04-07-2010, 07:03 PM
<!--quoteo(post=86668:date=Apr 7 2010, 11:29 AM:name=Destined)-->QUOTE (Destined @ Apr 7 2010, 11:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=86665:date=Apr 7 2010, 11:22 AM:name=Clapp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Clapp @ Apr 7 2010, 11:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Well, you get baseball and lots of comedy. I'd say it's a fair price.
You can get a ticket at Coors for $4 in the Rockpile, and it's easy to move around to awesome seats, or we usually just stand right above the end of the first level in the infield. Cheaper to get into the stadium than buy a beer.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Nice. I love when Artie Moreno took over the Angels, the first thing he did was lower beer prices.
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I knew they were raising ticket prices and bitched about the payroll not increasing enough to justify the extra revenue. Now that stories are coming out that the Cubs avg. ticket prices are the highest in baseball I think there will be a slight backlash, fair or not.
I say fair or not because the Cubs start the year as tops in the NL in terms of payroll. So fans should know that. I don't think they'll end up there at the end of the year, but I do think fans should demand a big move at the deadline if the team is in it that adds payroll.
More importantly, people need to remember that the average ticket price at Wrigley v. LA's stadiums or Coors Filed isn't always a fair comparison. Yeah, you can get a Dodger's ticket for 10 bucks, but the seat will be somewhat awful compared to most seats at Wrigley. Without looking too closely at the numbers, I would guess that a comparable seat at Dodger Stadium is priced about the same as a seat at Wrigley, the average price just gets skewed by 55K seats v. 40K. The demand for 1 of 55K seats isn't the same as the demand for 1 of 40K, particularly when the extra 15 thousand aren't seats that are close enough to garner as much interest.
You can get a ticket at Coors for $4 in the Rockpile, and it's easy to move around to awesome seats, or we usually just stand right above the end of the first level in the infield. Cheaper to get into the stadium than buy a beer.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Nice. I love when Artie Moreno took over the Angels, the first thing he did was lower beer prices.
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I knew they were raising ticket prices and bitched about the payroll not increasing enough to justify the extra revenue. Now that stories are coming out that the Cubs avg. ticket prices are the highest in baseball I think there will be a slight backlash, fair or not.
I say fair or not because the Cubs start the year as tops in the NL in terms of payroll. So fans should know that. I don't think they'll end up there at the end of the year, but I do think fans should demand a big move at the deadline if the team is in it that adds payroll.
More importantly, people need to remember that the average ticket price at Wrigley v. LA's stadiums or Coors Filed isn't always a fair comparison. Yeah, you can get a Dodger's ticket for 10 bucks, but the seat will be somewhat awful compared to most seats at Wrigley. Without looking too closely at the numbers, I would guess that a comparable seat at Dodger Stadium is priced about the same as a seat at Wrigley, the average price just gets skewed by 55K seats v. 40K. The demand for 1 of 55K seats isn't the same as the demand for 1 of 40K, particularly when the extra 15 thousand aren't seats that are close enough to garner as much interest.