Mets Get Into that Liverpool/Crane Pool Swing of Things

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Mets celebrate the 50th anniversary of Shea Stadium by rolling back ticket prices for this weekend's series against the Braves to $3.50 -- the price of a 1964 field level box seat. In this 2014 version of $3.50 seats, you get to sit in the Outfield Promenade, 550 feet away from home plate and three zip codes farther away than from a 1964 $3.50 field level Shea box. What? You thought the Mets weren't gonna adjust for inflation when they rolled back their prices?

They're also rolling back hot dog prices to the 1964 price of thirty-five cents. For a quarter and a dime, you can purchase two Gulden's mustard packets. (Hot dog, bun and sauerkraut are extra).

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ticketing/1964.jsp

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[Guest d'Kong76]

$3.50 is pretty cheap, and you don't have sit wherever your
ticket is. They have condiment islands all over to put whatever
you want on your 35� hot dogs.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I just read a tweet that the Mets have 70,000 frozen hot
dogs left over from last year and they plan to empty the
freezers this weekend. Brilliant!

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: $3.50 is pretty cheap, and you don't have sit wherever your ticket is. They have condiment islands all over to put whatever you want on your 35� hot dogs.

You can't sit wherever you want with an outfield promenade ticket -- you especially can't sit where the equivalent of Shea's 1964 $3.50 seats are. And your condiment comments misses the point of my original post.

But if you insist on taking my post literally to poke holes in it, you could calculate inflation according to the Consumer Price Index, to determine that $3.50 today is about 46 cents in 1964 money. And 46 cents in 1964 would've probably put a baseball fan in the outfield bleachers -- not that Shea had outfield bleachers, let alone outfield bleachers three or four levels up, although the farthest reaches of the upper deck did extend beyond the foul poles and into fair territory -- but a fair exchange nonetheless.

Of course, I don't see my little joke as being flawed. If there's any flaw, it's with the Mets equating a $3.50 outfield promenade seat today with a 1964 $3.50 field level box seat.

[Guest d'Kong76]

All I meant was that $3.50 gains you entry into the stadium.
I have bought a ticket cheap and just wander with the game on
the radio. I like the Pepsi porch area and out in the outfield on
the field level. Doesn't bother me being hundreds of feet from
the field.

Wasn't questioning your economics, you took me too literally.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

d'Kong76 wrote: All I meant was that $3.50 gains you entry into the stadium. I have bought a ticket cheap and just wander with the game on the radio. I like the Pepsi porch area and out in the outfield on the field level.

Even in freezing, why-are-we-out-here conditions, the ushers tend to check tickets.

I have a feeling this might have something to do with propping up what should be especially slow Easter Weekend business.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I mean not sitting ... just wandering and watching from
different vantage points with game on radio.

Couldn't do that at Shea.

[batmagadanleadoff]

d'Kong76 wrote: you took me too literally.

Can you blame me, ol' chum?