D-Rays Raise Ticket Prices In Some Areas Of Tropicana Field

D-Rays Raising Ticket Prices Throughout Tropicana

While prices for premium seats have not been released, prices in other areas of Tropicana Field “generally were raised” $1-7 for the Devil Rays’ ’05 season, according to Carter Gaddis of the TAMPA TRIBUNE. Upper deck tickets will cost $5 for 55 of 81 regular-season home games, but for 26 “prime” games, they will cost $16 between first and third bases and $10 beyond the bases. Last season, upper deck reserve tickets between first and third were $9 and upper deck seats beyond the bases were $6. Field box seats for ‘05 increased $5 to $85 for non-prime games and $4 to $99 for prime games. Prices for lower box seats went up $7 each to $35 for non-prime and to $45 for prime games. In the newly-combined diamond box area, tickets are $22 for non-prime games and $42 for prime games. Tickets for the diamond box last season were $35 in the infield and $27 in the outfield (TAMPA TRIBUNE, 1/8).

THEY DID WHAT? In St. Petersburg, John Romano writes of the increases, “I understand the price to view big-league events zipped past reasonable somewhere in the 1990s. The larger issue is the lack of perception. The inability to read the mood of the paying customers, and to understand their eagerness. Or lack thereof” (ST. PETE TIMES, 1/10).