Of course a continued slide would hurt revenues, but a trade off would almost certainly accelerate it. One might argue the eventual recovery could be faster, but that is a big unknown.
Even as it is, with ticket sales high, we don’t know the associated discounting. And if fewer sold tickets are being used, there is a loss of concession revenue, as well.
They could hold off until the off-season and try to re-ignite interest via some big moves. Like it or not, the wild card enables talk of being competitive until very late into the season.
A tough problem and we don’t have all the data to make an accurate assessment.