$2,625.00?? Are you Kidding Me?

A front row seat at the new Yankee Stadium will cost $2,625.00 per game.  Look at that number again:  It's not $26.25, but $2,625.00.

By my calculation, $2,625.00 will buy you 525 tickets to a New Market Rebels game, which at current prices is over 23 seasons worth.  Or, put another way, Sarah, Becky, Martha, and I could go to almost every game for the next 6 years.  Or--and it's right before lunch as I write this--I could go to every game this season and still have $2,515.00 to buy hamburgers and nachos, which I calculate to be almost 23 servings of each per game.  (Hey, math might not be so dumb after all, but you have to have read a previous entry to know what I'm talking about.)

I ask myself, who in the world would pay this kind of money to see a baseball game, but it occurs to me that whoever he may be, he is less interested in seeing and more interested in being seen.  Such a person could probably make that kind of money and achieve the same result by renting himself out as store-window mannequin.  Certainly the difference in intellect and character between such a person and a store-window mannequin is not spacious.  In fact, I'd rather go to a ballgame with the mannequin.

In any case, we may draw several conclusions from the facts above:  1) People have way too much money to spend even in this economy; 2)  The Yankees are antithetical to all that is good and right;  3)  You should take the $2,625.00 and take me, Sarah, Becky, Martha, and the mannequin to every Rebels' game this season and buy us all hamburgers and nachos.  Oh, and a pennant, too, as you'll still have money to spare.

Comments

[Anna Kipps]

I think they have to charge that much or all their payroll checks would bounce. I'm sure Mark Teixiera needs those millions of millions. Haha. I'm just glad The Yankees are having an exhibition series for cheap before the regular season starts. We got 4 tickets for 25 cents each!

[Becky]

Anyone who buys one of those tickets should be thrown in the Hudson.

[Nick W]

And you know the best part? You'll actually be entertained more at the Rebels game. Those players still want to please the audience. When they get to the "big league" it becomes all about them. I'll take minor league any day (with all the cheesy "between innings" entertainment).

[Austin]

Me, too, Nick! By the way, I'm writing a story on the all the crazy Hagerstown Suns' promotions for the July/August issue of Hagerstown Magazine.

[Melissa Dodge]

Not only are the Rebels players more entertaining to watch---you get to sit close enough to pick up their little game rituals and personality quirks, but the crowd antics and game entertainment are worth the price of admission in themselves! From the time you sit down and begin perusing the colorful musings of 'the Contented Fan' in your FREE, yes, that's right, FREE game program, to watching 'Front Row Fred' heckle the umpires and opposing coach--especially if it's a certain gentleman from over the gap (you know, smoke really can be coaxed from the human ears...), to taking part in a rousing rendition of "Take Me out to the Ballgame" during the stretch---which is sometimes accompanied by a very talented young man on the banjo. Oh! and let's not forget the occasional chicken dance performed by one or two dedicated fans. You'd never believe that 36,247 fans could have so much fun for so little money!

[Austin]

Preach on, sister!