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by Geoff Young on February 12th, 2008

Simple question, really:

How many games do you attend in a typical season?

Feel free to expand on your answer in the comments…

Larry
Feb 12, 2008 at 1:11 pm

It’s funny, but not in a ha-ha way. There was a time when I would go to 30 or 40 games a year. I had far less disposable income, and the Mets of the mid to late 80s were a hot ticket, but I would get on a train and head to Shea, and buy a ticket or three from a scalper, and get anywhere from good to excellent seats. Even buying tix that way, somehow it was doable.

These days I live in Seattle. Safeco is a beautiful ballpark. The fans are maybe not so rabid as in NY, but knowledgeable and friendly. And since Sweet Lou left town, there’s been no reason to even think about buying from a scalper. But the cost of tickets, and of everything else in the ballpark, and the incredible volume of booze flowing, make the experience tough to endure, and my watching is increasingly done online or on TV.

And at least a couple of games a year are back at Shea (even one at Yankee Stadium last year. ugh.), where the beer drinking is even worse than out here, and the drinkers are loud, rowdy and offensive, and the tickets and such are priced just as prohibitively. So I know it isn’t a local phenomenon.
Geoff Young
Feb 12, 2008 at 3:17 pm

Yeah, unfortunately “that element” does seem to be more prevalent at games these days. I wish they’d stick to watching football…
Steve C
Feb 13, 2008 at 8:34 am

or WWE

I try to make it out to 10+ games a year usaly on give away nights.