Ticket Talk

[rickh150]

Looks like ticket and parking prices went up a bit here, a bit there. Typical and expected.

The bigger thing that affects my ticket buying is that Loge Diamond Box has been excluded from discounts on Wisconsin Fridays and Kids/Srs days. This is in addition to the newly named Platinum seats getting excluded last year. A good Monday deal continues of $6 Terrace seats and $12 Loge Bleachers. I expect the nice Kwik Trip ticket deal to start up again in March.

Parking up a little too…..advanced parking up a buck to $19 (Day of game $27) for M-F, $21/$42 for weekends.  General is $14 Advanced(Day of game $17) for M-F, and $16/$22 for weekends.

 

[otion881]

Typical price hikes. Excluding Loge Diamond Box from discounts stings a bit, but those Monday deals are great.

[rickh150]

I miss the Arctic Tailgate….always a fun idea to get you thinking about baseball again.  Stinking cold usually, but they would give you brats, tshirts, coffee….a few Brewers alumni or tv crews would be on hand. And no On Deck either.

I think it is more than fair to say that Brewers PR has taken a sad downturn or nosedive in the last few off-seasons.   We fans have all kinds of team energy with no where to put it! For like five months! Dropping the ball, Brewers. It seems like such a missed opportunity for the team to sell tickets and squeeze a buck out of the fan too. Only memories of past winter Brewers activities….are there now with very little on the horizon apparently.  

Yet the Cubs make it work with a three day convention.  Throw up.

[Frisbee Slider]

11 hours ago, rickh150 said:

Yet the Cubs make it work with a three day convention.

In fairness, Cubs fans probably  out number Brewers fans 10 to 1 throughout the country. 

[gypcasino]

I see they're back to selling group tickets for the home opener this year. Hardly the marquee event it used to be. 

[rickh150]

6 hours ago, gypcasino said:

I see they're back to selling group tickets for the home opener this year. Hardly the marquee event it used to be. 

Years back the price for the home opener was the same as the price for every other game……including the 2nd home game of the year, a Tuesday night in April.  That cannot be overstated why the popularity of the game has drastically gone down with empties everywhere.  It used to be a value buy, not anymore…just the opposite.  It’s less and less of a value yearly as prices go up in and out of the stadium.  

[Frisbee Slider]

4 hours ago, rickh150 said:

Years back the price for the home opener was the same as the price for every other game……including the 2nd home game of the year, a Tuesday night in April.

Doesn’t that seem like a mistake from a pricing perspective?

[hawing]

On 2/16/2025 at 8:46 PM, rickh150 said:

I think it is more than fair to say that Brewers PR has taken a sad downturn or nosedive in the last few off-seasons.   We fans have all kinds of team energy with no where to put it! For like five months! Dropping the ball, Brewers. It seems like such a missed opportunity for the team to sell tickets and squeeze a buck out of the fan too. Only memories of past winter Brewers activities….are there now with very little on the horizon apparently.  

PR/social media interaction with the fan base has been just about nonexistent since Caitlin Moyer was let go.  I hope the Brewers made the most of whatever savings they got from that personnel decision. 🤨

[TURBO]

Ticket prices, parking prices, concessions prices, the 1.5 hour drive hassle and gas prices, etc had me NOT going to a Brewers game in person last season for the first time since I was a little kid.

They priced me out when I went to purchase my favorite tickets last season, which cost $50 each in 2023, and got jacked up to $80 each for 2024.  That was what it took for me to give the Brewers a giant "screw you, I'm just not going to go to a game this year."

I got by just fine tuning into probably 95% of the games on TV.  

I do plan to go to a game this year with friends. but that will probably be the extent of my live game viewing experience this season.

 

[wallus]

All in all, you can find cheap tickets to get into AM Fam. If you are picky on date and location? Then you'll have to pay more

[kestrel79]

Overall Brewers baseball is still probably one of the best values for tickets in all of US pro sports. If you go mid week you can find deals and promotions. Compared to Bucks and Packers it's so cheap. 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Every time this comes up, I find most of the complaints so weird. The price of stuff goes up with time, but even so, if you really want to go to a Brewers game, it's not expensive relative to just about any other ticketed event at a professional level. It's cheaper than any other sport, Disney on Ice, a show at the Pabst.

If it is not a marquee game, I would never buy direct from the Brewers anyway if there is not some promotion (which they do a LOT of) . With minimal effort you can still attend some of these games for $10-15. Then there is the fact you can bring in food, but we get food price complaints (the food in the stadium is pretty damn bad anyway and continues to be a major ball-drop from the team IMO) and we still have complaints about paying for parking when you can very easily park for free and walk 15-20 minutes in, for a summer sport where the weather is usually nice, or take one of the bar shuttles for the price of one Miller Lite. I think the last time I went was last year around Father's Day where they had a 4-pack for $64 that included a soda and a hot dog, and it was a Saturday or Sunday. You're not getting that with any other pro team.

All that said, I stopped going. I dropped my SSH and I never go unless invited for some group thing going on there, but it was more circumstantial. Just too many kids activities, and the driving always sucks. I only really had them for the playoff priority and with the playoffs as watered down as they are, that's not worth it either.

[KeithStone53151]

I don't really see any issue with the ticket costs. As others have noted, it's significantly lower on average than other major sports. Concessions and parking costs are a bit wild to me, but as noted those can be resolved very cheaply for most people with a small amount of planning.

I personally dropped my 20 pack this year, primarily due to the lack of value in resale. I had been going to roughly half the games and selling half. The amount I'm able to get has remained constant over the years, while prices keep going up a couple bucks every year. My seats would have been $52/ticket this year and probably only can get $40/ticket in resale. My plan is to take advantage of the discount days and try buying at the last minute on resale markets to take advantage of the panic selling.

