I originally posted this in the Wednesday morning links, a little late to the party, didn't think anyone would see it, so I posted again.

On the country and Christian concerts: sponsorship contracts for a couple of more years have us bound to two country concerts and two Christian concerts each year. We can’t change those, again, sponsor driven and the two Christian concerts have sold a ton of group tickets.

Personally and I have expressed this opinion in planning meetings, I think we should get out of the concert business after games. Its tough for us to compete in the concert business with all of the other venues in our area, especially the facility across the street.



It hasn’t been released yet, but there will be a $10 ticket on Tuesdays in 2016. Plus, the parking will be $10 on those Tuesdays. And they are working on a concession item to go along with that.

I tried for a $5 ticket, I failed.



If you do a little work, you can find some sort of discount for a lot of games…Dr Pepper cans, Coca-Cola Family Packs, etc.



On the music, tough to please everyone…but sometimes I think because its baseball and the Rangers, people automatically think they play a bunch of that "country and western stuff"….not accurate. Most of what we play is not any different than other ballparks, today’s hits, classic rock, a lot of Motown, etc. but very little country…Today’s country is not very good, old, hardcore, country music just doesn’t work in a ballpark, unless Conway Twitty owns the team, which I have experienced. But again, tough to please everyone with the music. Just sit tight, somewhere, sometime, I will play something you like…plus, I play a lot of requests…if you want to hear something in the ballpark, send me a tweet or an email and I will take care of you.



We have so much sponsorship elements we have to do between innings, music almost has disappeared now…plus they have cut back the time between innings…



River Fenix is entitled to his opinion, but we have some pretty good giveaways planned in 2016…9 bobble heads, I think its on of the best promotion schedules we have ever had. Again, he is entitled to his opinion, but we have so many MLB rules we have to follow on events and giveaways, I can see why that opinion can be made.

Darren Oliver and I met last year and talked getting more African Americans to come to our games. We even went to a couple of high schools and talked to some kids about baseball.



All of you are such great fans of the Rangers and baseball, if I had it in my power, I would do all I could to fix all of the problems that you have with Rangers Baseball. We have tons of meetings in the off season. I read all of your comments and I bring a lot of your problems up in meetings.



The talk of mass transit at Rangers games is not new, we talked about this being a problem in the 1980s…I once sold a sponsorship to DART when it first started and we had the Rangers Express….$5 bus ride to old Arlington Stadium….it went away because nobody used it after a couple of years. I even led the charge back in the early 2000s to get a bus to pick people up at the TRE stop just south of the airport and bring them to the games…couldn’t get it off the ground.



The new development announced today is going to be similar to the Ballpark Village in St. Louis. Should be pretty good.



After the first of the year, you will hear another announcement on an improvement to the fan experience in the ballpark, one that I have been trying to get done since 1994.



If you have questions or comments, please feel free to email me at cmorgan@texasrangers.com. I really care what you think and I am always bringing up your ideas, comments and suggestions in meetings. Maybe not all of them, walk up music that features common sounds that a human might make, don’t know about that one. Thanks for your support and I hope all of you have a nice holiday time with your families.