Top seats behind homeplate at Miller Park are $125, and $30.00 will get you some really good seats.
This is a good deal?
Tickets at the NYC ballparks when I was growing up (50s and early 60s) had a TOP price of $3.50 (three dollars and fifty cents)! All box seats were $3.50. All reserved seats were $2.50. General Admission (do they have that anymore?) was $1.25 or $1.50 and bleacher seats were $0.75. And we got to see Willie, Mickey, and the Duke!
I recently looked at the Mets site to see about tickets for my son's birthday. You need to take out a second mortgage for some of the tickets. There are dozens of price levels based upon seat location now; and then these vary depennding upon which team is visiting. I just cannot imagine a bunch of high school kids getting together to go to a game now, the way my friends and I frequently did 35-40 years ago.
The camera angles on the Met telecasts look different to me now. The view from behind the pitcher is sufficiently tight that only the first two rows of seats are visible. They seem to be showing a view from behind first more often that looks toward second base and the distant (and relatively cheaper) left field seats which are mostly full. The usual view from behind home plate looks out to the also full outfield seats which used to cost seventy five cents.
Sometimes there is a pop-up which forces the TV crew to allow a brief glimpse of those pricey seats behind home which are mostly empty now. There will come a time when teams like the Mets wonder what happened to their fan base as this generation's high-schoolers become adults.
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