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...playoff tickets. Last year, a ticket for a Boston Red Sox American League Championship Series game sold for an average of $448 on StubHub.com, the leading secondary-market ticket site. This year, that average price dipped like the Dow: it was $244, a decline of about 50%. In the Tampa area, World Series tickets are going for under $200, the lowest price StubHub has seen in the five years it has tracked the secondary market. Several teams have already taken measures to draw fans in a struggling economy. The Kansas City Royals offered gas-card promotions when prices soared this...
...strong revenue growth that baseball, football and basketball have enjoyed throughout the decade is clearly in jeopardy. After baseball crowns either the Phillies or the Tampa Bay Rays as world champions this month, its offseason will test the resilience of the sports economy. Will ticket purchases for 2009 drop? And will free agents command the same salaries? Legends like Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez, the prime catch in the free-agent market, will always break the bank. But don't expect those left-handed middle relievers to score the same ludicrous contracts as in recent years. "Player salaries...
Major League Baseball executives must have been crying into their beers after the Red Sox and the Dodgers both failed to make the World Series. Instead of a marquee matchup featuring two of the most storied franchises in the game, baseball has the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies. That would be 2007's worst team in baseball vs. a franchise that recently lost its 10,000th game. The sound you hear is the country flipping the channel en masse to America's Next Top Model...
...legendarily awful clubs from economically hurting swing states, battling it out for the championship of a past-its-prime sport while the rest of us watch football highlights. Philadelphia--my city--hasn't won a championship of any kind for 25 years, a record for a four-sport town. Tampa Bay has a shorter history of woe, but this is a city (well, technically, a body of water) whose football team, the Buccaneers, lost the first 26 games of its existence. If history is any indicator, neither team will win: the Rays and the Phillies will be swept from...
...neither have fans from Tampa Bay or St. Petersburg. There’s probably 500, maybe 600 actual fans in Tampa. Like, real fans...