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[85Knight]

I got the Rookie level flex membership this season and it was a great deal. Got the renewal info for 2025 and apparently the Orioles do not want me to renew.

Price went from 600 to 790.
Eliminated the discount on alcohol.
Reduced the discount on their garbage concessions.
No presale access to ALCS and WS.
Elimination of mlb.tv inclusion.

If they sign Burnes, I might forgive. But OPACY continues to go down hill.

Wow. That's pretty shocking. I hope this becomes a big deal. Not a good look for new ownership. Thanks for the info.

[ivanbalt]

Where does it say theyre eliminating mlb tv?

I assume since it isn't listed it's gone.

[NewMarketSean]

Yup, just looked and there will be no discount for alcohol for any level of season ticket holders. 

 

We already have the second most expensive beer in MLB and I expect prices will only increase.

 

Not saying beer is the biggest part of me going to the game but I do enjoy a couple and I refuse to pay $45 for two beers.

[mweb08]

Yup, just looked and there will be no discount for alcohol for any level of season ticket holders. 

 

We already have the second most expensive beer in MLB and I expect prices will only increase.

 

Not saying beer is the biggest part of me going to the game but I do enjoy a couple and I refuse to pay $45 for two beers.

 

Congrats to those that are good without it, but beer and baseball is about as classic as an American combo as you can find (throw hotdogs in there too). I love having a couple beers and some peanuts while at the Yard. While it sucks to pay $12 for a 16oz Steady Eddie, I could live with it after the discount. Paying $16 really sucks and yes I know that's what the non members pay. 

 

This discount was one of the best perks of being a member imo, but hey, the billionaire needs to make more money so all good. 

[You Play to Win the Game]

I thought the T. Rowe Price atrocities on our new NASCAR uniforms accomplished that goal. But I guess he needs even more.

[BSLSteveBirrer]

Not a good look. Amazing to me how sports entities treat their fans with such low regard. Think we are a captured audience and we'll just bend over and take whatever they give us. I gave up my Boise State season tickets a few years back after some similar nonsense. To be a season ticket holder you had to be a member of the Bronco Athletic Assoc. Which essentially doubled the price of the tickets compared to just buying tickets for individual games. The selling point being you were ensured of getting tickets. Well since they rarely sell out that really meant nothing. But the last straw was the final thing. In our season ticket selection you could also get season parking pass. Sounded like a good thing. 6 home games for $80. And I was familiar with the location of the parking garage and it was very good. So I added that. Lo and behold got my season parking pass in the mail. First home game drove up to the garage. Thought there would be lower section reserved for season pass holders? Nope just find a spot with everybody else. But what really busted my chops was that parking by the game was only $10. The season pass was MORE. That did it for me.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Despite being someone who only watches from afar, it still sucks to see this. Like someone said earlier, the only thing the Angelos family ever consistently got right was keeping the price of attending the game within reason. I sure hope all this means we can look forward to seeing some extensions and a major expansion of the payroll here pretty quick, or I think new ownership has a lot to answer for.

[Pedro Cerrano]

I assume since it isn't listed it's gone.

I might be wrong here. But usually after signing up you get an email from MLB with a discount code to get it for free. I don’t think it was ever listed as a perk. Hope I’m right.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Not a good look. Amazing to me how sports entities treat their fans with such low regard. Think we are a captured audience and we'll just bend over and take whatever they give us. I gave up my Boise State season tickets a few years back after some similar nonsense. To be a season ticket holder you had to be a member of the Bronco Athletic Assoc. Which essentially doubled the price of the tickets compared to just buying tickets for individual games. The selling point being you were ensured of getting tickets. Well since they rarely sell out that really meant nothing. But the last straw was the final thing. In our season ticket selection you could also get season parking pass. Sounded like a good thing. 6 home games for $80. And I was familiar with the location of the parking garage and it was very good. So I added that. Lo and behold got my season parking pass in the mail. First home game drove up to the garage. Thought there would be lower section reserved for season pass holders? Nope just find a spot with everybody else. But what really busted my chops was that parking by the game was only $10. The season pass was MORE. That did it for me.

