The bottom line is that minimum pricing isn't going to disappear, no matter how much fans complain.
It's difficult, dissuading amateurs from giving it a swing, and time-consuming, limiting how much fans can play.
Because the schedule is being reformulated, it is too early to gauge how much fans will be willing to spend for seats, ticket brokers say.
As an industry leader, with access to nearly limitless data, Ticketmaster can determine fairly precisely just how much fans are willing to pay for every kind of show.
Girardi added that he did not think that Rodriguez's continued quest was a distraction for the team, no matter how much fans may obsess over it.
But he dismissed inserts like autographs as gimmicks and said that Topps had underestimated how much fans, as opposed to investment-oriented collectors, cared about tradition.
The empty seats are a fresh sign that the teams might have miscalculated how much fans and corporations were willing to spend, particularly during a deep recession.
Imagine how much fans would pay for a private Google Hangout or tickets and a backstage pass to a One Direction concert.
This is the phenomenon that LeBron James clumsily, but perceptively, touched on in his remarks after Game 6 of the N.B.A. finals, when he said that no matter how much fans hated him, they'd have to go back to living their lives when the games were over, when the day was done.
