Anyone interested in seeing seeing a Bees game?
Not since they moved
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Tried. My loan application for tickets wasn’t approved
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Geeze. Even the lawn tix are expensive. Anyone interested in a game of croquet?
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How do they justify having general admission tickets more expensive than a MLB ballpark? How are they doing with attendance relative to the old ballpark? Is exorbitant pricing for baseball what we can expect if we ever get a MLB team? I’ll pass.
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See this whole situation is what makes the whole Enterprise and b******* excuses they had so nefarious. They basically abandoned the cities very very old tradition of baseball in that neighborhood, because they were unwilling to do any work to try and improve the neighborhood they expected it to magically change.
But then when you add in the fact that basically there’s a simple mercenary greed mind of well we don’t want to have to pay anybody at least so we’ll just go build our own little park on our own private land, and will pass the entire cost for it onto the everyday person who wants to see a baseball game. Except with the economy exploding the way it is no one can afford that. The people who have the money for it won’t be interested.
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The key to making money in baseball will always be “butts in seats.” It is why the smart teams don’t price up the tickets - especially the minor leagues.
Our TDS team-owning sad sacks have chosen to reject that economic rule because they are smarter than over 100 years of MLB learning.
Pathetic and beyond stupid.
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Yep. Even here in Seattle the Mariners’ tickets are affordable - especially during the week. And tickets for the Triple-A farm team down in Tacoma are dirt cheap. Get the fans in, build loyalty and sell them concessions and merch. Winning business model.
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I remember the 70s when the Salt Lake Gulls on every Monday had Dan’s Foods night where you could get free tickets at Dan’s (idea being let the family in for free and make $$$ selling hot dogs, French Fries in plastic souvenir cups with Major League logos on them, ice cream, programs, miniature bats, team apparel, etc.)
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And the worst part for me is that Ryan Smith sold them real Salt Lake, maybe one of his less brilliant moves. I can understand not wanting to take on too much, but there had to be somebody better than that family to sell them to. I had just been able to finally go back to that stadium after we got rid of Hansen, and now for a different but equally critical matter of principle, I can’t go to games anymore. I made the vow when they stripped the baseball team away that I would never give them my money. So now I just have to pay for Apple TV so I can watch the MLS games that way. Probably just as well it’s going on almost 20 years since that stadium opened, and it was really nice to go to the university when they played there for the first couple years, but at 64 my body just can’t quite handle with ease the long trip down to Jordan Commons and then the walk over to the stadium and the walk back to the stadium and it actually with my feet is very difficult.
Plus in the long run it is a lot cheaper to just stay at home and eat some snacks that I have there rather than paying $20 for commemorative nachos or whatever 
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