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They are also offering the holiday 5 pack.  110 gets you opening day, 4 vouchers for upper box tickets in april and may, and a ticket to fanfest (not sure that it's the early entry ticket or not).

don't know who goes to fanfest, but it's really fun!  I love the giveaway room!

Sad about Reynolds going to the Indians, but I realize the O's didn't want to pay him the 11 million.

they also switched to tickets.com for ticket sales because of the ticketmaster crap.

Reynolds only got $6M plus incentives from Cleveland.  The Orioles probably could've had him for that, but obviously didn't want him.  Too many strikeouts, I guess.  He played a solid 1B though.

He did.  I know all my fellow O's fans are sad that he's gone.

Shemp wrote:
Reynolds only got $6M plus incentives from Cleveland.  The Orioles probably could've had him for that, but obviously didn't want him.  Too many strikeouts, I guess.  He played a solid 1B though.

Mark Reynolds has to be the worst regular  player I have seen in an Orioles uniform.  He has been replacement level player according to the stats last 3 years.  So if you believe that he is just worth league minimum.  I think his awful defense and high strike outs and the  fact that he sucked for all but 3 weeks last year that is he is much worse than a replacement level player. 

K8teebug wrote:
They are also offering the holiday 5 pack.  110 gets you opening day, 4 vouchers for upper box tickets in april and may, and a ticket to fanfest (not sure that it's the early entry ticket or not).

don't know who goes to fanfest, but it's really fun!  I love the giveaway room!

Sad about Reynolds going to the Indians, but I realize the O's didn't want to pay him the 11 million.

I would go for this but I don't want to sit in the upper deck for the other games.  They should offer other ticket options for the vouchers.  Maybe pay a little more and get lower boxes for non-opening day games.  I most likely will get 13 game pack.  Last year I was able to get Standing Room only tickets for opening day off ticketmaster and just found some empty seats and sat in them all game. 

I don't care where I sit.  I just love going there!

vansmack wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
Well if a team loses a top player this year they only get one pick as opposed to two in previous years.  And I think they have to offer the player 13.5 million to even get the one pick.  So some of the suckier teams could end up with nothing for their player.  So if he is a pending free agent that they have no desire to sign there is no reason to not trade him.

There's always risks/rewards on both sides, but with the Wild Card teams only guaranteed one game from here on out, and not necessarily a home game, I still think the risk is greater for the team that's trying to pick up the guy in the last few months of his contract this season.

We're certainly not going to see the top prospect type deal like we did last season (say, Zach Wheeler for Carlos Beltran) if the team that nabs the star player doesn't get the supplemental pick to replace the talent lost.  It's just no longer worth it.

Buster Olney wrote a great article about how this is playing out this off-season (I'd link but it's behind a paywall and too long to copy and paste).  There is no coincidence that some mid-level talent, but not great players, are stuck in limbo at the moment because of this new rule.  Give up a draft pick for Greinke or Hamilton?  Sure.  But Rafael Soriano, Swisher, LaRoche, Lohse, Bourn?  Maybe not.

The real winners?  Those that were traded midseason or not given a qualifying offer: Napoli, Dempster, Anibal Sanchez, Victorino…no draft pick is attached to them.  And, no coincidence they've all signed.

It might also explain why LaRoche has sat for weeks on his 2-year offer from the Nats and why the O's haven't countered with more - that's a valuable draft pick.

Interesting article today in the sun about how the orioles seem to always hit the dollar store.

K8teebug wrote:
Interesting article today in the sun about how the orioles seem to always hit the dollar store.

I really wish they didn't charge for their online content. 

Shemp wrote:
I really wish they didn't charge for their online content. 

Are the Orioles getting left behind in the AL East?
While Toronto, Boston have gone on spending sprees, Duquette stays patient

 
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Peter Schmuck
5:56 p.m. EST, December 18, 2012

If this is December, then there are a lot of Orioles fans who are wondering the same thing.

Why is it that every year at this time, the other American League East teams do their holiday shopping at Lord &Taylor and the Orioles seem to do most of theirs at the dollar store?

It's a fair question, considering that the Toronto Blue Jays are on a spending spree of such magnitude that it might impact the currency exchange rate between the United States and Canada, and the Boston Red Sox are buying up average players for $13 million apiece per season.

Even the Tampa Bay Rays have pulled off a major deal, trading starting pitcher James Shields to upgrade their soft offensive attack, which is why you're probably getting the gnawing feeling that if the Orioles don't do something significant soon, they may get left behind.

The Orioles went to the Winter Meetings and came back with left-hander T.J. McFarland, who they picked up in the Rule 5 draft, which is the Major League Baseball equivalent of a swap meet. Their other outside acquisitions this winter have all been low-profile guys who could end up on next season's Baltimore-Norfolk taxi squad.

Now, there are all sorts of possible explanations for the way the Orioles have gone about this offseason, from the cynical fan favorite ? they're still cheap and indecisive ? to the happier conclusion that this is pretty much the way baseball operations guru Dan Duquette did business a year ago and things turned out pretty well.

