What is the face value of these SRO tickets??
Nobody complains about the secondary ticket market when you are able to attend games early in the season for significantly under face value. All summer you could find tickets to games at Citifield & Yankee Stadium on Stubhub for less than the cost of a movie. The playoffs are a big event & people value being at these big events, but if you're a real baseball fan, your perfectly happy with a $10 ticket to see the Marlins on a Tuesday night.
Sports Derangement Syndrome is a fundamental building block of the extortion economy.
The American 'free-market' demands extortion, not just for sports tickets, but for cell phone service, cable TV service, prescription drugs, healthcare and a range of other American products.
The Great American Rip-Off is a timeless classic.
The American 'free-market' demands extortion, not just for sports tickets, but for cell phone service, cable TV service, prescription drugs, healthcare and a range of other American products.
The Great American Rip-Off is a timeless classic.
Like most things in music and sports, tickets have gone beyond the pocketbook of the middle class, if there indeed is still a middle class in this country. The price to watch a game in the freezing cold and pay $7 for a hot dog, $9 for beer and $25 to park is nothing short of robbery. I have not been to CitiFiled yet because bringing my family of 4 would cost in excess of $350- to watch a baseball game! What has this country come to? The real fans can't afford season tickets, and can barely scrape enough cash to take heir son or daughter to a game.
As to the guy who asked how much my cable bill cost? I pay $150 per month and have access to more entertainment than you can imagine. Comparing a cable bill to a baseball ticket price is asinine. I'll sit home, drink and eat what I want in the comfort of both my home and family and experience the highs or lows with equal gusto as those in the stadium. But, I'll still have $350 in my pocket to pay my electric, food and cable bill. All without having to fight traffic to get home.
As to the guy who asked how much my cable bill cost? I pay $150 per month and have access to more entertainment than you can imagine. Comparing a cable bill to a baseball ticket price is asinine. I'll sit home, drink and eat what I want in the comfort of both my home and family and experience the highs or lows with equal gusto as those in the stadium. But, I'll still have $350 in my pocket to pay my electric, food and cable bill. All without having to fight traffic to get home.
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Sad to say, but it looks like the Royals are gonna win it all. Speaking of scalpers, wasn't the governor trying to move his Mets tickets as well?
I could never do SRO events due to a bad back. If people want to spend that kind of money to stand up for 3 hours good for them.
others likely can find much better things to do with that kind of money.
Being a rabid sports fan ain't cheap!
I could never do SRO events due to a bad back. If people want to spend that kind of money to stand up for 3 hours good for them.
others likely can find much better things to do with that kind of money.
Being a rabid sports fan ain't cheap!
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Resale of tickets should be illegal. Period. Let the ball clubs exclusively sell the tickets and get rid of the unbridled rise in the cost of attending games. Never mind the hundreds of dollars for standing room only, there are tickets on StubHub right now for directly behind home plate for $12,999 for tomorrow night's game. Or some cheaper ones in the same area for $5,000. This is ridiculous and stupid. I'm sure the face value wasn't cheap either, but really, who can afford these ticket prices other than corporations and 1%ers.
I was at the NLCS game when Pete Rose and Bud Harrelson had the fist fight in 1973. Face value $5. And then I attended game 4 of the World Series in 1973. Second row, upper deck all the way at the end of the stadium. I watched Jon Matlack warm up in the bull pen. And I could see the top of Rusty Staub's head. Froze my butt off at that game, but I was one happy 12 year old! Face value of ticket, $15. The only playoff games I've attended since then were Yankee games when I got the tickets for free.
The games are too late at night for this time of year. It's too cold and that can affect the players/game also. Tickets are too expensive. Will there be any fans left in a decade or so? I know the starting time of the games won't change thanks to tv. But the price could become more reasonable. I can only hope.
