$3.95

[nando714]

My brother came back from school this weekend and wanted to check out a game and i just paid $11 and change ($3.95 ea.)for 3 tix for tonight's game on stub hub. We'll some where on field level

[Tyler]

Nice come up

[Homebrewer]

You were overcharged.

[Ohtaniland]

Why did you pay? They're letting people hop the fence now.

[gotbeer]

But you could buy them through the Angels and sit up in Upper View for $5.  

[m0nkey]

Awesome. Less people to deal with at the stadium now

[RallyMo]

That's not a deal. I bought two tickets to game one of the Spurs-Warriors series for $14 last week.

[tomsred]

Is this kind of like bragging about how someone bought a 1979 Yugo for $100?  Just want to understand the purpose of this thread.

[CaliAngel]

I don't think you could pay me $3.95 to get me to the stadium. 

 

$25 Mill a season? Sure, I'd show up. 

[RallyMo]

$25 Mill a season? Sure, I'd show up. 

 

Beyond that, no guarantees.

[jsnpritchett]

I don't think you could pay me $3.95 to get me to the stadium. 

 

$25 Mill a season? Sure, I'd show up. 

 

So you're taking the Hamilton approach then?  Showing up to collect a check, nothing more, nothing less. 

[Stradling]

Cali, are you really so fickle that you wouldn't pay less than $5 to go to an Angel game? I am not saying that is wrong, I just don't understand. I totally get being frustrated with this team based on expectations, but to not go to a game for basically free, that I don't understand. I guess this is how I see it. Going into the season I expected this team to make it to the playoffs. That appears to no longer be the case. But that doesn't mean, at least for me, that I can't go to a game and enjoy it on a game by game basis. I am guessing the fact that I grew up going to the stadium when they always sucked might have something to do with it for me. But I just truly love being at the stadium and watching the only sport I truly love. I enjoy basketball and football, but baseball is my passion and without it, something just feels like it is missing.

[CaliAngel]

I understand your argument Stradling, but that's really the thing: I can't enjoy going to the park on a game by game basis right now, because this team has not played good baseball in 3+ years! I can enjoy listening to them on the radio or watching it on TV, but that's because I know I can shut it off. And even through radio or TV I cringe when I see or hear how these guys play. It's so bad. 

 

The Angels are my favorite ball club no doubt, gone to their games since t-ball, so I'm not sure fickle is the right word. I'd say a more accurate word is stubborn. I am definitely of the attitude that I am not going to reward them with my attendance for playing crappy baseball.

 

If it was $5 total for me to park and get into the stadium to watch the game, I might consider it. But I went to a couple games last year, even organized as many as 6-8 of my friends and their girlfriends to go to the games, and I have to say I regretted it. The time, the money, it was just awful. Even one of my buddies who doesn't know much about baseball kept wondering why they kept watching strikes go by to swing at balls and hit pussy dribblers. Another friend wondered why they changed a pitcher who was fooling batters the previous inning. To hear it from my friends magnified the fact that this team, in this big stadium, with all the glitz and glamour, still weren't fooling anybody. 

 

Here's the thing: if the games are good, close, fun to watch, and the Angels lose in the process, I'm fine with that. You can't win 'em all, and I can excuse the loss because it was a fun game to watch. When I spend time and spend money to go to a game, all I ask is to see good baseball. And from when I started watching this team when I was young, up until a couple years ago, the Angels used to play good baseball.

 

But the bottom line is right now this team just doesn't play good baseball. And I'm not going to pay them to watch it. 

[AZMike]

 

 

Here's the thing: if the games are good, close, fun to watch, and the Angels lose in the process, I'm fine with that. You can't win 'em all, and I can excuse the loss because it was a fun game to watch. When I spend time and spend money to go to a game, all I ask is to see good baseball. And from when I started watching this team when I was young, up until a couple years ago, the Angels used to play good baseball.

 

But the bottom line is right now this team just doesn't play good baseball. And I'm not going to pay them to watch it. 

 

^^^ 

This x100

 

The last few times I've gone to games with casual baseball friedns the games have been super depressing. Like Angels getting hits only to erase the baserunners due to hit and run blunders or grounding into double plays. Then the Angels snatching defeat from the jaws of victory after bringing the blowpen in.

 

Games back in the late '90s / early '00s were more entertaining to watch as the team actaully had a bullpen that could give the team a chance to come back and walk off, evne though those teams were mostly at or below .500 there weren't nearly as many depressing blunders as I see in Angels baseball today.

[Stradling]

Ok fair enough. I strongly disagree but I'll chalk that up to us having different personalities. Bad baseball is better than no baseball and baseball is still the most affordable form of entertainment.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

I agree with Cali 100%

[Mark68]

If someone paid for my flight from DEN to SNA (or LAX, or ONT) and my rental car and my hotel room, then I wouldn't mind paying $3.95 to go to the game.

[LBHalos17]

If someone paid for my flight from DEN to SNA (or LAX, or ONT) and my rental car and my hotel room, then I wouldn't mind paying $3.95 to go to the game.

Tickets are at the gate; car's waiting for you; game's on Cali.... you gotta put-out after tho.

[Stradling]

I agree with Cali 100%

Read what you just wrote.

[tomsred]

I look at it this way, it's cheaper than a movie, lasts longer, it's live, you can drink all you want, you don't have to turn off your cell phone or be quiet. As a matter of fact I'm at the game right now, it's warm but pretty nice out right now.

[2002_halos_II]

There is (or was) $5 parking in the structure across from the Grove (Sunday game in April).  Price may depend on the day, Dunno.

 

It was $10 to park in the Angels lot.

[nando714]

$11 for 3 tix....picked up from stub hub...same lot $5 parking....pounded beers in the lot bc today is my friday...paid under $20 for parking and tix...id do that many times more with my 2 brothers... whether we suck or not

[Vegas Halo Fan]

You were overcharged.

 

I would demand a refund of at least half of that.

[Fontana Halo]

Angel tickets are cheaper than gas.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I may have to rethink my plans about buying tickets for a game in the Yankees series. They might be affordable after all. Of course, I might be drowned out by all the pinstriped fans.