Cubs are #1...In ticket prices.

[C.C.]

Cubs tickets at Wrigley Field cost most

 

NEW YORK (AP)—The Chicago Cubs have the highest-priced tickets for regular seats in the major leagues, overtaking the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.

 

Tickets at Wrigley Field for non-premium sections average $52.56 this season following a 10.1 percent increase, the Team Marketing Report said Wednesday in its annual study.

 

Boston’s Fenway Park was second at $52.32 following a 4.1 percent hike. At Yankee Stadium, where some lower-deck seats without free food were reclassified premium at the request of the team, the average was set at $51.83, up 0.4 percent.

 

The Arizona Diamondbacks have the lowest average at $14.31. The overall average in the big leagues was $26.74, up 1.5 percent.

[ConstableRabbit]

Does this exclude taxes?

[jersey cubs fan]

non-premium? pointless ranking.

[Soul]

So basically the Cubs low-priced seats are the highest in the country. Not sure that means much.

[CubbieBum]

Wow. 10.1 increase in one season. Looks like Ricketts is planning on upping payroll by charging everyone more.

[TruffleShuffle]

not really sure why this is a huge deal - they're a very popular team, play in a really famous ballpark that has a smaller capacity than most ballparks and sell out most games. if people are willing to keep paying that much for tickets then charge away.

[MADD_DOG_31]

So basically the Cubs low-priced seats are the highest in the country. Not sure that means much.

 

 

Exactly right

 

For one, Wrigley is smaller and they don't have as many non-premium seats as other parks and 2, the non-premium seats include the bleachers which are a hot commodity at Wrigley and not so in many other parks

 

Dumb statistic

[Soul]

not really sure why this is a huge deal - they're a very popular team, play in a really famous ballpark that has a smaller capacity than most ballparks and sell out most games. if people are willing to keep paying that much for tickets then charge away.

 

Absolutely.

[UMFan83]

Yeah I mean it sucks that we have to pay so much but I don't fault them for charging that much if our fans will pay it and pack the place. The price of being popular I guess. The best part about all the tickets basically selling out is that if the team sucks, I can go to a lot of games for dirt cheap. The downside of course is that when they are awesome, it's nearly impossible to get a cheap ticket.

[Soul]

To me it means the team is financially able to command large sums of money which *should* translate into better baseball on the field.

 

Of course, in practice it doesn't always work out that way. But I'll still take a Cubs franchise that can throw a large payroll out there if necessary over a team that is always hamstrung.

[hawkcub]

Not going to lie I was not happy about the ticket price increase. Anyone who liked it is one of three things a liar, doesn't go to the games, is named Tom Rickets.

 

But in reality the price of the tickets while not something I liked I would have forgot about it quickly if they wouldn't of tried to pull a fast one with it. The whole charging the amusement tax after the ticket price while before it was in the price of the ticket pissed me off. Then acting like they weren't raising ticket prices that much.