Wow. Turns out this winning the World Series thing can get a little expensive.
And the Red Sox are taking it out on their fans.
Thank goodness we here in the home of the AL wild card still are paying relative peanuts to see scrappy underdogs like A-Rod in action.
Until the new stadium opens . . .
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This is one of the things wrong with pro sports. Players don't need to make this kind of money and in the process they push away certain fans who can't afford to pay these prices. You have guys making more money for 1 game then the fans there make in a year.
Player salaries aren't influencing ticket prices. Ticket prices are set by the team based on what they think the market will bear. If the Yankee payroll is $30 million less this year and they expect to sell 4 million tickets do you think the team will lower individual ticket prices $7.50 each? No way.
It's all supply and demand.
They have to pay for that big contract they are going to have to give Mike Lowell when they outbid the Yankees.
Time for a Casey Stengel anecdote. when the Brooklyn Dodgers made the world series for the first time in 1916 they charged what people thought was an exorbitant amount (I don't know the price). The next spring outfielder Casey Stengel held out and told the Dodgers since fans were paying high prices it was only right for them to watch high priced players.
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