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delmar2debaliviere2downtown wrote: ↑

4:33 AM - Apr 23

Freebird is a good victory song. It is having a widely popular moment post the Anheuser Busch super bowl commercial. If we could get it to stick, all for it

I would love to see them use a manual scoreboard (they have the one from Busch II by the concourse). I imagine the Sportsman Park one is somewhere….

I’ve long thought they should bring the light up AB eagle sign into the ballpark that is sitting along I-64 and turn on its lights and animations after home runs. Talk about perfect advertising


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Apparently the light up AB sign from their recently shuttered Newark brewery is coming to St Louis. I’m not sure where they are putting it though.

I'm still somewhat annoyed that the Rawlings Co. did not put their HQ at Ballpark Village or somewhere near it.  The giant glove would have been a natural fit there.  Talking about a missed opportunity. 

courtland wrote:I'm still somewhat annoyed that the Rawlings Co. did not put their HQ at Ballpark Village or somewhere near it.  The giant glove would have been a natural fit there.  Talking about a missed opportunity. 

I have no idea if Rawlings would have any interest but I still think there’s an opportunity for them to open a Gold Glove Museum at BPV. The Rawlings Experience at Westport is more of a store than a museum. The museum part is literally just one room. They would definitely have enough artifacts and history to fill out a bigger museum at BPV

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2:54 PM - Apr 23

I'm still somewhat annoyed that the Rawlings Co. did not put their HQ at Ballpark Village or somewhere near it.  The giant glove would have been a natural fit there.  Talking about a missed opportunity. 

I have no direct evidence of this really but it's such a no brainer to put that Rawling branded experience downtown by the baseball stadium that I have to think there was some sort of large dispute between DeWitt et all and the Rawlings execs who were negotiating the potential lease.  Meaning, DeWitt was asking for too much $$. again, no evidence. 

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2:25 PM - Apr 23

Debaliviere91 wrote: ↑

11:41 AM - Apr 23

delmar2debaliviere2downtown wrote: ↑

4:33 AM - Apr 23

Freebird is a good victory song. It is having a widely popular moment post the Anheuser Busch super bowl commercial. If we could get it to stick, all for it

I would love to see them use a manual scoreboard (they have the one from Busch II by the concourse). I imagine the Sportsman Park one is somewhere….

I’ve long thought they should bring the light up AB eagle sign into the ballpark that is sitting along I-64 and turn on its lights and animations after home runs. Talk about perfect advertising


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Apparently the light up AB sign from their recently shuttered Newark brewery is coming to St Louis. I’m not sure where they are putting it though.

That's actually along the same lines I was thinking about... was that though Busch Stadium is named after a beer, I don't think they quite do the STL "beer history" justice there... Maybe they could put a history of AB Beer can statues around the stadium to take photos with? or maybe even a bronzed statue of the prohibition cart return of beer that you can climb up and take a photo with? 

The story I've heard (and find hilarious) is that, when Gussie Busch bought Sportsman's Park from the Browns in 1953, he tried to rename it "Budweiser Stadium" after his flagship beer, but the league wouldn't allow it. He then decided to rename it after himself, which the league did allow, and then, for completely unrelated reasons, decided to release a beer also named after himself.

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Debaliviere91 wrote: ↑

11:41 AM - Apr 23

delmar2debaliviere2downtown wrote: ↑

4:33 AM - Apr 23

Freebird is a good victory song. It is having a widely popular moment post the Anheuser Busch super bowl commercial. If we could get it to stick, all for it

I would love to see them use a manual scoreboard (they have the one from Busch II by the concourse). I imagine the Sportsman Park one is somewhere….

I’ve long thought they should bring the light up AB eagle sign into the ballpark that is sitting along I-64 and turn on its lights and animations after home runs. Talk about perfect advertising


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Apparently the light up AB sign from their recently shuttered Newark brewery is coming to St Louis. I’m not sure where they are putting it though.

That's actually along the same lines I was thinking about... was that though Busch Stadium is named after a beer, I don't think they quite do the STL "beer history" justice there... Maybe they could put a history of AB Beer can statues around the stadium to take photos with? or maybe even a bronzed statue of the prohibition cart return of beer that you can climb up and take a photo with? 

Busch beer is named after the stadium actually

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The Gold Glove on top of a BPV tower would be awesome. The experience would certainly make more money by Busch Stadium. I’m not saying downtown is always best for business, but in this case it wouldn’t be close. I’m kind of just hoping when development kicks off again at BPV, this is a door that can reopen for Rawlings to move to BPV

I like the Budweiser cans/bottles idea. I am imagining something similar to the outfield at the SF Giants park (the glove, coke bottle, etc)

I’ve also wondered if we could get a Clydesdale parade tradition more often than Opening Day. More like once every weekend home series or something

This might be an oddball idea, but there’s a lot of parking lot and a lot of land around Busch still. Has there ever been a flotation of an idea to use a parcel to develop a youth sports complex (baseball, softball, flexible soccer/lacrosse/football fields)? I’m thinking mostly of the land on the south side of the interstate. These things are activity machines and hotel tax havens. Could be a more creative idea that would feed activity into Busch, BPV and downtown in general


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Has anyone ever done a rough calculation of the amount of money the City takes in annually with the 1% tax that is levied on all baseball players who play in a baseball game, visiting team included?

$1.65-1.85m a year. Basically less than Stifel or any other large downtown firm

About 13 cardinals players pay it on away too, since they’re city residents

dbInSouthCity wrote:$1.65-1.85m a year. Basically less than Stifel or any other large downtown firm

About 13 cardinals players pay it on away too, since they’re city residents

Cardinals and sports teams in general are not really "large" firms though. Their revenue is sitting in the $400M range and the company is worth less than $3 billion.

According to the BJ, the Cardinals are only the 59th largest private company by revenue, behind LHM, McBride, and HOK.

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