The acquisition of another young candidate for the major league rotation will make perfect sense if the Orioles end up using one or two of their other young arms to pull off a significant deal for a middle-of-the-order hitter … or if they were just looking to have a third player on their roster with catchy initials instead of a first name.

The hesitation to throw a big three-year contract at free-agent first baseman Adam LaRoche can be explained away by real budget considerations during an offseason the O's entered with the most arbitration-eligible players in either league. LaRoche also would cost them their first-round pick in next year's draft, which is no small thing for a team bent on building a broad foundation of young talent for the long run.

That's all logical enough, but the Orioles would be foolish to think the world is going to stand still while they wait for the next growth spurt from their newest wave of minor league prospects. If they want to double-down on last year's success and keep the attendance and television ratings on the upswing, it's going to take more than reclamation projects like Trayvon Robinson and Conor Jackson to keep stay near the top of the AL East.

Remember, the Orioles ran up a statistically improbable string of 16 straight extra-inning victories and had the best record in major league history in one-run games. That's a tribute to their toughness, chemistry and terrific manager, but the odds of both those things happening again next season aren't much better than that Powerball ticket you've got stuffed behind the Oriole-themed credit card in your wallet.

Duquette has been saying all along that he is trying to acquire a legitimate power bat and you can't count him out with seven weeks still remaining until the opening of training camps. He did his best work last year ? signing Taiwanese pitcher Wei-Yin Chen and acquiring starter Jason Hammel ? in January and early February.

The flavor of this month is LaRoche, who is insisting on a big three-year deal and probably will end up back with the Nationals anyway. The Orioles are believed to be interested, but reluctant to give up the 24th overall pick in the draft next June and probably a bit concerned about his age (33) and durability a year after playing just 43 games in 2011.

If Duquette has something good up his sleeve, those are all good reasons to stand down with LaRoche, but he looks like a near-perfect fit at first base and the kind of bat the O's need to protect Adam Jones and Matt Wieters in the lineup.

Do you give up a late first-round pick and a bunch of money for that?

If you don't want to get left behind, you just might.

Read more from columnist Peter Schmuck on his blog, "The Schmuck Stops Here" at baltimoresun.com/schmuckblog and listen when he co-hosts "The Week in Review" at noon Fridays on WBAL (1090 AM) and at wbal.com.

the one thing i like about the orioles are tickets are cheap.  and haven't been raised in 5 years. you can get a 5 buck ticket on friday night and move down to the lower box seats after the first inning.  If they start signing all sorts of big free agents they will start charing a lot more for tickets.  And there is no gurantee they will be any better.  Larouche provided nothing in 2011.  That could happen again.

I am always amazed when people complain about how much it costs to go to Camden Yards.  You can get a 10 dollar ticket, take in all your own food and non-alcoholic beverages, and park for 8 bucks (or take the light rail).  I didn't realize how cheap they were until I started going to other stadiums.

Is it spring training yet?

Anyone going to fanfest?  I will be there!

why would anyone complain about cost of going to camden yards.. its a great value for sure..

my friend has a season ticket package for a while and i used to get to go somewhat regularly.. but he gave it up..they were great seats too..about 15-20 rows behind home plate.. i mean straight line behind catcher..

The tickets I get for free a few times a season are 11 rows behind home plate.  So spoiled!

I would also like to add that you can sit there for about 55/60 a ticket regular price.  Most stadiums, those seats start at 250.

K8teebug wrote:
I would also like to add that you can sit there for about 55/60 a ticket regular price.  Most stadiums, those seats start at 250.

exactly right..

The average price of a ticket for a Red Sox home game is $151.10, according to Chris Matcovich at ticket aggregator TiqIQ.com. The company both collects and analyzes data about tickets being sold on the secondary market, where you?ll find the most opportunities to get a ticket for an in-demand game as well as see where people are dumping tickets below face value.


After the Red Sox, the teams starting the 2012 baseball season with the highest average home ticket prices are the Chicago Cubs ($108.70), the Philadelphia Phillies, ($100.71), the New York Yankees ($90.21) and the Washington Nationals ($88.24). On the flipside, you can score the cheapest tickets (all about $50 on average ? meaning there are plenty of cheaper seats) if you go to home games of the Milwaukee Brewers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds.



Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/04/04/average-ticket-prices-spike-for-baseballs-top-teams/#ixzz2FckHsXX9

I rarely have to buy baseball tickets because, yes, I'm that charming and people enjoy my company at baseball games, but when I am forced to buy tickets I have perfected the StubHub game and buy plenty of seats being dumped in the last 3-4 hours before game time.

K8teebug wrote:
I would also like to add that you can sit there for about 55/60 a ticket regular price.  Most stadiums, those seats start at 250.

they are 48 dollars if you get a season ticket plan.. Including the 13 game plan.