Would putting a cap on ticket prices stop Steinbrener from turning baseball into an upper class sport?

Question

Maybe Bud doesnt see a need to cap salaries in baseball, but without one people like George will continue to attempt to buy every star on the market. He is a business man and he knows with the teams he puts together people will pay almost anything for a ticket. That is how he gets the money back he invests in his players. This kind of ownership is driving up ticket prices very quickly, and effectivly preventing lower and middle class families from being able to afford a night at the ballpark. I see this as a huge problem. Do you think a ticket price maximum would help? Do you think the leage has the athority and the right to do so? Or do you like the Yankees so much that you dont care what happens to baseball?

Answer 1

See the amount of abuse that you took from Yankee fans just for asking a legitimate question. Take your baseball business on the #7 train to Shea. It's not necessarily cheaper, but at least you would not be dealing with Yankee fans.

Answer 2

Ticket prices are a market. All markets are self regulating if you leave them alone. If you have 200 million tickets being sold for $1 you are going to fill every seat in the house. If you have one ticket for $200 million, you are going to have empty seats. The equilibrium in between these two numbers are what sets ticket prices. The Cleveland Indians hold the record for sellouts with 455 straight home games between 1995-2001. From a business standpoint, this is bad. If every seat in the house is filled, that means you aren't charging enough. In a perfect world, there would be one empty seat left at every game meaning the prices were high enough that the quantity demanded met the supply available, which is a finite number of seats at a finite number of games.

I have been to countless baseball games all over the country. If you think the prices are too high for tickets, wait until after the first inning and get some cheap ones off a scalper on the street, that's what I always do :)

Let's not forget the Marlins beat the Yankees in the World Series in 2003 with 1/5th the payroll of the Yankees. If people are willing to spend the money on an expensive ticket to see the Yankees, let them. As far as lower/middle class people not being able to goto a game, I call bs. You can get tickets on yankees.com to see the Red Sox/Yankees at Yankee Stadium for only $12.

Answer 3

There's a lot that goes into the decision make process of weather people in MLB ca n on a salary cap. The team owners need to have a meeting to agree apon, and then the players union also has to agree on it.

Also George is a business man, MLB is a business. It will do what it can to generate the most money that it can. Try to remember that.

At the same time, compared other sports in most cities it's cheaper to go to a baseball game than it is to go to a football game. Consider that with MLB teams having 81 home games as opposed to 8 they don't need to raise their ticket prices as high as NFL franchise do to make profit.

Answer 4

To be perfectly honest, ticket sales have very little to do with any revenue that the Evil Ones bring in. In fact, it's merely marginal when compared to the licensing fees they charge for memorabilia and apparel. The Yankees jersey, ballcaps, and anything with the dreaded NY across it bring in mega bucks for George Stinkbrenner.
In other words, I don't think paying his team large amounts more than other ball clubs can has anything to do with rising ticket prices. He does it, quite simply, because he can...and he's the Antichrist...

Answer 5

He will be the reason why there will be salary cap with in a few years so he can't buy world series championships like he did LAST century..and it hasn't worked so far this century and i hope it reamins that way

Answer 6

It wouldn't matter if you put a cap on Yanks tickets, they still have the Yes network where they make millions each year off of it.

Answer 7

nope. it might stop steinbrener, but not the yankees. the yankees will always be on top or marching their way there. new york new york. lol :)

Answer 8

go back to russia, you commy!