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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #882 on: March 10, 2025, 11:54:46 AM »
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #883 on: March 10, 2025, 12:03:04 PM »
Made it out to a couple of spring training games.  Dodgers, Cubs, and Giants are up to like $55 for the cheapest ticket, so not visiting those ballparks.

Got a $12 Royals ticket and a $20 Reds game so far.  DBacks, A's are like $20.  And the Brewers always the best buy in ghetto Maryvale.

I'll go to a few more this week.  
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #884 on: March 10, 2025, 03:24:11 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on March 10, 2025, 12:03:04 PM
Made it out to a couple of spring training games.  Dodgers, Cubs, and Giants are up to like $55 for the cheapest ticket, so not visiting those ballparks.

Got a $12 Royals ticket and a $20 Reds game so far.  DBacks, A's are like $20.  And the Brewers always the best buy in ghetto Maryvale.

I'll go to a few more this week. 
What do the Sox charge? Does anyone even go?
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #885 on: March 10, 2025, 03:31:45 PM »
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #886 on: March 10, 2025, 04:20:26 PM »
I was last at the sprawling, and beautiful Glendale complex two seasons ago (which merely needs a bit more shaded seats and it would be my favorite complex in AZ).   White Sox ticket was 1/2 the cost of the same ticket in the same ball park for a Dodgers game.
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #887 on: March 11, 2025, 11:46:21 AM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on March 10, 2025, 12:03:04 PM
Made it out to a couple of spring training games.  Dodgers, Cubs, and Giants are up to like $55 for the cheapest ticket, so not visiting those ballparks.

Got a $12 Royals ticket and a $20 Reds game so far.  DBacks, A's are like $20.  And the Brewers always the best buy in ghetto Maryvale.

I'll go to a few more this week. 

Didn't realize the prices for Spring Training games were pretty much what regular season tickets are until last month I bought tickets for the Padres Vs Giants in Scottsdale. $35/ticket for seats on the LAWN for a TUESDAY night game. And that's not including for "processing fees." $140 dollars for four of us to go to a Spring Training game when I remember watching the Rockies back in 2008 in Tucson for like $7.

To the old timers in Tucson who once in a while mention missing Spring Training, to them I tell them: "Tucson got out of Spring Training before it was going to price itself out of Tucson anyway."

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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #888 on: March 11, 2025, 11:54:19 AM »
For games that don't count.  Starters play to their 3rd at-bat.  

I'd go to 10 games in 7 days just a decade ago.  Literally can't afford to now.  My friend and I had a Fb page dedicated to reviewing each ballpark experience, because we'd go to all of them.  

No longer.

The ?beauty? of supply and demand.  The absurdly expensive sit on your ass in the grass in the outfield tickets started with the Giants.  I'm a Dodgers fan, so not attending their home games felt right.  This was due to 2 factors:  their winning 3 WS in 5 years (or whatever it was) + old town Scottsdale having retiree fans with all the dollars.  

The Cubs were next, after their burgeoning dynasty (haha) win in 2016, I think it was.  There's tiered game ticket pricing.....in spring training.  Regular, premium, and whatever the hell else.  

Everyone should boycott most of the ballparks and just get some cheese curds in Maryvale, avoiding night games, lol.
Maybe not everyone, but that's what I'm going to do.
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #889 on: March 11, 2025, 12:17:15 PM »
well, shoot, I was thinkin of attending spring training games after I retire
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« Reply #890 on: March 11, 2025, 12:21:19 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 11, 2025, 12:17:15 PM
well, shoot, I was thinkin of attending spring training games after I retire
You should.

But budget for it and the shaded seats get gobbled up first.  
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #891 on: March 11, 2025, 01:46:16 PM »
$20 a seat I can handle
I'll spill more beer than that on the golf course that trip
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« Reply #892 on: March 11, 2025, 03:36:58 PM »
Think $50/ticket.  $20 is to sit on the ground, 350' away.
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« Reply #893 on: March 11, 2025, 05:14:02 PM »
Rays cost us $100 with parking. $200 with other shit.
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #894 on: March 11, 2025, 05:55:48 PM »
lotta $$$ to watch practice
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Re: ~2024 MLB Thread~
« Reply #895 on: March 11, 2025, 06:03:32 PM »
I enjoyed the hot dog.
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