So... about this auction timeline and the "too late to pivot" thing.
One thing that has struck me, and it's not going to be well-received by the Yotes' faithful. This is not an intentional dunk, or a drive-by.
If the concern out there is a Lame Duck season, is it really though? In its normal context, a Lame Duck season would mean drastic, or even perhaps catastrophic, drops in attendance. To a market that averaged, say 12K-14K before the announcement, and attendance dropped 40% (as an example), people everywhere would be losing their minds.
For this situation though, we're already in an attendance bubble of 4,100 - 5,000 fans at The Mullet. Even if that 40% percentile happens, we're talking roughly half of the already-average attendance there? So roughly 2K people say "Screw this, I ain't going!" Compared to a larger venue's drop off's?
I'd be hard pressed to believe attendance would drop, to be honest. If it's truly the end, the Swan Song, they're leaving after 2024-2025 season concludes, I can actually see it being Standing Room Only.