John Fortuna, Jersey guy and baseball fan — the latter despite MLB’s urgings to cease and desist — last week was in Florida, where he decided to attend the Mets-Cards game.
He bought a ticket, $30 — spring training tickets, with fixed-income seniors in mind, not long ago cost $5, $10 max — and having arrived on the early side, he headed in to catch batting practice.
That’s when he was stopped. He hadn’t bought a ticket that included batting practice. Huh? Only for an extra $5 could he watch BP. For an added $25, the Cards have a special, on-field “Batting Practice Section.”
Again, what once would have been out of the question as a matter of common sense, common decency, good-faith business and time-certified tradition, had arrived. With MLB’s blessings, teams now charge extra to watch batting practice — before spring training games.
And shameless greed is spun with great pride. The Cards’ website boasts of charging to watch pregame batting practice as welcomed news for fans!
Disgraceful.
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