Did you know that a ticket to a baseball-game costs $1000?

[DetlefK]

Last edited Wed Oct 30, 2019, 11:17 AM - Edit history (1)

Link to tweet

EDIT:
I posted this because the next MAGA talking-point will be that the booing crowd wasn't made up of REAL Americans.

[sweetloukillbot]

1. Cost me $40 to see game 7 of the Dbacks-Yankees series

This is bullshit trying to paint baseball as elitist. And It looks like a right wing talking point also.

[former9thward]

3. Find tickets for anywhere near that price.

https://www.vividseats.com/mlb-baseball/houston-astros-tickets/astros-10-30-3204962.html

[sweetloukillbot]

5. The scalped ones I saw were in the $400 range

Season ticketholders would get them at face value. People who go in with friends to buy a season ticket have access to them. Regular fans are able to buy tickets to these games with little trouble. It's a myth that only wealthy elites are attending them. (The Super Bowl is another story, but even that has plenty of regular fans attending as well)

And I still question using "Washington Insiders" to dismiss the booing at the game.

[jcgoldie]

6. vividseats is a resale/scalper site

I bought tickets for the NLCS in STLouis for $40 2 days before the game from the mlb website. I am sure in DC they are higher and the WS is higher because its the WS. Attending championship sporting events is not cheap but you do not have to be elite. Obviously if you wait until the event is sold out and purchase from a scalper such as the site you reference then you are subject to exorbitant prices due to demand.

[former9thward]

17. The NLCS in St.Louis is not the World Series in DC.

A city which has never won. Baseball games are extremely expensive. There are regular posts about the cost on this site during the season and how you can't afford to bring a family to a game. I guessed you missed those -- you and others who think it is just fine could have corrected them...

[jcgoldie]

18. I said that in my post

Using a scalper site to reference the price of tickets is ridiculous in any city thats the point.

[RhodeIslandOne]

20. So, just to be clear....

....you agree the people who booed Trump are probably the elite? Is that what you are saying?

[former9thward]

21. I wasn't there.

I have no idea who booed Trump. Maybe the same people who booed Obama when he threw out the first pitch at the All Star game in 2009. What I do agree is that baseball tickets are extremely expensive and regular working people can't afford to bring a family to a game. Go ahead and defend the price of the tickets.

[RhodeIslandOne]

22. I'm not interested in defending those prices

But what I do see is an attempt by right wing shitbag Republicans to spin it to find a way to blame it on imaginary boogeymen that are behind everything that embarrasses Trump so they can feed it to the cornpones watching FOX News.

[former9thward]

23. It is risky to make assumptions about politics at sporting events.

It is a tradition to boo politicians at sporting events. I have personally see it more than a few times when I have been in attendance. People on the side of the "booers" can draw any conclusions they want. Are they right? Maybe, maybe not.

[TheFarseer]

24. Not baseball

Just the World Series. The Superbowl or NBA Finals would be the same thing. Prices are vastly different than 20 years ago.

[former9thward]

2. Yes, most people know that.

Here is a link to tickets for tonight's game. The very cheapest are in the $400 - $500 range. Most people go to a game with someone else. There is parking and snacks. So that is easily $1000.

https://www.vividseats.com/mlb-baseball/houston-astros-tickets/astros-10-30-3204962.html

[LexVegas]

4. Why are you promoting this rightwing fuckstick's tweets here?

[DetlefK]

7. Because that's the next talking-point how Trump being booed doesn't mean a thing.

[melm00se]

8. This is a World Series ticket.

Unless you bought one as a season ticket holder or got lucky, you have to go to the secondary market and you pay thru the nose for it.

[Blue_Tires]

9. Yes, your point?

[yellowcanine]

10. Weren't those scalper prices? The way I understand it, there were not many tickets

available and some season ticket holders cashed in on extra tickets by unloading them to scalpers or reselling them themselves. And of course there are professional speculators in all big time sports who buy up tickets on any team which might have a chance at a post-season and then cash in on the ones which turn out.

[PBC_Democrat]

11. Not sure what you're trying to say ...

There a limited number seats ...

if demand exceeds supply - prices go up
If supply exceeds demand- prices go down

Works for everything in our economy from houses to cars to wages to Christmas toys.

If I paid face value for two tix and I can resell them for ten times the amount, I have a decision to make - fatten the wallet or go to the game.

[RandiFan1290]

27. Loved hearing the American people boo that scumbag

and now I love seeing how mad it makes his demented followers and the excuses they are making up to cover for him.

[Initech]

12. When the Angels were in the World Series in 2002 the tickets to game 1 were $125.

Now they could retail for almost $1,000 even more after market. After market ticket sales are ruining everything.

[onenote]

13. The "gate price" for tickets to the WS for non-season ticket holders topped out at around $600

I had seats in the "Club" Level, and those tickets listed for $454 (but for a season ticket holder, they were $314)

By the way, the "gate price" for Super Bowl tickets runs from around $1000 for nose bleed seats to $5000 for the most expensive ticket.

[Initech]

16. Yeah mine were season tickets.

I can only imagine what aftermarket prices were. Especially when there was a game 7 involved.

[tritsofme]

14. In 2016 a friend with a single season ticket at Wrigley was paid over $8k for his WS seats

before the Cubs even won the pennant. It is madness

[sweetloukillbot]

29. I covered a Super Bowl in Phoenix

One thing we did was wait by the 1st Row seat at the 50-yard-line and ask how much they paid for the ticket.
Dude had dropped 10K on the seat the day before. He wasn't elite. Just some dumbass spending his kid's college fund without telling his wife.
(The seat behind him was Martha Stewart)
But there were a lot of season ticket holders who flew out from New England for the game - not just elites (Although there were a lot more of those that I saw).

[Yavin4]

15. Funny how the right screams about elitism based on prices but when we propose

higher taxes to pay for real needs, they scream back, "it's their money, they can do what they want to do with it".

[imanamerican63]

19. That is a lot!

But Trump charges that to listen to one of illegal phone calls!

[treestar]

25. Magats make up your minds

These are the elite people who deserved a tax cut because they create jobs. The people you are going to be hanging out with when you finally become millionaires yourselves after your temporary embarrassment.

[underpants]

26. Does Boris know that people outside DC can buy tickets too?

I heard something like this on talk radio too. Laura Ingraham seems to think it would make a great TV ad for Trump.....like Mission Accomplished did for W. 🤪

[Raftergirl]

28. We were in DC last weekend

as my husband was running in the Marine Corp Marathon. For kicks he decided to see if we could get tickets for one of the games. Standing room only we’re going for $600. Obviously we passed.