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Old 08-08-2007, 02:21 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by highway80west View Post
Baseball is now a business, no longer just a sport. Same with football, especially the NFL. Why are those players like Pacman Jones keep running afoul with the law or getting suspended. They can't seem to stay out of trouble.

I plan to go to Boston next month and watch a few games at Fenway Park. When the players' salaries are about as high as the stratosphere, believe when I tell you that the lowest price for a face value ticket at Fenway Park is $18.00, compared to just $5.00 at Petco Park in San Diego.

So I suppose it means that the fewer number of seats, the higher prices of tickets there are. We know that Fenway Park seats over 35,000 people. Petco Park seats about 45,000 people.
The difference between those two teams is that Boston recently won a World Series. Success will alway attract more of a fan base (I use the word "fan" with a grunt).
There is, and may only be one team in all professional sports whom can field a loser and still fill seats and raise ticket prices: the Chicago Cubs.Now, as I post this, they are locked in a day to day lead change with the Milwaukee Bewers, but the Cubs still beak over two million in attendance every year. No othe team in baseball can claim this distinction. The Cubs are actually on pace to break three million this year!