Opening a can of Orange Whoopass...
Dec. 20th, 2002 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eggwardsBefore this news gets too old...
Baseball is my favorite sport to watch. Yes, both for the game and the players. I know many people find baseball boring and slow, fine. I like football and hockey, too, but baseball - despite how messed up labor relations, ownership and the commissoner's office are, is still my favorite.
That being said, my favorite team, the Houston Astros (I'm such a homer) signed the hunky Jeff Kent (porn mustache and all!) The Astros owner is pretty budget conscious, so this came as a surpise.
It's still only a token, in my book. An improvement - unless you consider that Craig Biggio will be moving to the outfield; but not too much, and the bottom line didn't move much. We still need pitching, Biggio and Bagwell are getting older, and the Cardinals and Braves have been doing much more to secure their positions. This is the first year in the last several that I don't think we'll go to the playoffs.
2 months til Spring Training.
Baseball is my favorite sport to watch. Yes, both for the game and the players. I know many people find baseball boring and slow, fine. I like football and hockey, too, but baseball - despite how messed up labor relations, ownership and the commissoner's office are, is still my favorite.
That being said, my favorite team, the Houston Astros (I'm such a homer) signed the hunky Jeff Kent (porn mustache and all!) The Astros owner is pretty budget conscious, so this came as a surpise.
It's still only a token, in my book. An improvement - unless you consider that Craig Biggio will be moving to the outfield; but not too much, and the bottom line didn't move much. We still need pitching, Biggio and Bagwell are getting older, and the Cardinals and Braves have been doing much more to secure their positions. This is the first year in the last several that I don't think we'll go to the playoffs.
2 months til Spring Training.
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Date: 2002-12-23 06:45 am (UTC)Yes, the ticket prices went up. The $1.00 pavillion seats (the astrodome was built just like Busch, the outfield seats) were a decent place to see a game, but the $5.00 seats at Enron Fie - oops, Minute Maid Park, are in a far off corner of the upper deck. How do you encourage people to come see games like that?
Minute Maid is nice, and the retractable roof is a gimmick, but we didn't have to have it. It did come in under budget - which is surprising, but still taxpayers and out-of-town hotel users will be paying for it for the next 30 years.
Attendance for the Astros has continued to decline since 2000, but they did have one ticket price increase anyway. Besides the $150 VIP seats, and the luxury boxes, the top ticket price is $35.
I used to contemplate getting season tickets, but I've never been able to afford them. I'll go to about 10 games, probably.