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cmk418So the Dodgers pulled it out last night. Baseball can be harrowing sometimes. With games like the one last night, I don't know how people can say it's boring. Compared to hockey, maybe, but then hockey has its moments where it's almost Zenlike, watching players skate from one side of the ice to the other.
I was looking at prices for Kings tickets the other night. $26 is the lowest price ticket. It just doesn't seem right. I know that the owners haven't raised ticket prices in 2 years (lockout & then trying to woo fans back) but that seems a bit excessive, especially when they actually broadcast the games on cable out here. It's ridiculous. Basically they are pricing families out of the game. Tix are still a minimum of $10 in Chicago (the $15 dollar seats on the cusp of the next highest bracket are some of the best value in sports). The Blues tix are minimum of $15 which, considering how the team has fared may still be viewed as too high. There's something that really ticks me off about having to pay $26 to sit in nosebleed seats. It takes away from the spontenaity of the moment. It's not like when I used to cut class in college and then head over to the St. Louis Arena and pick up a ticket in the top row for a game. Now there's a whole budgeting process that has to take place - priorities weighed, that sort of thing. Maybe I should just go and sit in the Staples Center bar for an hour or two and watch the game on TV there (I don't think they mind - of course, then I might have spent the whole kit & kaboodle on beer and chicken wings) so I don't know. That might be only worthwhile for Sparks games where the bar clientele is almost as nice to watch as the game itself.
I was looking at prices for Kings tickets the other night. $26 is the lowest price ticket. It just doesn't seem right. I know that the owners haven't raised ticket prices in 2 years (lockout & then trying to woo fans back) but that seems a bit excessive, especially when they actually broadcast the games on cable out here. It's ridiculous. Basically they are pricing families out of the game. Tix are still a minimum of $10 in Chicago (the $15 dollar seats on the cusp of the next highest bracket are some of the best value in sports). The Blues tix are minimum of $15 which, considering how the team has fared may still be viewed as too high. There's something that really ticks me off about having to pay $26 to sit in nosebleed seats. It takes away from the spontenaity of the moment. It's not like when I used to cut class in college and then head over to the St. Louis Arena and pick up a ticket in the top row for a game. Now there's a whole budgeting process that has to take place - priorities weighed, that sort of thing. Maybe I should just go and sit in the Staples Center bar for an hour or two and watch the game on TV there (I don't think they mind - of course, then I might have spent the whole kit & kaboodle on beer and chicken wings) so I don't know. That might be only worthwhile for Sparks games where the bar clientele is almost as nice to watch as the game itself.
