Menu
Franchises

MARGE'S ANTICS LEAVE MANY WITH RED FACES IN CINCINNATI

     In Boston, Peter Gammons reports that "there is a bigger
fear" in Cincinnati than the Reds' opening playoff match-up --
"that they won't come close to selling out home dates" for the
first series.  Gammons notes that the Reds are averaging fewer
than 18,000 as they head toward the playoffs, as Marge Schott has
slashed costs throughout the organization.  The Reds have only 10
front office employees and a one-man marketing department.
Gammons: "There are few greater fears in baseball than creeping
Pittsburghism. ... If the crowds continue to dwindle, the park
continues to smell and the franchise is run like a mini-mart in
Yeehaw Junction, Fla., one has to wonder if in two years in the
heart of one of the great baseball cities on earth, Marge Schott
will have turned Riverfront Stadium into another Desolation Row"
(BOSTON GLOBE, 9/17).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/1995/09/18/Franchises/MARGES-ANTICS-LEAVE-MANY-WITH-RED-FACES-IN-CINCINNATI.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/1995/09/18/Franchises/MARGES-ANTICS-LEAVE-MANY-WITH-RED-FACES-IN-CINCINNATI.aspx

CLOSE