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The BIG Ticket: 7 Signs Your Opera is Chasing Tactics, Not Strategy

September 7, 2025
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Hannah Grannemann wrote about the Met Opera potentially being “Too Big to Fail” last week. This stuck with me. Thanks for reading Talking Tickets! ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Just like this picture. I’m working on a bigger piece about the Met Opera and its lack of a […]

The BIG Ticket: Dave Wakeman says, “The WNBA Could Have a $1B Team”

hould…already, if you ask me. I was on with Scott Friedman for his Twitter Spaces. I think we had a good conversation. Maybe not as electric and fiesty as Randy Nichols v. Eric Fuller, but I can throw some heat at Scott’s choice of snacks…if that’s what you need to tune in. If you click […]

The BIG Ticket: 3 New Ideas…Tickets & Ferrari?!

Hi! I’ve started to write notes for the folks in the ‘Talking Tickets’ Slack channel. Almost daily. Here’s today’s: Good morning everyone. I’ve been thinking about Ferrari a lot lately. No, I’m not buying one. I want to get back to the point where I don’t have a car. I like to be able to […]

UFL: Is Spring Football a Viable Spring Business?

The UFL’s second championship game ended with the DC Defenders winning their first spring football title. Attendance was down from 27,369 in 2024 to 14,559 in 2025. TV ratings also fell 39% to 983,000 viewers on ABC. This was the story of Year 2 of the UFL: It leads me to the question: Can the UFL become a growing […]

Numbers To Know: ‘The Real Attendance’

Hi! I’m deep in the DW lab, hard at work. I’ve been taking more time to write these longer pieces because I’ve found that they’ve a wider readership. Even if folks like the short hits. I’ll try to mix it up a little bit more. Today, I’m going to talk about a number I call […]

The BIG Ticket: “In God we trust…everyone else bring data.”

Hi! A quick one today. I saw this post on LinkedIn from friend of the newsletter, Drew McManus. I figured I would share my thoughts with you as well. I’m curious what you have to say. This is one area where Drew McManus and I have different opinions. He overheard, “In God we trust…everyone else should bring […]

Beyonce Tickets: Below Face Value?!

Beyonce tickets selling below face on the secondary market Beyoncé is back on tour. Last time she was on tour, Jay-Z ate at one of my neighborhood locals. That was a story for a day or two. So much for DC being a big town. The Cowboy Carter Tour started last week in Los Angeles selling 217,000 […]