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| lousy night at the game |
| Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
My dad and I hit an MLB game again tonight, and this one... didn't go so well for us. I'm not in any hurry to get back, needless to say.
To begin with, the web site said the game had an 8:10 start time, which is really rare; night home games almost always start at 7:10. So my dad and I went and got a taco before we left for the stadium, thinking we had an extra hour. As we approached the place, we could hear the starting lineups being announced, and we knew we had a 7:10 game after all. We wound up missing the top of the first inning and getting shitty seats, as you'll see. The team's web site has since been corrected.
So with all the renovations they've done to the stadium, they also put in a new section of seating sponsored by Dri-Duck called the Dri-Duck Fountain Seats, and they're only $7 each. We hadn't tried those out yet, so around 1:00 this afternoon, I drove over to the ticket window at the stadium to get a couple.
There was a sign up that said the fountain seats were only sold after 4:30 p.m., and only at Gate E. All right, I came back at 4:30... and found that they were already charging for parking. You could no longer get up to the ticket window without forking over $9 to park for five minutes.
I went back to work thinking we'd head over there once I was off and get them then. Turns out the fountain seats had sold out in under 20 minutes, and the least expensive seats left were $18 each.
All right, we grabbed two of those... and they were lousy. They were the nose-bleedingest seats we'd ever gotten, and to make things worse, the atrocious new glass railings they installed on that level blocked our view of the field to an extent that the old railings never did. We just... did the best we could. Good thing we won the game 5-0, we at least had that.
So the question remains: how do you get to the ticket window for fountain seats without being gouged for parking? My theory is that you don't; they've set the times the way they have so that everyone who gets those cheap seats will also have to pay for parking, and they recoup some of they money they've "lost." It also wouldn't surprise me if they make you show your parking receipt as a requirement for getting tickets in that section, but I have yet to put that to the test.
Not to mention the fact that there's been a significant jump in ticket prices, presumably to pay for the renovations, despite the fact that the renovations were supposed to be paid for by the tax hike we saw over a year ago. Boy, if I hadn't already lost all respect for the organization, I probably have now.
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