Count Tiger Woods Part of Crowd That Scoffs at Yankee Stadium Prices

So im guessing the part where they conveniently tell you that the Yankees have marked up their ticket prices by oh...49.4% (NOT including ball cap on every trip, guys, yay!) is merely skewed tactics?

"The Yankees’ average ticket is an eye-popping $72.97, according
to TMR calculations, and the Mets’ 36.99. Both increases helped the
average ticket go up 5 percent in 2009, to $26.64.

TMR INSIDE LOOK: Opening up a new stadium doesn’t always
mean ticket prices will keep increasing. Between 2001 and 2008,
seven teams have opened new stadiums, and four have lower prices
in 2009 than when the new parks opened.
In 2006, the average ticket at new Busch Stadium was $29.78. This
season it’s $29.43. In 2004, the average ticket at San Diego’s Petco
Park was $21.41; this year it’s down $1.40. And when PNC Park
opened in Pittsburgh, the average ticket was $19.45, $3.49 more expensive
than it is today. The Nationals dropped prices 7.1 percent
this year after opening their park in 2008. The Phillies ($26.08 in
2004), the Reds ($17.53 in 2003) and the Brewers ($16.22 in 2001)
have all kept prices rising since their respective parks opened."

Yeah, because nothing says "preserving America's pasttime like a 2,500 dollar seat.

baseball in general has dropped the ball. a game that is billed as America's past time. a sport that got us through world wars and a great depression. We need baseball now to give us family entertainment and the players are making millions and the city's are taxing the stadiums and we are being billed for it. MLB could really be creating loyality and being the sport that will get us through this time of American history like so many others but they struck out!
In years past I have taken my 2 boys to several games by now, this year we have not been to any games. do not have any plans to go

The new cowboy's stadium charges $40 for parking!!! There's not an option of any other means of transportaion to get there...haven't heard what the prices of ticket to the games will be...

So, Michael, what's your point? You seem to agree that prices are too high for ordinary folks but also seem to say that it's not as bad as reported. What's the difference if Joe Blow, Mrs. Blow and their two kids can't afford to go to the game with or without buying caps?

Good that you should ask, Dog! (BTW, nice work on capturing that bail jumper last week.)

The point is that the "baseball is too expensive for the average fan" argument has been around for as long as I have. In fact, prices are only now just reaching the point of being "too expensive." And how you actually tell this is that demand is finally shrinking compared to supply.

Each MLB team has between 3-4 million seats per season to fill, so pricing "average" fans out of the equation would be suicide. Where the NBA or NHL can do that with only 800k seats to sell and only a 40-game season, and each game of football's 10-game home season is more like an event, MLB simply can't do it.

What they CAN do is set aside some premium seats in areas where, contrary to popular belief, the "average" fan has never had the option of wandering up to the ticket window and buying seats.

What the Yankees have done is raised the price of too many seats by too much too soon - and they're getting burned.

But other teams are seeing "creep" - small but still significant declines - where due to the economy people aren't buying primo seats like they did a couple of years ago. Historically this causes teams to readjust their prices going forward.

TL;DR version: Supply and demand are king. If prices get too high for you, don't blame the team: blame the "average" fans who keep buying millions of tickets. When they stop, prices will fall.

And a stupid team like the Yankees who price their tickets too high for demand will lose money because of it.

I agree completely about pro sports. The only problem is that attendance is not the prime source of income. The TV contracts control sports and you can hardly ignore all of the products that are advertised. If I could, believe me I would never buy a product that is advertised on pro sports programs.

Great idea except that its probably not true fans that are mostly buying those tickets. Its a lot of others who just want something to do and can afford anything they want.

I guess everybody should modify their behavior just in case a person of Faith is around. As a matter of fact do you cover your wifes face in case a person of the Muslim faith is around. Stop swatting flies if a person of Buddhist faith is around??? I bet your only concern is people of the Christian Faith is around. If I remember my childhood indoctrination Jesus said you are in the world but not of the world.

I suppose you'd call Pat Robertson a role model...afterall, he never takes the lords name in vain when he's calling for the assassinaion of world leaders he disagrees with.

Get me to a hockey game!