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Originally Posted by zappa1
$200 bucks for a family of four. And then they want the game to go fast so they can send ya's home. They steal your money and you get ripped off on a hurried up game. I have no problem sitting for a 17 inning game. Love it. If getting cut off from beer is your worry, that's when you should leave. There you go. Now it's even faster for you. Sounds like you are the one with the problem.
Can you imagine if you went grocery shopping and the manager told you 15 minutes to shop and get out. I bet you wouldn't go there anymore.
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Not that the grocer is a good analogy but as long as it's what we've got..
How about you go to the grocer and he says "I know in the past we got you in and out of the store in 1 hour, but now it's going to be 2 hours to get in and out with everything you need." Remember you have no recourse other than to leave early and not get everything you came for.
You ask why?
"well, were just not as efficient as we used to be. Shiela the checker has to fiddle with her sleeves in between each item she scans." "years ago when our checker scanned items the machine went beep, beep, beep, beep etc. Now it goes beep...........beep...........beep................ beep..............beep..... etc." "But it's all godd because we have a nice new store and you have more time to look at it in between the beeps."
Yes, the $200 is terrible. When I took my kids, back in the day, we got the cheapest seats at the Metrodome after driving 2.5 hours to get there. IIRC they were around $5. I see now they are more like $14\ $56 for 4, add food, gas, parking\or train and yeah getting to $200 wouldn't be hard to do. But, by cutting down your time in the park aren't they also cutting down your time to buy something? Beer\alcohol may be cut off after 7 but, nothing else is.
I also like to go early and see batting practice too. My favorite thing though is watching guys taking fielding and making throws. SS gets a ball in the hole and flicks it to first base where I'd need a crow hop to get it there
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I see a lot of talk about how this is because of the young crowd. Well this old boy sees it as returning to the way it was when I was young. 2.5 hour expectation, 3 hours for a high run game. Then if it went extra innings? I got a little "free" baseball for my money.