2019 Sox increasing ticket prices thread

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Here is the detailed pricing. Looks like standing room and the cheap bleachers getting hit the hardest percentage wise. I'm still happy that my section 36 seats are deemed less valuable than the section 40-43 ones.

 

Smiling Joe Hesketh

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I know they raise prices every year, but this strikes me as particularly boneheaded. They had a lousy season and are publicly telling us they're going to trade their best player this offseason because payroll is too high. This is bad PR and will engender hard feelings in the fanbase.

I'm going to have a difficult time supporting the club if they trade Betts; raising prices to watch them play without his services is a bitter pill to swallow.
 
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Ale Xander

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I agree, SJH. This is severely tone deaf. Especially for the bad seats/no seats. It's not affordable to take a family to a non-"crap" game.
 

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I've had season tickets for 20 years and I'm seriously considering dropping them now. I sold just about every game I wasn't able to attend at a loss this year and that's certain to get much worse next year. If I ever want to go to a game, I can easily get tickets below face. Season tickets used to have some extra value, now they're just a increasingly large tax on fans to get access to playoff tickets.
 

Average Game James

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I've had season tickets for 20 years and I'm seriously considering dropping them now. I sold just about every game I wasn't able to attend at a loss this year and that's certain to get much worse next year. If I ever want to go to a game, I can easily get tickets below face. Season tickets used to have some extra value, now they're just a increasingly large tax on fans to get access to playoff tickets.
I split a season ticket package with a colleague for 7 years and gave it up after last year. Looked at the math, and realized I took pretty meaningful losses on sold games that was only offset by the surplus value of playoff tickets in the 2 World Series years. All in, I would have about broken even had I just bought secondary market tickets for every game I went to and that’s with a much better run of postseason performance than can be reasonably expected going forward. Money aside, it’s just easier not having to deal with selling games you can’t attend, dealing with ticket requests from friends/family, and it’s nice to have the flexibility to get a different number of seats or sit in a different part of the park. With the ease of getting tickets nowadays, season tickets just seem like an unnecessary hassle.
 

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One of things that I have loved about the baseball game experience is how democratic and egalitarian it can feel. People from nearly any and all walks can end up sitting next to each other, high fiving one another, cheering passionately but ultimately carefree, in common bond. And they didn't use to have to take out a second mortgage to do it. Now I look at the ticket prices above, and private seat licensing in new stadiums, and realize that those opportunities are ever more rapidly disappearing. For some time, maybe the past 15-20 years, average families have been getting priced out of the live entertainment and sports business.

Charging $33 for the cheapest seat, a bleacher seat 500 feet from home plate, is not to my mind the best way to grow the next generation of fans. And it does seem disproportionate. I understand market differences, but at Target Field, you can buy a 20 game ticket package in the upper deck, down the foul lines, and get relatively comfortable, non-obstructed view seats that face the infield, for $14 apiece. If you do have the money to spend, you can get club seating for the price the Sox are charging for comparatively lousy grandstand seats.

I don't know. At Fenway, it's getting to the point where, for far too many fans, going to a midweek April game against the Blue Jays is budget blowing. Going to a summer Yankee game is basically a bucket list experience. That's pretty sad.