There s no question that both the Mets and Yankees turned out profits this year. And no, who they play does not affect prices, unless one is a scalper in the Metropolitan area. Oh, to be a scalper. I shudder to think what these tickets will go for on the street. The price of going to a baseball game is too damn much.
Baseball is the elite sport of our nation because only the elite can afford to watch it.
One could make a trip down to San Pedro de Macoris, in the Dominican Republic, and not only get to watch young kids play great baseball but have the opportunity be humanitarian, since most of the children live in poverty. Picture little Sammys, Pedros and Vlades all on the same field and yourself not paying out the arse to see it. The intensity of play would be comparable to that in the Bigs, and two month s salary would not go to a waste such as a World Series ticket. While the characters in question tend to be Yankee fans, there exist a good many who will pay it at Shea as well. These are the front-runners, those who cheer for General Electric and Standard Oil to root out competition.