There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period is just

for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my records

will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

A game between the Oakland Athletics and the Baltimore Orioles in Oakland and has created

quite a stir not just around baseball but also around sports.

I wanted to start immediately with the conversation about why this is happening and it's not

exactly for the reasons that everyone is saying and it makes me smile because I have great

great street cred in this department as someone who ran a team that didn't absolutely draw a lot of

people as someone who made up attendance in order not to have conversations like this except also

didn't make up attendance when it suited me when there were ball parks to be built or teams to be

moved or pressured to be put on the commissioner's office there are myriad reasons why the owner of

the a's who is only involved in a macro level the president of the team who runs the operations

runs the baseball although in the Oakland case it's Billy Bean who runs the baseball side probably

doesn't report to Dave Cavill the president of the a's but either way there are strategic

discussions that you have with the owner but then execution of those discussions happens and

has to be articulated and disseminated by the president so I want to start by telling you

attendance at majorly baseball games is based on your season ticket number that is the single

most important source of attendance in baseball you want to have as many season ticket holders as

possible because a it shows you what your consistent revenue ticket revenue will be throughout the

course of a season but b it gives you a base of attendance every single game so you don't have

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