Yet Another Reason to Live in Arizona
Good news, Diamondbacks fans: Chase Field is still home to the cheapest beer in baseball.
Fourteen ounces of beer at a Diamondbacks game is still $4, making this at least the fifth season in a row the D-backs have had the cheapest beer in baseball.
OK, but how much do tickets cost? Example: second deck, behind home plate at Coors Field is ~$55 (depends on day of the game). Plus, in Denver one doesn't have to drive through Hades to get to the ball park.
Take a guess as to what sort of beer is served at Coors field...Colorado kool-aid.
Lower deck, towards the back, behind home plate, $53.50, depending on day of game of course :) In Phoenix, one never has to shovel sun.
Over $50 to see grass grow! When the unionized millionaires ended the 1984 baseball season for higher pay is when I checked out of being a baseball fan.
Last time I watched baseball was about 10 years ago when my company had a conference and we went to a Tigers game at Comerica - talk about a diamond in the rough!
I went to one Twins game, two years ago. The $83 tickets were a work perk. The beer was $10 and a hot dog was $5. The game was boring as hell, also. As this is quite a popular past time, I can only imagine that $200+ nights out are the primary reason the typical moron is up to their eyeballs in debt.
And a reason not to, if one can believe The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/03/sheriff-joe-arpaio-the-most-lawless-lawman-in-america/359613/
And from what I've read here, I guess we can, this time.
Back in the early 1970's the Phoenix Giants had dime beer nights. The beers came in paper cups in cardboard trays.
After the game they had a hard time getting people to leave the stadium.