Bill Schlough Quotes

You see [ATM ticket] machines in movie theaters and places ... but it's quite a challenge to implement something like that for a stadium, which isn't a general-admission situation, where you have all these different requests that have to access the database of available tickets, ... I tried this the other day, and it was so quick. People [can] wait in a will-call line for so long, and all you have to do here is one swipe. - Bill Schlough

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A lot of the work you do [for a baseball team] is not as glamorous as people would think and not as directly related to play on the field. This is a project where my staff gets to interact with the coaches and players, so they really enjoy it. - Bill Schlough

There has been and continues to be a kind of painful process in converting from all these different, multiple databases to a single one, but it's going to be so worth it to have all that information up to date and accessible to everybody. The ultimate goal is 40,800 seats full -- and we want to keep people in the seats. We don't want a sold-out ballpark with bunches of empty seats. - Bill Schlough

We talked earlier this year with some sponsors who were thinking about providing all of our suites with computers -- laptops or something small -- to give people the ability to access stats and whatever else they might want to do while they're here. - Bill Schlough