Bill Plaschke: Dodgers are testing the loyalty of fans with steep increases for season tickets even in the cheap seats
LOS ANGELES - The clock struck 11:25 p.m. Time was growing short. A lifetime of Dodgers love was being tested.
Bill Snoberger and fiancee Mary Jones were trying to figure out whether a 45 percent price increase over two years for two season tickets in the outer reaches of Dodger Stadium was worth it.
They sit in the top deck. It's the cheapest section in the building. It's steep and uncovered and so, so far away. Yet, this winter the Dodgers reached all the way up there and slugged them in the gut, the total cost of the tickets is now $2,649, or $820 more than two seasons ago, $505 more than last year.
This sort of increase usually hits the corporate types. Snoberger
