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Bounce House: Rangers See Impact Of Crisp Season Opener

Posted on April 8th, 2009 8:44pm by Evan Grant
Filed under Sports business, Texas Rangers

ARLINGTON - Nolan Ryan has attended season openers for more than 40 years now. This is what he had to say about the Rangers performance on Monday:

“Best season opener I’ve ever attended, watched, been a part of.”

And the Rangers reaped the off-the-field benefits, too. After a crowd of 49,916 fans saw the Rangers wax Cleveland 9-1 on Monday, the ticket lines started ringing. The Rangers sold nearly 6,000 tickets between the end of Monday’s game and the start of the Wednesday game. It resulted in a crowd that was expected to be better than 22,000 [UPDATE: Actual crowd is 22,829]. Yes, it’s a big dropoff, but consider last year when the Rangers went from a sell out to 15,560 in the official second game of the season (which was a makeup for a rainout the previous night). It’s a pretty significant step for a team that saw a decline in tickets during the offseason.

It also may help the club in other ways. Big crowds having fun breed more big crowds. And last year, Ranger fans had very little fun when the crowds were largest. The club was 7-12 last year when playing in front of a home crowd of more than 30,000.

“It’s important to have good games in front of your best crowds,” said Executive Vice President for Sales Andrew Silverman. “It helps everything. You want to put on the best show possible. I was very pleased with the way everything turned out.”

The ticket office wasn’t the only group to get some thing out of the energy in the stands.

“It’s going to be fun to watch this team play,” 2B Ian Kinsler said. “If we can have that kind of energy and that kind of activity in the stands all year, we are going to feed off it.”

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One Comment to “Bounce House: Rangers See Impact Of Crisp Season Opener”
  • Tom B @ April 8th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    I see that first Rangers game as a Blueprint for a successful season. It was much better in artistic terms than Victory #2. But they all count.