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Something stupid and then it becomes front page news all around the country? >> here is liability. >> absolutely. they're being careful. and if i owned the business, i would be careful as well. but at the same time, the terrorists have won in this particular case. keep in mind, the federal government says absolutely no information that there is a credible threat and yet, some people are thinking, well, would north korea send a terrorist squad to a new york city premiere? absolutely not. no information to that. >> but it's so much beyond seth rogen who produced it, it's so much beyond whether y...

They want it to feel better and we're literally in all 50 states in the course of a year. i think what's going to happen is they're going to vote for whoever they think can get their jobs back. plain and simple, if they think it's obama, they're going to vote for him, if it's romney, they'll vote for him. it's coming down to that simple of a choice. a lot of the other issues are going to the side. >> we see a loft positivity. things are feeling like they're getting a little better every day as we say in that song. you see people, you finally got to this place where they go, well, i don't know ...

Lottery's unfairness. back in 2000. >> the disprore portionate number of people who consistently buy lottery tickets tend to be lower-income and working-class people who, can least afford t. even if they are not compulsive gambler, they are probably spending money that they don't necessarily have. now, we might say that this is their entertainment dollar, the same way that someone else has entertainment dollar on a movie. but i think the fact that the state systematically target what is we know to be lower-income persons as a way to raise revenue is troublesome. >> sean: targeting? even this i...

Lottery's unfairness. back in 2000. >> the disprore portionate number of people who consistently buy lottery tickets tend to be lower-income and working-class people who, can least afford t. even if they are not compulsive gambler, they are probably spending money that they don't necessarily have. now, we might say that this is their entertainment dollar, the same way that someone else has entertainment dollar on a movie. but i think the fact that the state systematically target what is we know to be lower-income persons as a way to raise revenue is troublesome. >> sean: targeting? even this i...

Which is as much as we had in the last couple of years. we had a couple of crowds of over 8,000 where we had standing room only tickets in the picnic areas. 15 sellouts this year. we are at about 95% capacity so far this season. >> and minor league low cost concessions help, too. when was the last time you could buy a hot dog and soda at a sporting event for six bucks. even a beer costs about five. minor league ball attracted 7.5 million fans in attendance alone and major league ballgames had a 6.1% drop. families say it comes to how to spend their entertainment dollar. >> we were able to affo...