I took a walk around the Ballpark Neighborhood Saturday night. The Colorado Rockies have closed off the upper left and upper right field stands (the $12 seats) at Coors Field for every home game they play, unless they think it will be a sellout (and they never believe they will have a sellout). The daughter of a bookstore employee tried to take her adopted son to the game a few weeks ago. The only available seats were $50 each, so they turned around and went home. Of course, if the Rockies had not closed off those two areas of the stadium, they could have gone. When the Rockies were in the World Series a few years ago, tickets for the game were not offered at the stadium - only on the internet, where additional fees could be charged and no ticket-sellers needed to be hired. The team wound up - through design or incompetence I don't know - selling all of the tickets to scalpers, who resold them for hundreds and thousands of dollars. Is this simply out-and-out greed or good business sense?
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