Mets-Royals tickets, especially at Citi Field, are mighty expensive
The first and second games, hosted at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., are now selling at $697 and $745, respectively. The same concessions for a family of four would cost about $53.
The Royals list postseason ticket face values from $185 to $452, but tickets quickly sold out once the team qualified for the World Series.
The Mets now trail the Royals in the series 1-0.
New York lawmakers struck a deal in 2005 to rescind the state’s anti-scalping laws, and instituted a price cap prohibiting the reselling of tickets at more than 45 percent of their face value.
There’s even more excitement in store for Game 3 of the World Series. Joel did the anthem at Game 2 of the 1986 World Series, which the Red Sox won 9-3, and at Game 1 of the 2000 World Series in the Bronx, won 4-3 by the Yankees.
It is important to remember that often, but not always, prices on the secondary market drop significantly on game day. Well, you could just buy tickets in the left-center field standing room only section for $800,000 each, too, according to StubHub.
The Cuomo campaign had previously declined to provide details about how it came to get its hands on the sought-after tickets to give to donors, other than to say the campaign bought the tickets directly from the Mets organization.