{"id":2606,"date":"2010-05-26T00:51:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T05:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2010-06-09T01:57:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T06:57:14","slug":"premium-game-for-tuesday-night-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/premium-game-for-tuesday-night-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Premium Game for Tuesday Night Baseball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 \u00bd weeks ago, I questioned whether White Sox management knew <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/not-a-prime-friday-night-at-u-s-cellular-field\/\">how to price their tickets<\/a> for weekend games against opponents nobody really cares about. After attending tonight\u2019s Cubs game, I am now questioning whether the Cubs know how to price some of their games as well. Cubs management made a mistake when they made tonight\u2019s game versus the Dodgers a premium-priced game \u2013 the most expensive games at Wrigley Field for the 2010 season.<\/p>\n<p>Last night\u2019s attendance was only 34,749 (84.4% full) \u2013 a far cry from their usual 40,000+ crowd. This lack of attendance shows that the ticket prices for tonight\u2019s game were too high even though the Cubs may have generated more revenue.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Beg, Borrow and Deal<\/span><br \/>\nAs usual, with a game that was not sold out I looked for deals on the streets outside of Wrigley Field. I did not end up looking for tickets until after the game started since I went to Mullen\u2019s Wrigleyville before the game. I was only looking for good seats tonight since I was with my friend who bought my ticket on Opening Day. I went to one of the ticket brokers with a store front along Addison St. and bought two tickets in Section 133 row 13 for $35 each (face value was $78.04 each).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago Cubs<\/span><br \/>\nRyan Dempster shut down the Dodgers only giving up three-hits in eight innings in the 3-0 Cubs victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 \u00bd weeks ago, I questioned whether White Sox management knew how to price their tickets for weekend games against opponents nobody really cares about. After attending tonight\u2019s Cubs game, I am now questioning whether the Cubs know how to price some of their games as well. Cubs management made a mistake when they made tonight\u2019s game versus the Dodgers a premium-priced game \u2013 the most expensive games at Wrigley Field for the 2010 season.<br \/>\nLast night\u2019s attendance was only 34,749 (84.4% full) \u2013 a far cry from their usual 40,000+ &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[170,45,44,258],"tags":[336,364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}