New York Mets World Series Tickets Rise to Over $5,800

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The New York Mets are not even in the World Series. First, they have to make it by the Chicago Cubs, who beat the Mets in all seven of the regular season games the teams played against one another. Even with a hard series that could go to seven games, Met’s tickets for the World Series are already $1,700.

The Mets face a tall order, but that has not stopped team management from bragging. According to The New York Times, General Manager Sandy Alderson says his team is different now, compared to when it faced the Cubs earlier in the season, packed with more experienced pitchers and power hitters. And, as New York is the largest city in the country, the pool of people who want tickets is huge.

Tiqiq, a site that allows sports fans to bid on tickets in the secondary market, has Met tickets priced as high as $5,871 per seat against an imaginary team called TBD. The price is for the series game that would be paid on October 31. Two tickets are available at this price for Section 114, near the field and between home base and first base. The two tickets on the block would cost $11,742 for the game. Of course, there is the price of food, beer and maybe parking on top of that.

The market for tickets is elastic. Some Mets ticket prices for the same game are as low as $880. These seats are almost as far from the field as possible, well into the upper deck and distant from any base paths.

As an example of how high these World Series tickets are, a season ticket to Mets games costs as little as $362 for a single seat well into the upper stands. The best season tickets, behind home base, are $7,102.

For the time being, before the Mets take the field against the Cubs, ticket prices are near $5,800. Imagine if the Mets take the first two or three games in the upcoming series against the Cubs. It would be no surprise if the top ticket prices surged above $10,000.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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