It needs to stop
You pay a lot to attend a professional sports event. A family of four can easily drop more than $200 at a game, with tickets, parking, food and fan gear.
That might be on the low end of the estimate, so what in these tough economic times do our professional sports teams do -- they raise ticket prices and go out and spend money like a "drunken sailor."
The World Champion Phillies have raised some of their ticket prices for the coming season. Why? the Bank (the ball park) is always full.
The Phils just spent $30 plus million to sign 36-year-old outfielder to replace Pat Burrell and a couple of million to sign a 35-year-old pitcher.
Then you have the Yankees and the Mets. They both got new ball parks. Last week, the Yankees signed two pitchers totalling $240 million. They have another $100 plus million invested in Alex Rodriquez. That’s more than $300 million for just three players.
The Mets poured out near $40 million for one of the game’s top relief pitchers.
So who pays?
The fans. Many of whom may not have jobs or the money to afford the tickets.
It’s not just baseball that I am talking about, its other pro sports as well. Read something last week that the NFL is laying off 15 percent or 15 people from the league office. They are the most profitable venture in pro sports.
It has to stop. The czars of the game have the ability to say enough is enough. The fans have only one way to stop the insanity -- stop going to the games and stop paying the outlandish ticket prices.
I can remember when you could go to the Phillies for $5 for a ticket in the 200 level at the vet. Now that same ticket goes for around $45. You can’t get that today.
The only way to beat the pros, is not go to the games, stay home and watch them on the tube or go back to the old days and listen to them on radio. But, then the pros will find a way to beat that too.
It’s a "no win" situation for the "Regular Joe Fan" (no relation to "Joe the Plumber").
Maybe the teams that are loading the Brinks’ truck up to their stadiums or fields every day (and yes, the Phillies) are one of them should think of the fan first and not walk out of their "yard" or "barn," into their limo and have someone take them home.
If conditions don’t improve, no one will have the bucks to attend any pro event.
That might be on the low end of the estimate, so what in these tough economic times do our professional sports teams do -- they raise ticket prices and go out and spend money like a "drunken sailor."
The World Champion Phillies have raised some of their ticket prices for the coming season. Why? the Bank (the ball park) is always full.
The Phils just spent $30 plus million to sign 36-year-old outfielder to replace Pat Burrell and a couple of million to sign a 35-year-old pitcher.
Then you have the Yankees and the Mets. They both got new ball parks. Last week, the Yankees signed two pitchers totalling $240 million. They have another $100 plus million invested in Alex Rodriquez. That’s more than $300 million for just three players.
The Mets poured out near $40 million for one of the game’s top relief pitchers.
So who pays?
The fans. Many of whom may not have jobs or the money to afford the tickets.
It’s not just baseball that I am talking about, its other pro sports as well. Read something last week that the NFL is laying off 15 percent or 15 people from the league office. They are the most profitable venture in pro sports.
It has to stop. The czars of the game have the ability to say enough is enough. The fans have only one way to stop the insanity -- stop going to the games and stop paying the outlandish ticket prices.
I can remember when you could go to the Phillies for $5 for a ticket in the 200 level at the vet. Now that same ticket goes for around $45. You can’t get that today.
The only way to beat the pros, is not go to the games, stay home and watch them on the tube or go back to the old days and listen to them on radio. But, then the pros will find a way to beat that too.
It’s a "no win" situation for the "Regular Joe Fan" (no relation to "Joe the Plumber").
Maybe the teams that are loading the Brinks’ truck up to their stadiums or fields every day (and yes, the Phillies) are one of them should think of the fan first and not walk out of their "yard" or "barn," into their limo and have someone take them home.
If conditions don’t improve, no one will have the bucks to attend any pro event.
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