can get off of work.

What exactly is a "real" fan, anyway? People always throw this "term" around but can never answer that question.

Oh I can....

Fans that know the score...and start pondering when it is the 4th innning and there is a zero in the hit column. At Sox Park you get that buzz ...8 miles north not exactly

[roylestillman]

Usually weekday afternoon games are at the end of a homestand and are scheduled as getaway days. All of the homestands in April and May end on Sundays, so they don't need the getaway schedule.

I love weekday afternoon games, too, but attendance-wise they are deadly. Unlesss you can pack in the day camp groups the joint is empty. (Who can forget the Sox/Dodgers Thursday Afternoon "Premium" game.)

[DaveFeelsRight]

Originally Posted by Lip Man 1

School for one thing in April / May

Lip

+ weather

[dllrbll7]

The attendance always sucks at those game and its always imposible to get rid of the tickets for those games, so I'm glad there aren't any. I'm assuming the attendance definately played a factor.

[dickallen15]

Originally Posted by Fenway

Oh I can....

Fans that know the score...and start pondering when it is the 4th innning and there is a zero in the hit column. At Sox Park you get that buzz ...8 miles north not exactly

Ironically, if weekday afternoon games bring out the "real" fans, the team 8 miles north probably plays more of those than any major league team. As a season ticketholder with a job I can't always leave early from, I appreciate the lack of afternoon games during the week. I would welcome them on Saturdays. I love the Saturday afternoon game, but that is also a time kids have little league and other activities in the summer. That's a conflict I suppose the White Sox would like to avoid as much as possible.

[LITTLE NELL]

Fenway, check your Red Sox schedule and you will see that they have a grand total of 2 weekday afternoon games in April and May and one of those is Patriots Day in Boston which is always a late morning game. The other one is a Thurs. get-away day.

[Rohan]

I love this. Gives me an opportunity to watch more games. Really nothing to complain about here.

I think Nancy is trying to work fewer games every year. She loves her job, but dang has she been at it for awhile!

[Jerko]

those are my favorite games. hope they bring them back. as for weather being a factor, I'd rather be out there in the daytime in April than at night. i know a lot of work outings took place at those games, along with day camps, little leagues, and such, so the attendance won't really be much better IMO.

[Daver]

Originally Posted by Lip Man 1

School for one thing in April / May

Lip

Chicago public schools don't get out for the summer until late June.

[Harry Potter]

Its just Fenway being Fenway. For the reasons discussed above I'm a fan of the sched as it stands

[Noneck]

Originally Posted by DaveFeelsRight

+ weather

Actually it is warmer during the day than at night.

[TDog]

Originally Posted by Noneck

Actually it is warmer during the day than at night.

That is why you typically have so many day games at home in Chicago in April (and why you typically have so many day games throughout the year in the Bay Area, where a night game can be brutal to sit though at just about any point in the season). It is also the reason that World Series games, at least on Saturdays and Sundays, should be played during the day, but that is straying from the topic.

In 1976, there were complaints from fans, amplified by Harry Caray,that there were so many night games in April. Harry Caray said it was because the league expected the White Sox to be playing their home games indoors in Seattle.

Playing night games in April won't necessarily increase April attendance. It could hurt April attendance.