OT: Paul Skenes Rookie Card Search

[Yoda]

What kind of game will Livy be hosting in her suite?

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by Yoda

What kind of game will Livy be hosting in her suite?

[z28jd]

One of the funniest things most people probably missed here by not being glued to Pirates Twitter for work purposes is the people doing the math on the cost of the tickets. Every single person I saw doing it, and there have been A LOT, is using current cost x 81 games x 30 years to figure it out. Anyone here ever go to a baseball game in 1994 and 2024, and they are paying the same prices? Not one person estimated a price hike in the ticket cost.

The funny thing is that the Pirates just said "behind home plate". There are numerous prices in that general area. So people were using all different prices to figure it out. I was getting a kick out of it because I was waiting for someone to say "hey, 2054 ticket prices won't be $40 for great seats. $40 won't get you into the stadium anywhere in 2054"

[Kutcher55]

Hard to believe an entire box gets you only 28 cards. I did a double take when I saw that. A rack pack yielded more back in the day. And they have the audacity to call it a “mega box.”

[John1941]

My question is whether you'd have the right to sell your "access to coveted seats behind home plate." If so, that's a pretty sweet deal. If not - you'd have to be a masochist to accept that deal.

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by z28jd

The funny thing is that the Pirates just said "behind home plate". There are numerous prices in that general area.

I have to admit the idea of season tickets for the next 30 years is an appealing carrot. However, as you pointed out, all the Pirates are saying is that the season tickets will be "behind home plate." They don't say anything about WHERE the seats will be located.

Are we talking front row in section 16 or 17 (full season price $23,636), which are the two sections directly behind the plate, or the last row in section 316 (full season price $1,482) which, although it's the very last row in the upper deck, is still in a section that's behind the plate?

If I pulled the card (I won't) and I was a Pirates fan (I think you all know I'm not) - I'd definitely want written assurances from the team about where the seats would be before making a decision. Depending on where the seats were, I might be better off selling the card, and buying my own season tickets.

[John1941]

Their use of "coveted" to describe the seats certainly smacks of big-dollar seats right behind home, but I agree it would be nice to get in writing something more specific than an adjective.

[butchie_t]

Anyone want to take bets that this card will be 'found' in a case break in the very near future?

Amazing how those things just seem to happen spontaneously. cough....


Butch Turner