Little blast from the past. What Single Game ticket prices were in 2010.
November 17, 2024
Little blast from the past. What Single Game ticket prices were in 2010.
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According to the BoC’s own inflation calculator, a $210 ticket in 2010 would cost only $289 this year and the $73 ticket would cost recently $100.
So that’s nice. This year was the first year in a long time that I couldn’t justify going to a single ballgame ☹️
For some context. From like 2007 until like 2013ish a friend and I split a 15 game “flex pack” of a pair of 500 level tickets.
We got section 519 front row aisle seats to ANY 15 games and it cost us like $240 TOTAL for two seats. So it was about $8 a ticket for front row seats in a decent section in the 500 section. It was a great deal.
Jays games were absurdly more affordable back then. I think by 2015 the same flex pack for the same seats was like $400 and I think by now to try and get the same seats for 15 games and same front row seats would cost like $1000 for sure. Maybe more.
Just wait until you see what I paid for my Toronto Star passes
I think it cost $25 to see the Jays in 94. Nose bleed section but the beer and popcorn guys were Johnny on the spot. Even better as I was only 14. They didn’t care.
200 level corner OF were such underrated/great value seats.
Used to make it a family tradition going to games every year (and at one point these condos didn’t exist and the nearby streets were just parking lots. Further from the stadium it was like $15 for just a 10 min walk down there).
From those seats, you can see the dugouts, the entire field from an elevated view, look into the bullpens, have a view of the jumbotron, still have a shot of getting a ball if you’re real lucky, and it cost $22 at the time of this pic, and even cheaper than that years before.
Going to a Friday game after school vs Cleveland or a Sunday afternoon vs Tampa because tickets were cheaper (back then, premium was only games vs certain teams, weekends weren’t premium because they were weekends, but weekends vs Tampa cost the same if not less than a weekday game vs a more notable team) it was fun. As a kid, who cares about the other team, I’m there for the Jays, didn’t matter if its Yankees or Rays facing them, so the fact that I could enjoy a weekend game vs Tampa in the middle of summer and tickets were affordable was nice.
I sat in the first row of the 500s on the first base line for Roy Halladay’s final home start as a Blue Jay. He pitched a complete game shutout. I saw it for $11 in loonies and toonies that I scraped together from around the house and brought to the ticket window 20 minutes before first pitch.
Endless growth capitalism is a disease.
Remember $2 Tuesdays?
Around this time as well, they used to have such a crazy/too good to be true promo.
Buy a $50+ gift card, get a free Jays item. It was usually something like a hat, tshirt or something else, but we’d always do that. Buy the gift card, get the free item, immediately use the gift card on tickets so its like you got an extra giveaway for buying tickets you were already gonna buy to begin with.
I also miss when Rogers used to give out tickets. Since my family had internet/cable with Rogers, every season seemingly after they bought the team they’d give you 1 game a season for 2 free tickets. I think it was 200 or 500 level, but free is free. Once 2010 or 2011 happened I think that died. Really after the 2012 offseason going to Jays games has never been the way it used to be once they saw the demand go up which led to prices being raised.
These were increases too, it was $9 for many years for a 500s level ticket
lol HSBC doesn’t exist anymore in Canada
Wow… I went to almost 20 Jays games last season as a fan from out of North America.. I wish it was like this still lol
I remember when $210 was super expensive for tickets. Now it barely gets you into the 100’s behind home plate.
Former seasons ticket holder here. Signed up in 1981 to sit 16 rows back dead centre behind home plate in section 19. I think it was something like 10 bucks a seat. Prices went up incrementally as you would expect and when we moved over to the Dome there was a bit of a bump but it wasn’t anything outrageous. Pretty much the same seats. Section 122, row 18 and again dead centre behind home plate. At some point after the two World Series championships the first 10 rows in front of us were designated to be bumped up dramatically and within a year or two we were gonna go from $30 or so till like 60 or 70. We had the option of paying the same price but being moved way out down the first or third baseline in the outfield or keeping our seats and paying the new going rate. It was at that point I said f’ck it I’ve seen enough baseball and I gave up the seats. No regrets.
