Saw a report today that the average price of a ticket to the world series this year is $1,700. That's average. If you're a little strapped, you can get a standing room only ticket for a bargain price of only $800.

Call me out of touch but isn't $1700 to watch a baseball game a bit ludicrous? I can only imagine what a box seat costs. Or a luxury suite, holy cow.

The cost of attending sports has gone wild along with player compensation.

You can't pay the players millions of dollars each year without taxing the fans at the stadium.

Recently I was talking with one of my boyhood friends. We saw Mets games together at the Polo Grounds and later at Shea. Ticket prices were low and we could do jobs around the neighborhood to make enough cash to go to games. We typically bought reserved seats in the PG. As I recall they were $2.85. Box seats were $3.65 and if you liked baking in the sun, bleacher seats were a whooping $.75. Players back in the 50s and 60s didn't make tremendously high salaries and fans could go to the stadium, enjoy the game, and not feel like that had been physically assaulted and robbed at gunpoint.

Times have changed.

World Series tickets come at a premium as do football tickets during the year and are outrageous during the playoffs and SB. I'm thankful for good TV coverage which has allowed me to continue following my favorite sports teams. Attending games is not in my fiscal budget.

Its all on the owners of every team. They are the ones who raised the salaries of the players.

Then the poor fans have to pay for it.

I guess the fact that even with these prices the stadium is packed is a sign to the owners that their pricing is OK. Just a shame that the average middle class fan can't afford to go to sporting events live and most big game tickets are bought by companies.

On a side note I heard the Miami Marlins hired Don Mattingly as their new Head Coach.