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San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Danfogel: And there is the correction I anticipated. Thanks.— June 3, 2015 10:37 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
danfogel: I'll take that one--the club actually made an effort to get legitimate MLB hitters in the park for this season (at least ones wearing a Padres uniform). I actually increased the size of my ticket package due to the Padres off-season moves.— June 3, 2015 10:36 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Don: They should have been more embarrassed by the product they put on the field.— June 3, 2015 10:05 a.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Don: Point taken, but I love baseball, don't pay much for my tickets, park on the street (for 50 cents or less per game), and don't buy beer at the games, so I go fairly thrifty at the ballpark.— June 2, 2015 10:49 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Don: They used to, but not anymore.— June 2, 2015 10:46 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Don: I believe MLB went to announcing tickets sold as official attendance based on complaints by the visiting teams in the NL. The AL I believe had announced paid attendance based on tickets sold (and not turnstile count) for many years, but the NL continued to announce the turnstile count as the official attendance, and at that time, the visiting teams in the NL got a small percentage of gate receipts (this is based on my ever-increasingly fading memory--if wrong, I'm sure I will be corrected). This cost NL visiting teams some $$, as gate receipts for unused tickets didn't count and the home team got to keep that revenue. Example--in 1985, the Padres announced attendance was 2.2 million (the visiting team's split was based on that figure), but the Padres actually sold 2.6 million tickets that season. A nice additional drop in the bucket for the Padres coffers that season.— June 2, 2015 3:24 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Don: I would rather watch the team of my choice in the seat of my choice, which is what I'm doing now.— June 2, 2015 3:13 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
My season seats are priced at $15/game, and I would guess that there are some spots in the park with season seats averaging under $15/game. But obviously, not good seats.— June 2, 2015 2:18 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
Don: I'm not sure why the team's method for counting attendance has been criticized--they count all tickets sold, not turnstile count, as the official attendance per MLB guidelines.— June 2, 2015 2:15 p.m.
San Diego ranks 30th as baseball city
It amazes me how they can arrive at a figure for an average ticket price at all, since the Padres don't even list individual game prices. The club insists upon using a dynamic pricing model--meaning that prices fluctuate on a game-by-game basis--some games, a particular seat will be less expensive (example: a Tuesday night against the Diamondbacks), and other nights that same seat will be much more expensive (a Saturday night against the Giants or Dodgers). Incidentally, the Padres are currently 12th out of 30 teams in MLB in attendance--at their current pace, they will draw almost 400,000 more fans total than last season.— June 2, 2015 12:49 p.m.