Posted on 03/15/2024 9:52:43 PM PDT by 4Runner
Today is the first day of March Madness so I thought I might grab a ticket and go see the Yankees play Toronto at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. Well, guess again. Prices range from $149.00 to $239.00 and are only that cheap because all of the more expensive seats have been sold out and those are the only ones left. For the March 25th game against the N.Y. Mets, the price for a box seat by the Yankees dugout is a cool $1,599.00. I am not making this up. I remember my Dad paying four dollars each for the seats we got at Yankee Stadium in 1958 to watch the Yanks play Boston with Jimmy Piersall (the psycho) playing left field for the Sox. Our seats were on the mezzanine along the third base line. What a trip that was. I was so excited about going to that game, I actually ran a fever the night before. I feel sorry for kids today their Dads have to be members of a drug cartel or illegal aliens to be able to afford seats at a major league game anymore. I wonder what they charge for hot dogs.
And these are ticket prices for exhibition games? Not regular season games?
$4 in 1958 is equivalent to about $42 today.
Someone has to pay all of these multi-million dollar contracts. If you don’t like the prices, stay home. That makes a statement.
Hard to believe people pay these sort of prices just to watch a ball game in person unless they have money to blow. I can think of many other better things to do with that money.
The cost for your tickets wouldn’t even be pocket change for top (supposedly) players today.
I stopped watching MLB during the strike. NFL in 2017. NBA 4 decades ago.
I’m still there with the NHL, tho.
Never been to any kind of pro game and have no interest in ever going to one.
Watch it at home or a local tavern, if you must.
If people buy them, they are priced correctly.
That’s in addition to your tax money that built the stadium.
I took my sweet wife to the Orioles new park in 1990 or so. We paid 18 bucks each for seats on the third base line. A great game and a wonderful new park. I wouldnt even consider it now.
If you think baseball is a child's game played by "entertainers", try hitting, or throwing, or catching, a major league pitch clocked at around 100 miles per hour.
Fool.
I haven’t been to a Kansas City Royals baseball game in years, tickets too expensive and too far to drive. The Royals want $2.5 billion in tax payer money to build a new stadium in downtown KC. The Royals finished last season with a record of 56-106, last in their division for the fourth or fifth time in a row. I don’t live in the KC area so it really doesn’t affect me, but how about the Royals running some guys out onto the field who are actually capable of playing major league baseball before they ask for tax payer money? If a professional sports organization can’t make enough money to build their own stadium they better fold up.
I’ve never been to an MLB game or a pro football game, and the last NBA game I went to was Portland vs. Milwaukee a while back. Milwaukee had a center named Lew Alcindor who was pretty good, as I recall.
Yeah, I remember, they also had a guard named Oscar Robertson who was pretty good as well. I think he averaged a triple double in ‘71 the year they won the championship. Man, am I getting old or what?
It’s not that we’re getting old, it’s just that things happened so long ago.
I’m not sure about “having to pay” those prices. I’m not anywhere near a major league field, but if I was, I’d have to stay home anyway at those prices. I would suggest others do the same.
I’m not sure about “having to pay” those prices. I’m not anywhere near a major league field, but if I was, I’d have to stay home anyway at those prices. I would suggest others do the same.
Sorry about the doule posted comment. This is a new computer & I seem to be having problems with it.
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