benjoshua wrote:
What's amazing to me is that there are world conflicts going on, the economy is going down, or close to going down, and congress is talking about baseball?   I am no Clemens fan, but the priorities seem out of whack to me.  Can anyone tell me why congress has to get involved at this level?  I think they should debate the Mitchell report, pass laws about drugs if they want based on the Food & Drug Administration's recommendations or some other authoritative body, and move on.

Kingofpain89 wrote:

If Clemens is found to have taken steroids or HGH during his career I hope that the commissioner bans him from the sport for life just as they did Pete Rose.  Keep him out of the Hall of Fame and take away his World Series rings and MVP honors.  Let him spend the rest of his life regretting that he ever did what he did.  Unfortunately the baseball commissioner is a crook and a liar and needs to be indicted himself.  He knew about all of these problems long before Jose Canseco and others brought it to the publics view and he didnt do anything about it then and most likely wont do anything about it now.

killjoy32 wrote:
that wouldnt be the same guy who has a piece of liverpool football club would it? wow you wanna see the press he is getting here just now

Al

Of course, a lot of that is directed towards our own hometown scumbag Tom Hicks (raising prices this year after not going to the playoffs in a decade is a classic) and the desire for him not to make one cent off me.  Really rather sad because going to baseball games was one activitiy we used to do as a family back in the 70s; now, paying $125 for a beer and a hotdog while sitting in the upper deck watching millionaires loaf around on the field just makes me sick....

Kingofpain89 wrote:
Prices vary from year to year based on many variables.  Inflation is just one of them.  Paying ridiculous amounts of money for one player is another.  Good teams, especially teams that year after year make the playoffs, normally have higher than average payrolls than teams that dont.  There are a few exceptions though.  Florida won two World Series with a very low payroll.  But just one year after their World Series wins they unloaded the majority of their star players because they couldnt afford them anymore.  The Cubs on the other hand have had very high payrolls the past several years and have nothing to show for it other than two playoff appearances that fell short.  Florida's ticket prices are very low while the Cubs are some of the highest ticket prices in the MLB.  But as far as the Rangers go, they are still near the bottom as far as ticket prices are concerned.  Their beer is more expensive than most other teams but they also serve it in 22 oz. cups while most other stadiums server theirs in smaller increments....with the exception of St. Louis which uses a 24 oz. cup....go figure.  

As far as supply and demand....have you been to a Rangers game lately?  They sell out of very few games.  With the exceptions of the large market teams like the Yankees and Red Sox and their division rivals they have a pretty hard time filling seats.  I went to a Rangers game last year against the Cubs and the Cub fans outnumbered the Rangers fans by more than half.  It was definitely a shock.  Yet when I went to see them play the Baltimore Orioles, only about 75% of the seats were filled.  No one wants to see the Rangers.

It is definitely cheaper than seats at an NFL game, I will give you that.  Someone that goes to NBA and NHL games might be able to tell me if they are cheaper on the average than baseball games or not.  I would expect them to be.  They are also more entertaining for the most part...unless their is a bench clearing brawl because a pitcher beaned a batter or something like that.