poppysox

The 20% skybox crowd doesn't much care what the price of beer is. There are lots of people, myself included, that can afford $13.50 for a beer but would never pay it because it's ripoff pricing as far as I'm concerned. If you charge $20 for a beer at the ballpark...they will only sell a fraction of the beer they sell today. If they lower the price to $5...they will sell a lot more beer. Where the magic perfect price point is to produce the most profit, I don't know. JR tries to have it both ways by having promotional nights but I fear the pricing out of being a fan for later generations.

Yeah...when the cost of doing business goes up you think the pricing of the products goes down. You must be one of those economists that work for the government.

That was never my argument and I think you know it.

Unknown but possible.

My "grasp" of this subject is just fine. When costs go up prices go up. If costs stay the same or go down...we have no idea if prices will go up or down. The problem some of you have is that you suspect prices always go up because JR and most owners are greedy. What I can't grasp is how long the game can survive this out-of-control cost to the ball fan.

I don't care whether people agree with me or not. My argument has always been the fans will be the loser.

Owners of businesses are trying to increase profits every year. If lowering the prices would create more profit they would do it. Maybe lowering prices by 20% would increase sales enough to make them even more profitable. Doesn't seem to be the way baseball teams or most businesses operate.

I think it's a fair point to say when costs go up...prices go up.

I would say resorting to name-calling is a sign of ignorance. You are an admin and resort to this crap...shame on you.

That is no surprise to some of us accused of being pro owners in the labor dispute. Those multi-millionaire salaries will be paid for by someone and it won't be JR.

We think alike on this point.

I was thinking Easter would have been a nice symbolic day for Cueto to join the big club.

What makes you think of him?

Yep.

Winning 1 run games always feels great and losing 1 run games hurt a little extra. Best to win them.

Harrison and Garcia are both great as role players just not starters. If Burger and Moncada are in the lineup it sure looks tiring for the pitchers we face.

Cliff Politte of the 2005 club had that same feel for me.

When Cease can find the strike zone he is as good as anybody.

We need one of those 12-1 laughers.

The standings already look very much how I would expect them to end up.

That Rick Hahn is one smart guy.

You are not the only one.

I agree. I pay for MLB.TV with the knowledge I am blacked out of the games in the state where I reside. I don't like it but that's the deal. This Apple+ crap steals 3 or so extra games from me. I am not going through the hassle of signing up for yet another streaming service. I'll follow tonight's game on Gameday and if this keeps up MLB can go scratch.

I agree to disagree.

JR spends 187 million and is considered cheap. Give 1 player a 35M per year deal for 3 years and surround him with 25 guys making 1 M per year...JR is no longer a cheap SOB. My bet is JR doesn't much care what we think. This stuff is probably amusing to him.