I was at the NLCS game when Pete Rose and Bud Harrelson had the fist fight in 1973. Face value $5. And then I attended game 4 of the World Series in 1973. Second row, upper deck all the way at the end of the stadium. I watched Jon Matlack warm up in the bull pen. And I could see the top of Rusty Staub's head. Froze my butt off at that game, but I was one happy 12 year old! Face value of ticket, $15. The only playoff games I've attended since then were Yankee games when I got the tickets for free.
The games are too late at night for this time of year. It's too cold and that can affect the players/game also. Tickets are too expensive. Will there be any fans left in a decade or so? I know the starting time of the games won't change thanks to tv. But the price could become more reasonable. I can only hope.
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Agreed. These absurd prices leave the majority outside. I still have my ticket stub from the '76 Series vs Big Red Machine at Yankee Stadium. I was a working class high school kid. All I did was wait in line in the rain a couple of hours at the Stadium when tickets went on sale. My friends and I sat in the bleachers and had the greatest time. Ticket price (including city sales tax) $2.
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I still have ticket stubs from Game #4 of the '73 WS at Shea, $10 each, including 85 cents NYC tax. I don't remember who won, but it was cold enough to require a brandy flask to make it thorough the game.
I guess I'm the only person who finds it disgustingly mind-boggling that STUBHUB would have a huge advertisement proudly displayed in Citifield's outfield. So who's going to complain about $740 for an SRO ticket? Why not $7400? Whatever the scalpers can get....
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How would anyone get that kind of money?
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You gotta believe!
Barnum was right, of course.
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I will admit, as an attendee of Games 1 and 7 of the '86 Series (I had a Saturday plan), that I thought the price of $40 for nosebleed down the first base line was high. Yikes.
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Plus you get to freeze at no extra cost. Pity the "poor" viewers forced to watch at home on their big screen TVs and a full refrigerator filled with beer and snacks and where it is warm. I guess some of us have to suffer who can't afford $750 for standing room and a partial view from far away.
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Question? What is your yearly cable bill?
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My User ID is a goof, first of all.
I have been to 700 or 800 pro sports games, and while the price of tickets is insane, if you can be at an event that is an all-time great game which I have been to many in basketball, baseball boxing and tennis (not so much football and hockey) it beats sitting at home watching on an LCD monitor.
There is nothing like being there.
The problem really in the last 5-10 years after the renovations and so-called improvements to stadiums and arenas is that most fans of sports or concerts are not true fans and are foreigners hipsters or CEO's or Presidents of Corporations. So even being at a game in recent years in all major sports, the crowd is much quieter and subdued and many are not even in their seats, they are watching in clubs with heating and air conditioning on screens. If they walked 40 or 50 feet to their ACTUAL SEAT, they could ACTUALLY WATCH THE GAME they paid insane prices to attend
I have been to 700 or 800 pro sports games, and while the price of tickets is insane, if you can be at an event that is an all-time great game which I have been to many in basketball, baseball boxing and tennis (not so much football and hockey) it beats sitting at home watching on an LCD monitor.
There is nothing like being there.
The problem really in the last 5-10 years after the renovations and so-called improvements to stadiums and arenas is that most fans of sports or concerts are not true fans and are foreigners hipsters or CEO's or Presidents of Corporations. So even being at a game in recent years in all major sports, the crowd is much quieter and subdued and many are not even in their seats, they are watching in clubs with heating and air conditioning on screens. If they walked 40 or 50 feet to their ACTUAL SEAT, they could ACTUALLY WATCH THE GAME they paid insane prices to attend
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That's a lot to put down for what could turn out to be a bitter disappointment, but the Mets didn't and hopefully won't again this season. I can empathize with my Mets fan friends; as a Yankees fan I still (of course) remember being at Reggie's 3 HR game in '77, but I didn't see any of them. I only remember seeing the final out. I got to be there for free, working the game as a Yankee Stadium vendor.
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If your son is not pitching, why would you pay $740.00 for a SRO ticket?
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Because professional sports have taken on completely too much importance in some people's lives...
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Some people care a lot about things and like to spend money on them.
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I guess who am I to say really, but maybe because professional sports have taken on completely too much importance in some people's lives?