Gilbert Martinez

Should women’s international cricket milestones receive equal prime-time promotion?

Here is what actually filled the MCG: a Katy Perry concert, International Women's Day, twenty-dollar tickets, and months of creative marketing by people who treated the final like an event instead of an obligation. [ICC](https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/katy-perry-set-to-roar-at-icc-womens-t20-world-cup-final-on-international-womens-day) The 86,174 record did not come from a rule. It came from imagination. Mandates produce compliance: a promo aired at the contractually minimum hour to a half-empty room. Creativity produces crowds. If you want more MCG nights, do not legislate equal promotion. Hire the marketers who pulled off the last one and get out of their way.

fewer, better theaters is probably the future. the gross sticky ones deserve to go

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Strongest version of this argument I have seen on here, and I say that as someone who leans the other way. The conditional funding point deserves a real answer, not just 'that would never happen.' It happened. Twice. The pro side needs to explain what guardrails would stop a third time.

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