A few weeks ago, my wife and I decided to see a Padres baseball game in the “new” stadium that our tax dollars helped fund. While I was skeptical at first that the location of the stadium downtown was a good idea, I was pleasantly surprised to find that a downtown location makes the stadium convenient and isn’t the traffic nightmare that many had suspected. It amazes me that after paying to get into the stadium, we were bombarded by advertisements all over the stadium; on every part of the scoreboard from fixed signs to electronic signs, to sponsorships of this and that (including a sponsorship for each strike out), and of course, to the name of the stadium, Petco Park.
If I’m subjected to so much advertising, the least they could do is lower the ticket prices as I felt like we weren’t going to a ballgame, but to an advertising event. I’m sure some would argue that the ticket prices are lower because of all the advertising, but I think the advertising has gotten a bit out of hand.