The Rangers are offering around 2,000 seats at the new ballpark for $300 eachRANGERS
The MLB Rangers' new ticket price plan for Globe Life Field is being "slowly introduced to season ticket holders," and what they have seen has left them "disgusted and outraged," according to Mac Engel of the Ft. Worth STAR-TELEGRAM. The Rangers were "braced for this sort of reaction." When a team moves into a new ballpark, there is "always a price increase, and fan outrage over the new ticket plans, seat relocations, etc." Rangers fan Chuck Noteboom, a season-ticket holder since '93, was told by the team that his $60 tickets per game will "cost $200 each in the new place." Rangers Exec VP/Business Operations Rob Matwick said, "You have a feel for prices in our industry, and we talked to the clubs in our market. We talked to the Mavs and Stars. We have to be affordable for everybody." Engel notes the Rangers will "open a venue that seats 40,000 with a price tag of what is now" $1.2B, the same amount the 100,000-seat AT&T Stadium was built for. The Rangers are offering around 2,000 seats at the new ballpark for $300 each that include two parking passes per game, all the food and beverage and admission to the underground Homeplate Club suite, which Matwick said the club has "never been able to offer." Matwick: "We have heard from the fans in the high-dollar area. ... The idea of this seat is to, 'Leave your wallet at home.' This is not a universal seat" (Ft. Worth STAR-TELEGRAM, 2/15).
