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In reply to the discussion: Sports events tickets...where the billionaires really soak the middle class suckers... [View all]Human101948
(3,457 posts)3. Yes, you have a point...
but at the NY Yankees the box seats that I used to pay $20 for are now $850.That's 150% more than the CPI inflation over the same period.
Before the Yankees new stadium opener, in what may have been the first and last stab at suggesting, during a Yankees telecast, that the team was barking up the wrong money tree that they established their own PSLs that could price their best customers either up, further from the field, or out Michael Kay, on YES, asked MLB Commissioner Bud Selig about ticket prices.
Selig said: You know, people talk about ticket prices and I think the Yankees have been treated somewhat unfairly because I broke down all the ticket prices of all the seats, today, and they are affordable.
Seligs nonsense was spoken just a few feet from box seats that cost $850 per seat, per game. The season before, similar seats had ballooned to $250 from $90.
http://nypost.com/2014/04/27/pricing-fans-out-of-stadium-no-good-for-yankees-or-mlb/
Before the Yankees new stadium opener, in what may have been the first and last stab at suggesting, during a Yankees telecast, that the team was barking up the wrong money tree that they established their own PSLs that could price their best customers either up, further from the field, or out Michael Kay, on YES, asked MLB Commissioner Bud Selig about ticket prices.
Selig said: You know, people talk about ticket prices and I think the Yankees have been treated somewhat unfairly because I broke down all the ticket prices of all the seats, today, and they are affordable.
Seligs nonsense was spoken just a few feet from box seats that cost $850 per seat, per game. The season before, similar seats had ballooned to $250 from $90.
http://nypost.com/2014/04/27/pricing-fans-out-of-stadium-no-good-for-yankees-or-mlb/
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Sports events tickets...where the billionaires really soak the middle class suckers... [View all]
Human101948
Oct 2015
OP
First world problems. It's sad that pro sports are the only form of entertainment.
lumberjack_jeff
Oct 2015
#11
I'm confused. OP thinks that billionaires bought a bunch of tickets and are selling them online?
DesMoinesDem
Oct 2015
#18