Record prices for the Series? Not even close.
There will only be 11,500 fans on hand for every World Series game, including 950 in suites. Surprisingly, ticket prices aren’t even close to destroying records.
The average listing is $1,329 but that only makes it the sixth highest price in the past decade. The average when the Nats bopped the Astros last October was $1,936.
But get this. In 2016 it was $4,557 for the Cubs and the Indians and we’re talking average here folks. Who knows how much a starving Cubs fan paid for a box.
This time around a seat behind the plate goes for $3,549 but a pavilion ticket is a bargain at $1,527 unless it’s game 7 when it jumps to $3,278.
Back then $5.50 was a week’s pay.
The state of Texas allows 50 per cent capacity but MLB sliced that to 28 per cent. Tickets are sold in groups of four, called pods, which are separated by at least six feet. No seats within 20 feet of players. Masks are mandatory, except when eating or drinking, hand sanitizers everywhere, and bags only permitted for medical reasons or diapers. Diapers? At the World Series?
The brand new Arlington ball park took four years to erect and cost 1.2 billion. Only to run into a pandemic, a major frustration for owner Ray Davis.
“I feel like a 10-year-old boy coming down the stairs Christmas morning,” he says, “and they’ve got all of the presents wrapped up, and I can’t open one.”
Now he has the biggest baseball present of all. And he can tear the wrapping off at least four times.
Seniors abandoned and left alone to die
I’m watching something called Zoomer on Vision TV, which is unusual because that’s religion oriented and I’m as religious as a rock. I was clicking through to find the Cardinals and the Cowboys and I hit on this site by accident. A good accident.
They’re talking about old age and the abject loneliness of seniors in long care facilities. There are six women and one man on the panel and the guy is an Ontario politician. Which tells you a lot about compassion.
Isn’t this wonderful. Google pics and you’ll see endless shots of seniors so happy you’ll puke. Reality is a different story. You will be old in only a very few heartbeats. And old is not the end.
One woman says her family visits her mother as often as possible but this is as unusual as the moon taking a trip to Jupiter. She sees seniors totally abandoned and left alone to die. Her mother is actually pumped because she has someone who cares enough to visit.
If you survive long enough you’ll endure that torture.
Elephants and whales revere their dying family. What the hell is wrong with human beings?
Bravo Subaru
There is this great Subaru commercial they’ve resurrected. A family is camping. Their dog hops into their canoe and heads downstream like Magellan, the dude who kicked off the first round trip navigation of this planet.
The little girl, who obviously loves and cherishes her dog, yells to her mom and dad. They jump into their Subaru and take off. “There he is,” she says. Her father wades into the river and pulls the pup out of the canoe. The video is backwards with the canoe going in the wrong direction. But who cares?
Any ad with dogs and cats or any animals is all right with me. Bravo Subaru.
And the CEO of GoDaddy
On the other side is Bob Parsons, the CEO of GoDaddy, who posted a video of the elephant he slaughtered in Zimbabwe. He rationalized like a pro, claiming he was saving people from starvation, and there is a sliver of truth here.
But PETA rejected Parsons’ explanation. “If Bob Parsons really wanted to help African villagers he would use his money to promote one of the many effective, nonlethal methods available to protect crops — not act like a little boy with a gun.”
It’s a six inch putt, Bob. His tusks aren’t even loaded.
CEO Parsons has killed antelopes and buffalos for no apparent reason other than…killing an animal. And why post a video of your egomania?
If you have a dog or a cat please don’t invite CEO Parsons for dinner. Unless you’re sure he’s unarmed. And to hell with GoDaddy.
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