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Red Sox Sticker Shock

Want to see the Boston Red Sox versus the Baltimore Orioles at Fort Lauderdale Stadium this spring? It’ll cost you at least four games, if you want to sit in box or reserved grandstand seats.

That’s right: Red Sox Nation is so huge and demand to see the team so high, the Orioles are requiring fans to purchase full spring season tickets (15 games) or a four-game package to get the best seats for the one Red Sox game in Fort Lauderdale this spring on March 7. Fans can choose the other three games to package with the Red Sox game, but they must all be in the same seating area and include only one New York Mets game.

The idea is to ensure the Orioles’ most loyal fans have the best shot of seeing the 2007 World Series champs from the stadium’s best seats.

“Clearly there’s a great demand for this specific game and the Orioles want to reward those fans who are coming to several games with access to tickets first,” Orioles Director of Communications Greg Bader said. “We believe this is the fairest way to distribute tickets to a game that clearly is the most in demand game of our spring season.”

The Orioles are also charging $2 extra for the Red Sox and Mets games. The Mets are charging significantly more when the Red Sox visit the Mets' spring home in Port St. Lucie.

Orioles' spring individual tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. and tickets to the lone Red Sox contest are expected to sell out within minutes. If any box or reserved grandstand seats are not claimed, they’ll be put on sale at a later date, Bader said.

Box seats cost $20 -- and $22 for contests against the Red Sox and Mets; reserved grandstand are $14 and $16 for the Red Sox and Mets; general admission are $10 and $12; and general admission kids (14 and under) are $5 and $7.

Meanwhile, the Mets are charging $35 up from $25 in premium box when the Red Sox come to Port St. Lucie; $30 up from $20 in field level terrace; $30 up from $18 in lower reserved; $25 up from $12 in upper reserved; and even the bleacher/berm are $10 up from $6.

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Baseball is getting as bad as football. In football you have to pay regular season prices for games that mean nothing, most of the time, the big ticket names don't play anyway. Same with Spring training. Just another way to make the fans bend over and grab their ankles.

Spring training and regular tickets are being priced pretty much the same. It will be a matter of time when local people will just not pay inflated prices for exhibition games. Most of spring training is out of town draw, so until people stop going to Florida or Arizona the price of spring training will continue on the upward spike....

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After a decade as a news reporter in New Jersey, Southern California, Chicago and South Broward, Talalay decided to trade in covering meetings about city government and schools for meetings about sports deals and stadium finance...
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