The last time I went to a Major League Baseball game (in Atlanta) I paid $65/seat for nosebleed well pass third base. (Best that was available; apparently corporations bought up the lower seating, though most of sections weren’t even 1/3 occupied during the game.) Paid for a “tailgate authorized” parking space where they didn’t allow any portable gazebos, charcoal grills, flags or any other decorations (despite saying on the team’s website all of that was OK) and lot attendants that took great delight in enforcing all of that – with armed private security to back them up. Get a pat-down from security that rivals anything TSA does at airports (they would sooner you snuck in a cannon than a bag of chips.) Paid $5.00 for a 20-ounce watered down cup of Coke. Broiled in our seats the first half of the game until the sun mercifully went behind the upper stands. Having a guy with a weak bladder (but always returning with a full beer) crawling pass every inning. I haven’t listed many other indignities suffered by my family and myself attending this game in person.
In other words, to attend major league games in stadiums in our present age you are expected to spend no small amount of time, money and effort to be treated like trash. And the owners and other management types who drive up to their reserve parking next to the stadium and sit in their skyboxes wonder why attendance is down.
lee85736 over 5 years ago
This could work. You wouldn’t have views of all those empty seats. Put the locker rooms in the cellar, share parking with a convenience store…..
MichaelHelwig over 5 years ago
Don’t use taxpayer money.
Alabama Al over 5 years ago
The last time I went to a Major League Baseball game (in Atlanta) I paid $65/seat for nosebleed well pass third base. (Best that was available; apparently corporations bought up the lower seating, though most of sections weren’t even 1/3 occupied during the game.) Paid for a “tailgate authorized” parking space where they didn’t allow any portable gazebos, charcoal grills, flags or any other decorations (despite saying on the team’s website all of that was OK) and lot attendants that took great delight in enforcing all of that – with armed private security to back them up. Get a pat-down from security that rivals anything TSA does at airports (they would sooner you snuck in a cannon than a bag of chips.) Paid $5.00 for a 20-ounce watered down cup of Coke. Broiled in our seats the first half of the game until the sun mercifully went behind the upper stands. Having a guy with a weak bladder (but always returning with a full beer) crawling pass every inning. I haven’t listed many other indignities suffered by my family and myself attending this game in person.
In other words, to attend major league games in stadiums in our present age you are expected to spend no small amount of time, money and effort to be treated like trash. And the owners and other management types who drive up to their reserve parking next to the stadium and sit in their skyboxes wonder why attendance is down.
Bob Blumenfeld over 5 years ago
Or maybe just inflated the night before a game?