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07-20-2011, 08:19 PM
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Minn seems to have found a way to do it as have other "small market" teams even playing in the joke of a ballpark until this year.
Rawn
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07-20-2011, 08:43 PM
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07-21-2011, 08:03 AM
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The only way ticket prices would get lower is if the fans boycotted major league games, sort of, We're tired of paying these high prices and we won't be coming back. Yet fans put up with these exorbitant prices and attendence is near or at an all-time high. Why is that? I can't beieve all of the tens of millions of fans who attend Major League baseball games can really afford to do so. But as long as they keep coming, ticket prices will continue to rise.
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07-21-2011, 08:07 AM
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From watching many games on TV, I have noticed the vast majoity of people in the stands. I believe most of these seats are corporate owned and not the average fans. The "cheap" seats are, in a lot of parks, empty.
Rawn
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07-21-2011, 08:41 AM
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I know Rawn, and you are correct. The only people buying these expensive seats are the corporate crowd. When you watch a game on TV and scan through the stands, half the people are on cellphones, and keeping one eye on the action. Maybe the middle class fan has stopped going to the ballpark. I just don't know. I know I have. I go to a Brooklyn Cyclones game at least once a year, but can't even remember the last time I saw the Mets or Yankees.
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07-21-2011, 10:31 AM
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There was a Sporting News articles some years back that estimated that 2/3 of all MLB ticket revenues were from corporations.
I worked for a large Minneapolis area corporation (Cargill) in the 1980s and 1990s, and they owned literally hundreds of season tickets for all of the local sports in addition to luxury boxes. I also had suppliers as far away as Texas who also owned multiple season tickets for the Minnesota teams. I had access to tickets and suites owned by Cargill, Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, General American, Prudential, General Electric, General Mills, Purina Mills, Pillsbury - too many to name. Corporate tickets enabled me to attend the 7th games for both of the Twins' WS championships. For the 1991 final game, I was the guest of two guys from the Canadian National railroad, and they both left in the 3rd or 4th inning - they said they weren't interested in baseball, they just wanted to make sure I was situated and enjoying myself before they left. I enjoyed the freebies at the time, but in retrospect I really dislike the whole practice, and think it's been the single biggest contributor to the high prices of tickets today. I'd like to see corporate ticket ownership disincentivized, but I'm not sure if even eliminating it as a tax deduction would solve the problem.
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