[Playing Catch]

2 hours ago, kestrel79 said:

Overall Brewers baseball is still probably one of the best values for tickets in all of US pro sports. If you go mid week you can find deals and promotions. Compared to Bucks and Packers it's so cheap. 

This may be factual, and as OldSchoolSnapper acknowledges, prices go up over time. However, there is also truth that sporting events have outpriced many fans well beyond the rate of inflation (over the last 30 years).

I can acknowledge that demand for consuming sports has skyrocketed in my lifetime, and not blame MLB for making money off of this demand, and at the same time lament that once upon a time, one could afford to take in four or five games a season, now they are fortunate to get to one or two.

It's like discussions of rent control. Many of us appreciate capitalism AND appreciate the challenges of a fixed income.

[KeithStone53151]

49 minutes ago, Playing Catch said:

This may be factual, and as OldSchoolSnapper acknowledges, prices go up over time. However, there is also truth that sporting events have outpriced many fans well beyond the rate of inflation (over the last 30 years).

I can acknowledge that demand for consuming sports has skyrocketed in my lifetime, and not blame MLB for making money off of this demand, and at the same time lament that once upon a time, one could afford to take in four or five games a season, now they are fortunate to get to one or two.

It's like discussions of rent control. Many of us appreciate capitalism AND appreciate the challenges of a fixed income.

I think you make good points here, I have wondered if the high price of sports tickets prices in general among other things has turned people off of sports(tv rights as well). Younger people generally seem less interested in sports in my experience...especially baseball. I'm sure this has been studied. I wonder if sports in general are peaking right now and if a potential downward trajectory is coming for their revenues.

[rickh150]

Prices will usually trend up. Yet the prices have gone up much more over the last two or three years, in my experience.  Even the “deals” of WI First Fridays and Srs/Kids days have been jacked up so much it isn’t much of a deal at the half price for decent seats.  

The Loge Diamond Box and Platinum levels have now been excluded from discount promotions, as well.  The LDB Family Section, which is alcohol free, has tickets on average of well over $50.  I don’t see many families there for obvious reasons, but go ahead and call it that.  

And those wonderful cheap tickets others mention are often Terrace level where I really have no desire to go.

I think it is fair to complain a bit when price is keeping people home more now than before AND when so many empties are seen in quality seating sections. Like mentioned at the top, I do like a few of the deals but they aren’t nearly what they used to be from say 2007-2018.

[rickh150]

On 2/17/2025 at 9:16 PM, Frisbee Slider said:

Doesn’t that seem like a mistake from a pricing perspective?

That was normal from 1970-2016ish.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Everything is outpricing normal incomes.

Covid also has continued to have an effect. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. People got used to living without live entertainment. It takes a long time to get them back to where they were. Some went right back, some won't ever, some will take a long time. It hasn't been a great economic blend of things.

[rickh150]

8 hours ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Everything is outpricing normal incomes.

Covid also has continued to have an effect. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. People got used to living without live entertainment. It takes a long time to get them back to where they were. Some went right back, some won't ever, some will take a long time. It hasn't been a great economic blend of things.

If it’s about the bottom line, bringing in the most money, the Brewers are losing money with me. If I cannot get Loge Diamond Box/Platinumm seats at a discount for any game, I will be buying lesser seats at a much lower price. And I will be going less, as well.

Just look around at games at how many empties there are in expensive areas.  It is quite remarkable…and I agree with your take…much different in the post Covid times. 
 

[TURBO]

It's really quite simple.

The Brewers have priced me out.

That is just a fact. 

If I lived an hour closer, I may still attend a few games, but living in the T-Rats back yard, I get just as much satisfaction attending those games as Brewers games, so it's an easier and much cheaper option.

 

[BrewersSuperCollector]

I stopped getting season tickets probably 7-8 years ago. I had the you pick 'em package and it was the first year the Brewers changed the picking of games into tiers. I could only make weekend games, and my choices were limited to start with a 20 pack with only 13 weekend choices. 

My children were getting into basketball, travelling basketball at that. basketball ended up 10 months a year as they got older.

The final nail in the coffin for me was getting rid of On Deck. I enjoyed that almost as much as I enjoyed playoff Brewers games. 

I've been to maybe a game a year or a game every couple of years. Whenever it's a group outing. I spend what would have been my Brewers money by going to Spring Training twice, and other vacation trips. I haven't missed going to Miller Park. 

[rickh150]

A typical May or September Tuesday game with some sort of reduced pricing in the LoGe/Field OF….people packed in there. Looks ridiculous with so many better seats empty…

[MillerParkSouth]

Has anyone tried to buy a Sunday funday bundle? It’s still being advertised as $65 for 4 but the cheapest seat options are $20 a ticket so it comes out to over $80.

[gypcasino]

two EPIC postgame concerts just announced! 

https://www.mlb.com/brewers/tickets/concerts?partnerId=it-20250310-12770579-mil-1-A&utm_id=it-20250310-12770579-mil-1-A

[bigred]

On 2/18/2025 at 2:36 PM, TURBO said:

Ticket prices, parking prices, concessions prices, the 1.5 hour drive hassle and gas prices, etc had me NOT going to a Brewers game in person last season for the first time since I was a little kid.

They priced me out when I went to purchase my favorite tickets last season, which cost $50 each in 2023, and got jacked up to $80 each for 2024.  That was what it took for me to give the Brewers a giant "screw you, I'm just not going to go to a game this year."

I got by just fine tuning into probably 95% of the games on TV.  

I do plan to go to a game this year with friends. but that will probably be the extent of my live game viewing experience this season.

 

Agreed. I haven't went to a game for 3 years now, for the same reasons. I'd rather just watch games on TV now. The only way I'll go to a game now, most likely, is if I win tickets, or am given tickets by friends or family.