I know it’s obviously better having a team that competes to at least make the playoffs but a small part of me misses the era where we had no chance at sniffing the playoffs and I went to like 40 games a summer because it was affordable.
Yup, I used to just grab 500 level seats for cheap at the game every so often
Back in the days when I was a student and would go to a Jays game because I had nothing else to do
Controversial take but that logo was our best logo, the logo of my youth. Vernon Wells, Aaron Hill, Adam Lind, Brandon Morrow, Casey Jansen… the team sucked but those players were fun to watch…
Now do milk
I memba. I was a university student and lived near the stadium. $36 for my section 135 L outfield. Sat there almost every game I went to. This past season was the first year I did not go to a game since 2008. I couldn’t justify the overpriced tickets and packed stadium, for a garbage product. I hate the stadium renos that pack people in without a seat. Can’t even walk around it’s so busy. I memba when the stadium was empty.
Nothing beat the $99 ballpark pass
I went the day before I think the David Price trade. Sat center outfield on the wall for 15 bucks. Next couple days that same ticket was going for 60.
Paid $90 for behind home plate seats for Opening Day when they signed Frank Thomas. I will likely never sit there again in my lifetime.
In 2008 I took my, now wife, to a game. I had a buy one get one coupon for tickets. Got 2 tickets 100 level foul line 2nd row for $20 total.
Things have changed.
Were they good in 2010?
Shortly before that, around 2008, they had a $2 weekday price for the 500 level
Half empty arena era went hard.
Ahhh yes, the $11 seats. I remember there well. $11 spent to get in, $50 on beer (after taking advantage of the Steam Whistle Tour of course).
It feels like an entire generation of fans are slowly being shutout of accessing Toronto sports these days. I haven’t even been able to take my kids to their first games, because the total cost is just too much to handle right now. Same goes for the Raptors (I never cared much for hockey).
My only saving grace is that I live in Hamilton, so I’m going to make it a point to attend some Hamilton Cardinals IBL games, since it’s super affordable and seems like a really great family event. At least we can watch the Jays on TV.
28 comments
According to the BoC’s own inflation calculator, a $210 ticket in 2010 would cost only $289 this year and the $73 ticket would cost recently $100.
So that’s nice. This year was the first year in a long time that I couldn’t justify going to a single ballgame ☹️
For some context. From like 2007 until like 2013ish a friend and I split a 15 game “flex pack” of a pair of 500 level tickets.
We got section 519 front row aisle seats to ANY 15 games and it cost us like $240 TOTAL for two seats. So it was about $8 a ticket for front row seats in a decent section in the 500 section. It was a great deal.
Jays games were absurdly more affordable back then. I think by 2015 the same flex pack for the same seats was like $400 and I think by now to try and get the same seats for 15 games and same front row seats would cost like $1000 for sure. Maybe more.
Just wait until you see what I paid for my Toronto Star passes
I think it cost $25 to see the Jays in 94. Nose bleed section but the beer and popcorn guys were Johnny on the spot. Even better as I was only 14. They didn’t care.
200 level corner OF were such underrated/great value seats.
Used to make it a family tradition going to games every year (and at one point these condos didn’t exist and the nearby streets were just parking lots. Further from the stadium it was like $15 for just a 10 min walk down there).
From those seats, you can see the dugouts, the entire field from an elevated view, look into the bullpens, have a view of the jumbotron, still have a shot of getting a ball if you’re real lucky, and it cost $22 at the time of this pic, and even cheaper than that years before.
Going to a Friday game after school vs Cleveland or a Sunday afternoon vs Tampa because tickets were cheaper (back then, premium was only games vs certain teams, weekends weren’t premium because they were weekends, but weekends vs Tampa cost the same if not less than a weekday game vs a more notable team) it was fun. As a kid, who cares about the other team, I’m there for the Jays, didn’t matter if its Yankees or Rays facing them, so the fact that I could enjoy a weekend game vs Tampa in the middle of summer and tickets were affordable was nice.
