Orioles promotion takes aim at Sunday skid
The above headline comes from an article in Monday’s Baltimore Sun which highlights the Baltimore Orioles current promotion for today’s game against the Texas Rangers. "If the Orioles defeat the Rangers Sunday, the ‘We Win, You Win’ promotion will reward fans with a complimentary ticket in the same seating category to any future non-prime game." The reason for this promotion is because the O’s have a record of 1 win and 12 losses this season on Sundays. But I wonder if the promotion would draw more fans if instead of rewarding the fans for a win if it served as sort of a money back guarantee, meaning if the O’s lose then each fan in attendance would get to go to another game as sort of a refund for having to suffer yet another loss.
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The odds for fan satisfaction would appear to be much more in favor of your proposal. However what you are actually proposing is that the O's fans actually root against the home team. Right? This is quite the conundrum.
Posted by: Rooster427 | July 8, 2008 7:28 PM
I guess you could look at my proposal as a win-win situation: "We win, you win" (because you are happy that we won), "We lose, you win" (because you get free tickets). But in the actual situation, it was lose-lose because the Os lost on Sunday.
Posted by: Bob | July 11, 2008 8:06 PM