Posted on 05/04/2008 3:36:26 PM PDT by melt
There is a very good reason why most Yankee fans don't care how much their team spends on baseball players. One of the best reasons is that their team keeps asking them - at least the most well-heeled of them - to spend more and more to help pay the freight.
There is a guy I know who has tickets behind the Yankee dugout, has had them for awhile. Last season each seat cost $150 per game. This season, because it is the last season at the old Yankee Stadium, the cost went up to $250. Next season, if he wants to keep the same seats when everybody moves across 161st St. to the new Yankee Stadium, the cost will go to $850 per seat.
If he wants to keep his current seats, he has to sign a minimum four-year contract, and they want a third of the cost of the first year up front. If he goes for that deal, they say the most they can increase him over the term of the contract is 4% a year.
"I told my friends who are going this season, ‘Enjoy yourselves, because you'll never be this close again,'" my friend said Saturday.
Now this isn't the old Lawn Tennis Association out of the 1950s, where everybody was just supposed to play for the love of the game. The Yankees are the biggest baseball business in the world, and running the business costs money. The Mets aren't going to be giving away their "premium" tickets at Citi Field, either. But they haven't set next season's ticket prices yet, perhaps sitting back and tracking the baseball market in the Bronx. Well, it's either a market or a shakedown.
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What I've got a yearning for is this....
wow...now affiliated with the Washington Nationals...oh well...still a heck of a deal!
How much is a hot dog up there?
Cash or Charge?
I’m still supporting the strike of 1995. I’m no scab.
You're thinking of the Columbus Clipppers AAA baseball team. Nobody gives a rat's a** about them.
If the ticket prices weren’t so high at Washington Nationals games, they’ll be nearing a sell-out in their every game since it’s their inaugural year in the new stadium.
Not being the ex-Expos, and not sucking would also help immensely.
A lot of of cash to spend for a game that is a substitute for sleeping pills.
It shows. The strike was in 1994.
thanks for that post RK ..
That would be about it for me.
Let's see 3 or 4 baseball games, crappy food, warm beer, bathrooms that are open urinals, drunk man/boys, crowded parking lots with hours of fun going and coming to the game, ........ or a guitar that will last until I go toes up and room temp.
Sorry fellas, I love the Cowboys but choose to watch from the house with great seats, nice chairs and all the comforts.
About the only live things I'd go to now are Texas Aggie football games, some tennis tournaments or UFC fight. It's a bargain for the price of the ticket.
Of course that 's my opinion and I could be wrong.
Baseball survived the 232-day strike of 1994-95. While full recovery of the game to its former stature remains problematic, it is surely dependent on a prolonged period of labor-management peace. Using a model of collective bargaining set forth in the next section, this article examines the strike and its aftermath, in order to analyze what happened and why. Since 1972, negotiation between the union and owners over contract terms has led to eight work stoppages that have plagued baseball. Hence, there is a clear need for a critical review of the bargaining process
Thank you, Bud Selig.
You’re welcome.
The strike officially ended on 25 April 1995 by a judges order against the owners.
OK. Shoot.
It will cost me about $125 via train RT and stuff to get there and I would be able to pay about $50 just to get in. Of course, I would spend another $30 while there.
Am I just better off to try and get a scalper ticket in front of the park before a game? $325 is just too much.
businessmen who get these free tickets should be taxed as if it were income......that goes for frequent flyer miles , Marriot points, etc......if I have to pay taxes on every single stinking penny, so should they....
Baseball is drawing more fans than ever before. In the “glory years” of the 1950’s, few teams would draw more than one million fans. These days, many teams are drawing 3 million fans.
The $850 tickets are the exception rather than the rule. I have season tickets in Milwaukee. $27/seat (discounted from $36 face value) in the 7th row of the second level behind home plate. Even in Milwaukee, the higher priced tickets sell first. The $75 seats are always full, along with the $35+ seats, while the $14 seats are often empty.
Baseball is still the best bargan in major sports. Upper level bleachers are still $8 in Milwaukee. Fans can still bring in their own food and soft drinks.
The $850 tickets cater to the Wall Street hotshots who can afford the price. It isn’t something I could afford, but those guys help subsidize the reckless spending of the Steinbrenner family.
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