Ticket Prices
Written by Mike on October 11, 2007 – 11:37 pm -
The St. Louis Cardinals have raised ticket prices 3 percent for the 2008 season. Team president Mark Lamping indicated today that season ticket holders will be notified of the 3 percent increase by mail and e-mail.
“We believe that Cardinals tickets will remain a great value,” Lamping said.
The price hike averages out to about $1.15 a ticket. View the full story, with more quotes from the club president here.
So, does this mean that Dewitt really does plan to raise the payroll into the $110 million range as he said? I’d like to think so, but we’ve all heard the “if the right player comes along” line far too many times. I think I’ll take a “wait and see” approach. Why do ticket prices have to go up? Was there not enough money generated by the new stadium? Wasn’t every game over the last two seasons a sellout? Didn’t the club record an all time attendance record in ‘07? Didn’t we buy everything from infield dirt to urinals from the old stadium? I guess that wasn’t enough for Mr. Dewitt to raise the payroll. Now he’d like those 3,552,180 fans to each give him another $1.15. I imagine that if “the right player” doesn’t come along, he’s going to have quite a few angry Cardinal fans to answer to.
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By shanoose on Oct 12, 2007 | Reply
Poor Mr. Dewitt, he needs money so badly that Busch Stadium can now be rented out for holiday parties! I think ticket prices are going up because Mr. Lamping knows that since Cardinal fans are the best fans in baseball, they’ll pay whatever they have to just to go to the games.
By Mike on Oct 12, 2007 | Reply
Think of the money they made from all the World Series Champion merchandise. I bought 3 shirts, a DVD, a shotglass, and a Fredbird myself. I’m one of the fans that will pay whatever I have to for tickets. I just hope the payroll goes up.
By Anonymous on Oct 25, 2007 | Reply
Stop praying if you had omar he could spend some money for you also you guys are just to old get young you know my team has a bright future with that infield the only saving grace you got is that tony came back and i do think he is one of the best mgrs. in the game today and maybe of all time. one other thing has your center fielder applied for his aarp card yet lmao