World Series tickets and parking

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GeorgiaXplant

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Wow! Early in the week, tickets in the nosebleed section of Truist Park for tonight's game were as "inexpensive" as $900. Now they're up to as much as $1600. SRO tickets are more than $1000.

Need to park your car? $500.

If you'd like better seats, prepare to part with $10K or more.

People really have that kind of money💰to throw away?💸

And it's raining to boot!

If you buy tickets in advance for game 5 but the series is won in tomorrow's game, the cost of the tickets is non-refundable. Ditto game 6 or game 7. No kidding.
 

Instead of a Worlds Series, it's a Worlds Fleecing. Yeah, you could save a lot of money by watching it on TV., at home, or even better in a sports bar. But there's nothing like being in the stadium, and watching the game on Jumbotron.:)
 

I've been to a few ball games....baseball and football...over the years, and it's a bit of fun to "interact" with the crowd. However, if one really wants to watch the "action" of the game, viewing it on TV is Much Better. Sitting in the stadium, 100's of feet from the field, makes it hard to see what actually happened, unless the play is in clear view on the stadium jumbotron.

The costs of attending a game, in recent years, has gone Sky High...making it almost exclusively a Rich Man's pleasure.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Wow! Early in the week, tickets in the nosebleed section of Truist Park for tonight's game were as "inexpensive" as $900. Now they're up to as much as $1600. SRO tickets are more than $1000.

Need to park your car? $500.

If you'd like better seats, prepare to part with $10K or more.

People really have that kind of money💰to throw away?💸

And it's raining to boot!

If you buy tickets in advance for game 5 but the series is won in tomorrow's game, the cost of the tickets is non-refundable. Ditto game 6 or game 7. No kidding.
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GeorgiaXplant said:
Wow! Early in the week, tickets in the nosebleed section of Truist Park for tonight's game were as "inexpensive" as $900. Now they're up to as much as $1600. SRO tickets are more than $1000.

Need to park your car? $500.

If you'd like better seats, prepare to part with $10K or more.

People really have that kind of money💰to throw away?💸

And it's raining to boot!

If you buy tickets in advance for game 5 but the series is won in tomorrow's game, the cost of the tickets is non-refundable. Ditto game 6 or game 7. No kidding.
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I'm in metro Atlanta. My late son's girlfriend is staying here with me for a while. She is working tonight's game (through an agency) as a greeter (whatever that is) and was told to park at Lockheed Martin at Dobbins Air Base and take a shuttle. I haven't been to a Braves game in years. It's a madhouse up there. Good luck to her and the Braves!
 
Alizerine said:
I'm in metro Atlanta. My late son's girlfriend is staying here with me for a while. She is working tonight's game (through an agency) as a greeter (whatever that is) and was told to park at Lockheed Martin at Dobbins Air Base and take a shuttle. I haven't been to a Braves game in years. It's a madhouse up there. Good luck to her and the Braves!
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Talk about senior moments. It looks like I posted the same message twice. This is a good forum and I hope to learn how to navigate it better.
 
I watched the game last night on TV and every time the camera was at a certain angle you could see the rain steadily coming down. I was sure glad I was sitting in a house watching on TV and not sitting in a puddle in that stadium. I love the interaction when you're in a packed stadium and the stakes are as high as they are right now but my days of being exposed to dreadful outdoor elements are over and to be paying a premium price for the experience to boot ..... Nope!
 
Don M. said:
I've been to a few ball games....baseball and football...over the years, and it's a bit of fun to "interact" with the crowd. However, if one really wants to watch the "action" of the game, viewing it on TV is Much Better. Sitting in the stadium, 100's of feet from the field, makes it hard to see what actually happened, unless the play is in clear view on the stadium jumbotron.

The costs of attending a game, in recent years, has gone Sky High...making it almost exclusively a Rich Man's pleasure.
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I'm a Tampa Bay Bucs fan. Their team color is fire engine RED. I've seen them play in NYC, (Jets- blue uniforms) and Philly (Eagles, green). You have no idea how alone you feel when you jump up and down, when the Bucs score, and you're the only person in red, in a sea of blue, or green.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
People really have that kind of money💰to throw away?💸
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Yes, there is a segment of the population that is flushed with cash. Also, remember that value is in the eye of the beholder. As a comparison, I would never spend $40K plus for a car but many people do without batting an eye.
 
And I thought the 20-40 dollar regular season price was bad in many parks. This is one of the reasons I haven't a bought a sport ticket in decades. When I was young I had to go old school and wait in line in an era before online ticket brokers. And that's if I had off.
 
I root for whoever is playing the Astros, so the Braves are my preference in this match-up. That said, I find the tomahawk chop so rude, disrespectful, irritating and distracting that I wouldn't even consider watching the games.

I like Atlanta's players. Their fans, not so much.
 
The World Series is killing me with their stats, I don't want to know about Joe's Mommy, just tell me his batting average for the season,
not his batting average for the world series.
I was leaning towards Houston-don't understand why their stealing signs was such a sin. Stealing signs is and has been a part of the game.

World Series and Dallas Cowboys are both on TV-Houston, sorry you'll will have to beat the Braves without my support.
 
jerry old said:
World Series and Dallas Cowboys are both on TV-Houston, sorry you'll will have to beat the Braves without my support.
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How could they possibly win without your support! :LOL::ROFLMAO::D

I agree, I don't want to hear those endless irrelevant comments....I have to turn the sound off, frequently! :sneaky:
 
About the OP topic: enormous ticket prices;
Remember back when.....
(only 30 years ago, when I was a younger adult than I am now, ;)
I'm not talking about when I was a kid!)

Baseball tickets (MLB) were cheap and affordable,
much more so than the other major Sports, such as Basketball (NBA) or Football (NFL) or Tennis.
But not so much any longer, I guess.?

Plus, some Baseball Stadiums, have mass transit, cheap, to the stadium,
and car drivers also had the option to park someplace far from the Park, (free or cheap) and take those. It didn't used to cost a fortune to take some children or friends, to a baseball game.
 
Don't have to be Rich to attend Sporting Events. Here's how we do it.

We have a 'Sports/Concert/Vacation' account, like a savings account, that we put money in every month.
This started after the last son moved out and I was still working full-time.
My salary covered most of our bills, so we put a large amount of my Military retirement check into this account.

Over the years we have used it to go to some big sports games, usually combining that with a vacation in whatever
city we were visiting.

This year we have toned it down some, only using it for Tennessee Titan games, Nashville Sound games and have tickets
to the Music City Bowl hosted here ( SEC vs Big10 football ) even though our team won't be going to a Bowl game.
Not as many concerts due to less artist traveling.

Sounds a bit selfish to some. Maybe so.
Like that bumper sticker seen on those expensive RV's back in the day: " We're Spending Our Kids Inheritance".
 
Ridiculous...and it could be a boring losing game. Who on the teams are worth watching, so much?
Is there even one great star?
Some tickets are sold to big businesses who give them to executives and their families, I assume. Some have ties with the ball club, members of media, others with connections.
 

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