Beware the Dodger Dog.

How many people spend $25 on a restaurant meal, much less ballpark food?

Dodger Dogs are among the only hot dogs I've ever held a fondness for. For on the Left Coast, no one really knows how to make a good hot dog.

But add in another consideration to your equation, David. 2 Dodger Dogs and 2 beers, plus a bag of peanuts, will easily eat up that extra twenty-five buck advance deposit, and still leave me with room for a 2-foot long churro and a watermelon shaved ice.

Now if only I still lived that close to Chavez Ravine.

Hello,

I am a homosexual and I wonder why Christians don't accept us for who we are. Is there really evidence in the Bible that we are to be persecuted? Are we not children of God too?

Miguel

We screw baseball fans differently here. What to do about the cheap seats? Tear 'em out! In fact, tear down the entire House that Ruth Built and put up a brand-new suburbs-friendly Yankee McStadium with a new parking lot for all our Jersey fans, and 10,000 fewer seats so they can raise EVERYBODY's ticketprices! Of course, we're adding scads of pricey new corporate luxury boxes for all those underserved Yankee fans over at Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs & Co.

It was hard for the hoi polloi to get tickets to a Knicks game (back when we actually had a team), now we won't be able to get tickets to see the Yanks, either. Good news for the Brooklyn Cyclones, though.

Only in America...where conspicuous consumption reigns supreme.

My guess is that for the most part, the increase in the cost of baseball tickets can be explained by supply and demand. The fan population has increased faster than the number of teams (or, more accurately, the number of available seats), so ticket prices have gone up. Likewise for the huge salaries paid to star players.