Yankees, Mets raise prices. Everyone else doesn't
The annual Team Marketing Report fan cost index is out and it seems everyone but the two New York teams has made concessions to the economic recession.
According to the TMR, ``The Yankees' average ticket is an eye-popping $72.97, according to TMR calculations, and the Mets' 36.99. Both increases helped the average ticket go up 5.4 percent in 2009, to $26.74.
The league's Fan Cost Index is up 3.4 percent to 197.17. The Fan Cost Index (FCI) measures the cost to take a family of four to a sporting event.''
The Dodgers average ticket price of $29.66 is still over the league average of $26.64 but remained unchanged from last season.
The Angeles lowered their average ticket price $20.05 by 3.5 percent and were called ``baseball's best bargain.''
According to the report: ``Ten teams show overall average price decreases, and another six have either stayed flat or are up less than 1 percent.
Several teams are offering cheaper concession items, and nearly every team has some kind of value meal proposition. The Cincinnati Reds ($144.76 FCI) has $1 soft drinks and $1 hot dogs.
If you take the Mets and Yankees out of the equation, this year and last year, and the average ticket for the other 28 teams ($23.07) would be up just .09 percent. So the New York teams, who certainly help their peers' bottom lines with impressive road attendance, are worth about $3.67 to the total average of the league.''
It's kind of ironic that The Angels are located in one of the most expensive county's to live in (Orange County), yet they have one of the lowest avg. ticket price and are considered "baseballs bargain." Go figure.
Yankees tix prices are insane. From $565 to $2,600 per seat per game to sit in the lower deck around home plate. Upper deck around home plate is $135 to $165 per seat per game. Yet you can go to see the Astros at Minute Maid Field for $1.00 to sit in the upper-upper deck in centerfield. There are some real bargains out there now considering the economy but stay away from those new New York ballparks.
Not only has the ticket prices gone up so has public transit fares.
Can anyone tell me of the game is on MLB Network tonight. According to the dodger.com schedule it is, but not on the MLB Network site.
Any help is appreciated thanks.
The MLB Network schedule online at their website has it there at 1:30 pm EDT! (As if the game had started at 10:30 AM PDT.) That's obviously wrong and out of date. My Channel Guide on my TV has it correctly at 7:00 pm PDT (10 PM EDT). It will be blacked out in LA region (probably all of southern California) where it's on KCAL to anyone who gets KCAL. There will be some people in SoCal who don't get KCAL and where MLBN will be blacked out, I bet.
Damn
I live in seattle and they are showing A's Giants....