There was an announcement last week about the Giants raising their ticket prices about 7%...no surprise after winning the Super Bowl. But, the experience I had buying tickets for another NY team makes this worth mentioning.
First some background - I've been a lifelong Yankees fan and attended my first game on June 8, 1968. My father purchased box seats about 12 rows from the field. I still have the ticket stub...the tickets were $8 each. A few years later, a neighbor gave me a seat from the original Yankee Stadium they had bought and I still have it. It's a curiosity piece to my 11 year old daughter.
With this being the last season at the original stadium, I thought I'd take my daughter to a game to let her see where the seat came from. Now, I know ticket prices for box seats are expensive, but I'd pay for the experience for my daughter - after all, part of being a father is sharing some of the things you had as a child. Well, I'm either the father of the year or the biggest sucker on the planet - for a box seat to a Yankees game - it costs $280 each. I spend almost $600 to give my daughter the same experience my father paid less than $20 for 40 years ago.
I'm absolutely stunned...and I remembered how I thought pro football tickets were so expensive when I was young. It's amazing how football is now considered a reasonably priced ticket when compared to baseball, which has 10 times the number of home games and in some cases, costs 2 to 3 times more per ticket. And baseball wonders why fans are turned off the game....By the way, a quick check shows the Mets charge $117 and the Red Sox charge $125 for the comparable seat...
It's a sad reality - I'll go to the game and enjoy the experience with my daughter, realizing I will be giving her something that's out of reach for alot of kids...but, it will be a looooong time before I set foot in the new Yankee Stadium. Guess I'll move my seat into the living room and sit there to watch games...
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