I sat in the first row of the 500s on the first base line for Roy Halladay’s final home start as a Blue Jay. He pitched a complete game shutout. I saw it for $11 in loonies and toonies that I scraped together from around the house and brought to the ticket window 20 minutes before first pitch.
Endless growth capitalism is a disease.
Remember $2 Tuesdays?
Around this time as well, they used to have such a crazy/too good to be true promo.
Buy a $50+ gift card, get a free Jays item. It was usually something like a hat, tshirt or something else, but we’d always do that. Buy the gift card, get the free item, immediately use the gift card on tickets so its like you got an extra giveaway for buying tickets you were already gonna buy to begin with.
I also miss when Rogers used to give out tickets. Since my family had internet/cable with Rogers, every season seemingly after they bought the team they’d give you 1 game a season for 2 free tickets. I think it was 200 or 500 level, but free is free. Once 2010 or 2011 happened I think that died. Really after the 2012 offseason going to Jays games has never been the way it used to be once they saw the demand go up which led to prices being raised.
These were increases too, it was $9 for many years for a 500s level ticket
lol HSBC doesn’t exist anymore in Canada
Wow… I went to almost 20 Jays games last season as a fan from out of North America.. I wish it was like this still lol
I remember when $210 was super expensive for tickets. Now it barely gets you into the 100’s behind home plate.
Former seasons ticket holder here. Signed up in 1981 to sit 16 rows back dead centre behind home plate in section 19. I think it was something like 10 bucks a seat. Prices went up incrementally as you would expect and when we moved over to the Dome there was a bit of a bump but it wasn’t anything outrageous. Pretty much the same seats. Section 122, row 18 and again dead centre behind home plate. At some point after the two World Series championships the first 10 rows in front of us were designated to be bumped up dramatically and within a year or two we were gonna go from $30 or so till like 60 or 70. We had the option of paying the same price but being moved way out down the first or third baseline in the outfield or keeping our seats and paying the new going rate. It was at that point I said f’ck it I’ve seen enough baseball and I gave up the seats. No regrets.
I know it’s obviously better having a team that competes to at least make the playoffs but a small part of me misses the era where we had no chance at sniffing the playoffs and I went to like 40 games a summer because it was affordable.
Yup, I used to just grab 500 level seats for cheap at the game every so often
Back in the days when I was a student and would go to a Jays game because I had nothing else to do
Controversial take but that logo was our best logo, the logo of my youth. Vernon Wells, Aaron Hill, Adam Lind, Brandon Morrow, Casey Jansen… the team sucked but those players were fun to watch…
Now do milk
I memba. I was a university student and lived near the stadium. $36 for my section 135 L outfield. Sat there almost every game I went to. This past season was the first year I did not go to a game since 2008. I couldn’t justify the overpriced tickets and packed stadium, for a garbage product. I hate the stadium renos that pack people in without a seat. Can’t even walk around it’s so busy. I memba when the stadium was empty.
Nothing beat the $99 ballpark pass
I went the day before I think the David Price trade. Sat center outfield on the wall for 15 bucks. Next couple days that same ticket was going for 60.
Paid $90 for behind home plate seats for Opening Day when they signed Frank Thomas. I will likely never sit there again in my lifetime.
In 2008 I took my, now wife, to a game. I had a buy one get one coupon for tickets. Got 2 tickets 100 level foul line 2nd row for $20 total.
Things have changed.
Were they good in 2010?
Shortly before that, around 2008, they had a $2 weekday price for the 500 level
Half empty arena era went hard.
Ahhh yes, the $11 seats. I remember there well. $11 spent to get in, $50 on beer (after taking advantage of the Steam Whistle Tour of course).
It feels like an entire generation of fans are slowly being shutout of accessing Toronto sports these days. I haven’t even been able to take my kids to their first games, because the total cost is just too much to handle right now. Same goes for the Raptors (I never cared much for hockey).
My only saving grace is that I live in Hamilton, so I’m going to make it a point to attend some Hamilton Cardinals IBL games, since it’s super affordable and seems like a really great family event. At least we can watch the Jays on TV.