Take me out to the ballgame!

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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If you can afford it! The cost for a family of four could easily be over four hundred dollars. With player salaries breaking all kinds of records, multi- million dollar salaries even for mediocre players, that a bag of peanuts will cost more than just peanuts, I'll be staying home. How about you?
 

Aussie football, has become to expencive for many families and they can longer afford the old tradition of going to the footy, heard on the radio to buy a bottle of water at the footy it will cost you $5 same price for a bucket of chips, the same items would cost you $2- 3 in a shop. The players are paid a huge amount now Compaired to when we were young ..one almost needs to take out a bank loan just to have a day out .
 
Hmm, seems like a universal problem...
 

Over here it's exactly the same. because the players are paid astronomical sums of money, families have stopped going to soccer matches. if you watch a match on tv you can see it's mainly young men who are buying the tickets.The price of tickets is beyond most people and is a treat now and again to go.
 
The high cost of going to a pro baseball, football or basketball games started several years ago when the cable companies hooked up with the sports teams for exclusive rights to carry their games. Players noticed how much money the owners were taking in and they wanted their fair share and then some. Pro teams today are probably one of the most valuable owned assets in the U.S. It is estimated that the Yankees and the Cowboys alone are valued at over $2.5 billion each. With players making in excess of $25 million per year, team owners needed to up ticket and parking prices, concession contracts, TV contracts, endorsements and other income producing items.

I remember when Lebron James signed with Cleveland in the NBA. Before he even stepped onto a pro court, NIKE signed him to an $90 million contract for I believe seven years and then added to it after that contract expired. Today, he has an estimated $270 million net worth.

And that is why it costs so much to go to a ballgame. No owner is going to go into the red to put a team on the field, but a few have only because of their careless and reckless spending.
 
I've always said, there is something wrong with a society that begrudges the money doctors make while literally holding our lives in their hands, yet praises and cheers some jock making multi-millions for running a ball up and down a field, or batting one to some other jock making equally as much.
 
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