I was watching the Sports Reporters on ESPN yesterday. If you have never seen the show, its four sports writers sitting in a room being super critical of athletes and owners. One guy was bloviating about the atrocity that owners get to charge “full price” to season ticket holders for pre-season games. Now, truth be told, pre-season games are an absolute waste of time and don’t compare in value to regular season games. However, what this guy fails to realize is that you are paying for the season ticket, not the individual games. (even though the tickets usually have an individual price printed on them) I wonder if he would be as outraged if the regular season ticket prices were increased by 10/8 (moving the pre-season price to regular season) and then giving the pre-season games away for “free”?
