The Alkeiper Question of well, whenever

[alkeiper]

The most expensive ticket in Yankee Stadium is $2,625. Now, we had posts in the old LSD forum about posters who paid less than that for a couple hours sex with a porn star. With that in perspective, I have to ask.

What amenities would you require to spend $2,625 on a baseball ticket?

 

[tekcop]

You know, you'd probably be better off taking a trip and watching the Yankees play an away game.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

1.Unlimited concessions. This includes beer, which they will I.D. me for, see I'm 17, and then still serve me because I paid $2,625 for a baseball ticket.

2.I need to literally be in the dugout.

3.I want it to come with a hat. Not a shitty promotional hat. I want a legit new era baseball cap.

4.You better fucking win.

 

[Smues]

2.I need to literally be in the dugout.

The Diamondbacks actually have seats attached to the side of each (at least I think they have them in both dugouts) dugout. It's like a little extension of the dugout. I still wouldn't pay $2,625 for that.


In answer to Al's question the easy answer is there would need to be $2,500 cash sitting on my seat. Outside of that, I don't think it'd be possible for me to feel like I got my moneys worth. Even if I became a billionaire tomorrow I wouldn't buy those, I'd go for a luxury box instead. Upper outfield season tickets at Turner Field are $243. SEASON TICKETS. And yeah those are the cheapest seats but I've sat there and they're still not bad at all, especially the front rows. You could get TEN season tickets and have some change left over for the price of that one single game seat at Yankess Stadium.

Just for fun I just went to Ticketmaster and searched for a seat at that price. It came up with a seat behind the dugout, row 5. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and guess row 5 is the front row and the dugout is rows 1-4, because other wise it's even more of a ripoff. For that price it better be front row only. Again using Turner Field as an example, I bought tickets in a similar position at Turner Field SCALPED for like $55 each a few years ago.

I just can't see how there's anything that would make the seat worth it outside of money. Ok wait I got it, in the 8th inning they don't go to the bullpen, they bring in the person in the $2,625 seat to pitch. That's what it would take.

 

[KingPK]

Heidi Watney serving me unlimited hot dogs and beer in the Red Sox bikini Heather Graham wore in that movie.

Also, they should let me run the scoreboard in the Green Monster for an inning.

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

So wait, this is per game or a season ticket?

 

[Smues]

Per game. Seriously.

81 games * $2,625 per game = $212,625. Although I'd bet there would be some kind of season ticket discount, like maybe $209,625 for the whole season!


And that's ONE seat, and most people aren't like me and don't like going to games alone.

 

[alfdogg]

For every baserunner allowed, I get a free game of my choosing.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

I get to play.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

1: Autographed baseball, legit auto too. Like I see them signing it.
2: If I bring a friend/family, they get in free. I'm paying $2,000 whatever... they can take the hit of 2-3 free seats.
3: Unlimited concessions

I had really close seats at Fenway after a friend gave them to my Dad. It was a cool experience but I can't imagine paying more than $400 for those.

For comparison: My favorite experience was Bruins tickets to see Montreal the day before Xmas Eve around 5-6 seats away from the ice and those were $84.50 each for me and my Dad.

 

[Next USC #55]

A sniper gets to camp next to me and pick off any player that displeases me in the game.

 

[alkeiper]

1: Autographed baseball, legit auto too. Like I see them signing it.
2: If I bring a friend/family, they get in free. I'm paying $2,000 whatever... they can take the hit of 2-3 free seats.
3: Unlimited concessions

You know you can get this deal at Reading for roughly $30.

 

[Smues]

Something else I was thinking, I wouldn't want to sit in those seats because people are going to know that front row is $2,625 per seat, and I'd worry about people watching on TV, seeing me there, and assuming I'm rich and coming to kill/rob me.

 

[treble]

I think I saw Jeffrey Loria in the seats at yesterday's game, so he'd have to not be there, for starters.

 

[jimmy no nose]

There are a lot of stadiums around the league that will do a pregame buffet, seats behind homeplate, and free concessions delivered by waitresses throughout the game for under $200. Even when you have the money I honestly don't have any idea what someone would pay anything higher than that for.

 

[naiwf]

There are a lot of stadiums around the league that will do a pregame buffet, seats behind homeplate, and free concessions delivered by waitresses throughout the game for under $200. Even when you have the money I honestly don't have any idea what someone would pay anything higher than that for.

People who are willing to toss around upwards of a quarter million dollars for season tickets are people who NEED to be seen. I'm assuming you don't live in the NYC area but for the last 12 months I'd say a healthy portion of the calls to sports talk radio stations have been complaining about how the ticket prices or PSLs at all of the stadiums have gone through the roof and yet there's no shortage of people willing to buy them.

One of my aunts works for this law firm that had corporate box seats at Shea and almost every time I was lucky enough to get tickets from her over the years I was surrounded by balding douchebags who couldn't name more than 2 players on the team and women at least 10-20 years younger than they were who spent the majority of the game talking on their cell phones.

 

[kkktookmybabyaway]

Consider cost of living. A $2,625 ticket would only be $1,561 in Pirate-land.

 

[Mik]

I might pay that much if I were wealthy and it were game 7 of the World Series. Otherwise, I can't imagine a scenario where I would pay that much for a regular season game.

 

[Bored]

What amenities would you require to spend $2,625 on a baseball ticket?

Full body massage with happy ending. And that would just be the first inning.