Maryland is the same way. You have to join the Terrapin Club for the right to buy tickets to a stadium that, literally, never sells out.

I almost considered it for hoops. But they make you buy all the crappy OOC games. I’d rather just buy the games I want to go to on the secondary market and park for like $10 off route 1.

Md does offer packages where you can buy a handful of games you want, but it’s still easier perusing Seat Geek. This will probably change if the team is ever a perennial contender again.

These teams do not care about you.

[Pedro Cerrano]

This cheap sake will ban food from coming in next. Watch. You’ll need to buy *his* $10 hot dog. Those vendors outside will be bitter.

[BSLSteveBirrer]

Maryland is the same way. You have to join the Terrapin Club for the right to buy tickets to a stadium that, literally, never sells out.

I almost considered it for hoops. But they make you buy all the crappy OOC games. I’d rather just buy the games I want to go to on the secondary market and park for like $10 off route 1.

Md does offer packages where you can buy a handful of games you want, but it’s still easier perusing Seat Geek. This will probably change if the team is ever a perennial contender again.

These teams do not care about you.

It's just mind boggling to me. The product exists ONLY because of fans. If they stop buying tickets or watching on TV the product dies. Now I get sports have been so ingrained in our everyday lives that it's hard to just shut it off. Still you think they'd at least pretend to care a little bit.

[russsnyder]

I have to think there has to be a ceiling.

I mean, $ 16 dollar beers are outrageous.

I guess the market will determine the ceiling one day.

[mdrunning]

Today is the 30th anniversary of the MLB players strike, which resulted in no postseason for the first time in 90 years. 

[BaltBird 24]

I'll pay more for a beer or two or a ticket if I get to watch Corbin Burnes instead of Jordan Lyles or Kyle Gibson.

We'll see how serious they are about investing in the team, but July was a start.

[mdrunning]

I'll pay more for a beer or two or a ticket if I get to watch Corbin Burnes instead of Jordan Lyles or Kyle Gibson.

We'll see how serious they are about investing in the team, but July was a start.

I've been lucky thus far this season in that I've caught two of Burnes' starts in games I've attended. One good, one not so good.

[BSLMikeLowe]

Sports teams were rolling in money thanks to RSNs and ESPN, etc., who kept jacking up cable prices to pay for it. Then too many people started cancelling cable because they were sick of spending so much money. So what was the solution? Get the streaming services in on the action. Now you have to have cable *and* a bunch of streaming services to see all your team’s games. Like needing AppleTV+ for the O’s and Netflix for the Ravens game on Christmas. It never ends.

[mweb08]

I'll pay more for a beer or two or a ticket if I get to watch Corbin Burnes instead of Jordan Lyles or Kyle Gibson.

We'll see how serious they are about investing in the team, but July was a start.

 

They should easily be able to afford a much higher payroll without treating their customers/fans/tax paying contributors poorly. 

[Pedro Cerrano]

I have to think there has to be a ceiling.

I mean, $ 16 dollar beers are outrageous.

I guess the market will determine the ceiling one day.

Beer/alcohol prices in a stadium are about as inelastic as it gets. People will pay

[russsnyder]

Beer/alcohol prices in a stadium are about as inelastic as it gets. People will pay

You're correct.

The captive audience will pay to drink.

I rarely drink anymore, but $ 16 is insane.

Not saying I wouldn't pay it.

I guess it's tough for me to wrap my head around this since I'm a fossil.

I remember being able to bring a plastic igloo full of beer to Memorial Stadium in the early eighties.

[ivanbalt]

It just seems bizarre to start jacking up prices this soon.  Attendance has been on the rise the past few seasons after the 100+ loss seasons.  The team is winning, but has no postseason success yet.  And most importantly, there's been no big increase in payroll.  Not to mention the giant bag of money the state is providing for stadium upgrades.  Rubenstein needs to remember this is a football town first these days.

 

I guess I shouldn't be surprised after the survey I took for the Orioles earlier in the season.  Seems the goal is to turn the stadium into a club and offer a variety of unnecessary add ons to squeeze out more money.