| Recent Posts | About the Author | Navigation |
|---|---|---|
|
|
David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
|
| Recent Comments | ||
|
|
||
| Recent Photos | ||
|
|
||
6 April 2006 - 11:34 am
A week ago I was despairing about Cardinals tickets being so much harder to come by this year than they've been in the past. I had no tickets and was beginning to think that I'd have to buy some SRO tickets if I wanted to see the new Busch. But what a difference a week makes. I've now got tickets to three games over the next two months, and I didn't have to pay excessive fees on ebay to get them. Two of them came straight from the Cardinals normal website, and got me some into Outfield Loge Box seats (section 268) and Outfield Terrace Box (section 334). I also managed to nab some field level seats (section 133) from the Prime Seat Club.
The main thing I've noticed about getting tickets this year is that it seems like the middle tier of tickets are a lot more expensive than they were last year. The past two years I was lucky enough to get some tickets at field level, 12 rows back of the screen. They ran me just a bit more than $40 per seat. This year, while the field-level tickets still seem to be in that price range, the middle tier like the Outfield Loge and Outfield Terrace seats, are also approaching $40 per ticket. True, Outfield Terrace Reserve is still cheap ($13 normally, $18 for premium games), but there aren't nearly as many Terrace Reserve seats in the new stadium as there were in the old. Take a look at the new Busch Stadium layout. Terrace Reserve only goes around the bottom third of the stadium. In the old Busch, Terrace Reserve seating was available almost all the way around the stadium (the only exception being three sections in the middle where the scoreboard was located). The Terrace Reserve sections were also the biggest sections in the stadium, with more than 25 rows in each section. The new Terrace Reserve sections have only 11 rows.
The new Busch Stadium has about 7,000 seats less than its predecessor (50,000 at the old Busch vs. 43,000 at the new Busch). And the real disservice to fans is that reductions seems to have been almost entirely done at the cheap end of the spectrum. Going to a baseball game is not something that can easily be done casually or inexpensively any longer, and that's too bad.
Posted by on 6 April 2006 at 11:33 AM
Comments