re candlestick park experience long craige sad hp com craig eid writes these things should have been done a long time ago but it took a real businessman ex safeway president peter magowan to figure it out just like he used to tell his checkers if the customers don t come back i don t need as many checkers this isn t a knock on bob lurie he was a competent businessman but he didn t deal much with the general public interesting article craig it s amazing how hard it is to get baseball teams to understand how to properly market their teams and treat their customers no other business could ever get away with the th century attitudes that most current owners display in running their clubs i guess the owners look at baseball s high growth rate and ask why it s necessary to bring th century business practices into the game but they don t realize how much more growth the game is capable of and how much they pay in terms of long term popularity by not doing better by the game and its fans greg
