Baseball season tickets.

[State82]

Anyone else think the cost increase for a season ticket is out of line? I could live with $10 or $15, but seems that they went up about $50 from last year, best I can remember. That is exorbitant. I was going to rejoin the Dugout Club after a two year absence in protest of the program's dismal condition prior to Cohen coming on board, but not now. This is my only beef with Byrne to date.

 

[cowbellpresident]

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[hatfieldms]

The money for new coaches and buy outs, and practice fields have to come from somewhere

 

[patdog]

You have a beef with Byrne for charging market prices for tickets instead of giving them away? 17 you and that whole Templeton attitude. If you don't want those tickets, don't buy them. Somebody else will.

 

[ArrowDawg]

.........understand that for some people these price increases may be tough on them financially, but the fact is they're needed for the overall success of our programs.

 

[VinceVega70]

My hope is that we get priority seating in baseball soon. I'd gladly pay more as would many boosters who give more to the BC than many of those who grandfather into chairback baseball seats. What's good for football and basketball will be good for baseball too.

 

[dawgphd]

about 1.50 per game? Pay the increase or move on and let someone else have your seats. If we talk the talk in baseball we have to walk the walk.

 

[snoopdog9]

I don't see how they could take them away from me. Unlike basketball, where they told season ticket holders in the 70's they could keep their seats by simply buying season tickets every year (with no extra fee), I was told they are my seats forever (for $1000 per seat one time of course), as long as I continue to purchase season tickets,which I have to the tune of another $4000 or so over the 8 years. In other words, I paid good money for my rights already, unlike the old basketball season ticket holders. If they want to break the verbal contract they have with me that's fine. They can pay me my $4000 back with interest. I hate to tell you guys this, but the chairbacks aren't worth paying some premium every year like football or basketball. Unless it's a big series or the regionals, there just isn't the demand. You can fork over the money like I did, or simply walk up and spend 5 or 10 bucks and go see most of the games anyway. I like my seats, but if there is a yearly fee, you can have them. They aren't worth it. However, I won't complain about the high cost of season tickets, since we hired Cohen. If Polk was still here, I would forfeit my $4000 and move on.

 

[statemba]

With most all of the games streamed live on M2M and most of the regionals and super regionals on TV most people are not going to shell out a yearly fee in addition to their football donations for baseball seats. Like a previous poster said, unless it is a really big weekend chairbacks are not really in that high of demand. Most games I go to I can walk up into the chairbacks and find a pretty good seat around the 5th inning on because not all the chairbacks are even being used.

I also think in the future you will see us chairback down both foul lines and that will also eliminate the chairback prestige as everyone will have a chairback seat then. I say in the next 3 years you will see us have chairbacks down both lines as Byrne is going to keep our facilities up with what other schools have such as LSU, SC, ARK, OM, Auburn etc

I personally do not buy baseball season tickets anymore because I just can not make enough games to make it worth it. I can spend quality time at home on spring afternoons and catch the games on M2M unless it is a really big weekend and then I can usually find tickets. It has gotten so hot during regionals and super regionals that I prefer to sit at home under the AC on the comfortable couch and watch regional and super regionals and the CWS.

 

[dawgoneyall]

bought chairbacks when the stadium was built in 87.

 

[beachbumdawg]

nfm

 

[dawgoneyall]

excuse.

Paper route? Picking up cans? Stealing from your parents?

If you had really wanted it...................................

 

[Stormrider81]

not to rejoin and pony up now that our AD has made what looks like a great hire? Typical MSU.

It's $50. People will spend that kind of money eating a meal. People will spend hundreds of dollars on electronics that will be obsolete in no time. People will buy new cars that depreciate in value as soon as they are driven off the lot. Yet people complain that MSU raises baseball season ticket prices by $50. Unbelievable.

MSU: where we expect something for nothing.

 

[8dog]

those seats are contractually the property of the people that purchased them in 1987. Hopefully we'll build more and make those priority.

 

[99jc]

until they die or don't renew tickets. I was a day late and a dollar short there 8 dog.

 

[Dawg725]

I buy four tickets every year. My family has purchased them since the early 80's. They went from $515 to $860.

Guess what?

I have already paid for them with a huge smile on my face. I have NO problem in doing so.

I guaran-damn-tee you that LSU fans/Texas fans/Oregon State fans or any other successful program's fans don't *****.

 

[Southdowns]

at the new Box went from $300 to $750 this year (he has a pair), plus some kind of donation charge. He is in the bleachers on the third base side.

My four tickets, which are right behind the third base dugout, are $1,850 a piece which includes donation. The ticket manager told me that of the 7400 season ticketholders, only 2 people declined to renew at the new Box.

 

[State82]

thing about giving them away. Even a little increase is fine, just not $50-$60 per ticket. That's about 40%.