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Major League Baseball is not immune to the downturn in the economy, especially the teams with new stadiums to pay for such as the New York Mets and New York Yankees. The New York Times recently reported about the problems season ticket holders are having this year getting rid of their extra games that in the past were a “no brainer”.

Of course both of these teams are playing in new ballparks, the Mets at Citi Field and the Yankees at the New Yankee Stadium, and the prices have been jacked up to pay for the new stadiums so the profit margin has shrunk dramatically, even without the recession.

Most of the other teams are struggling as well. The Tampa Bay Rays hosted the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies last week and Tropicana Field was only half full according to the website Philly.com. And you can look at ticket prices for most of the other teams in the secondary market and get baseball tickets for less than face value for many of the games.

So if your looking to get out to a ballgame and you want to get the best price and seat location, check out our selection of MLB Baseball tickets, you’re sure to find a game worth going to!

Too many shows asking for too much money. The Jonas Brothers are on tour but the sales are not what would be expected and some concerts are not selling out. The resale market is way down also and there are bargains to be had from ticket brokers such as Preferred Seating Tickets. The high face value of the tickets combined with a poor economy has driven prices for the Jonas Brothers down below face value, in some cases up to 50% off. So if you’re looking for a bargain and a great live show, check out the Jonas Brothers while they’re cheap!

Some of the cities where the deep discounts are include:
Jonas Brothers at the Target Center
Jonas Brothers at the Bradley Center
Jonas Brothers at the Allstate Arena
Jonas Brothers at the Verizon Center
Jonas Brothers at Izod Center
Jonas Brothers at TD Banknorth
Jonas Brothers at Nassau Coliseum
Jonas Brothers at Wachovia Center
Jonas Brothers at HP Pavilion
Jonas Brothers at Arco Arena
Jonas Brothers at Staples Center

Find all of the Jonas Brothers Tickets and tour dates.

There’s a group trying to keep the San Francisco 49ers in San Francisco rather than moving down to Santa Clara where they are waiting on a vote to approve funds to build a new stadium for the 49ers.

Their “Call to Action” can be found on the blog Ninernoise.com and they have all the contact information you need to reach the 49ers, Mayor Newsome, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Santa Clara city officials although I don’t know why they were included.

So if you are in the San Francisco bay area and keeping the San Francisco 49ers in your city is important than you may want to get involved also, because it is far from a done deal at this time and it’s hard to believe a city with all the large corporations in SF cannot come up with the private financing to build the new stadium the 49ers need.

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Paul McCartney has been adding a few more concerts in North America but is not planning a full tour of the states, so you’re very lucky if he’s coming to one of a few choice cities. The first concert for Paul McCartney will be at the Halifax Common with all of the floor seating as general admission and the bleachers reserved seating. The next shows will be a three night stand at Citi Field in New York on July 17, 18 and the 21st. Citi Field is the brand new home of the New York Mets and three show will bring a lot of McCartney fans to the New York area. The last of the scheduled shows is for the FedEx Field in Landover, Md on August 1st. This is another large stadium, the home of the Washington Redskins, but it was Washington Coliseum that the Beatles played their first concert in the United States.

We can only hope that Paul McCartney will continue to add more concert dates but if your looking for tickets, we have the best Paul McCartney tickets on sale now!

Bruce Springsteen it turns out withholds hundreds of tickets for his concerts, as do most artists apparently, but in his case the BOSS ACT was brought forth because of his complaining that ticket scalping was keeping the best seats out of the hands of fans at exhorbitant prices.

Yet as reported in the Wall Street Journal Blog, “Now comes word, courtesy of an Open Public Records Act request from the Newark Star-Ledger, that the biggest reason fans couldn’t find good seats had nothing to do with Ticketmaster, TicketsNow, or scalpers.
In reality, almost none were ever actually, y’know, on sale. Instead, 90% of the best seats were reserved for friends and family of the band, venue employees, record-label executives and their guests.”.

And NJ.com reported “But an examination of ticket sale data from the May 21 concert shows Springsteen himself may be part of the problem. The best seats in the house that night were the 1,126 seats in the four sections closest to the stage, but only 108 of those tickets were ever for sale to the public, according to new ticket data obtained through the Open Public Records Act.”

Now I may not be an expert in this, but I’ve seen a lot of “comp” (free) tickets in my 22 years as one of the owners of Preferred Seating Tickets and all of these were from friends, family, employees, radio station, etc who were given the prime tickets, for free, but that’s not what they sold them to us for. And I would assume that when an artist such as Bruce Springsteen prepares to go on tour and determine the face value of the tickets for the tour, that they must take into account the 1200 tickets given to these friends, family, employees, etc because they will get no revenue from them and someone else must cover that cost. So my question is, are ticket prices adjusted higher to make up for the 1200 tickets given to friends, family, etc so they may have the pleasure of sitting up front, and those fans that helped pay for those “comp” (free) prime up front seats, can watch from the rear of the concert venue or stand on the floor the entire show?

For the record I’ve been a big fan of Bruce Springsteen since the early 70’s. I have ticket stubs from the Born in the USA tour signed by the now deceased promoter Bill Graham, who had an equal hatred of scalpers or ticket resellers, but who I still admired and respected for his work, just as I do for Bruce Springsteen. But like most people who complain about the ticket resell business and ticket brokers, they have hidden profit motives or interests that they fail to disclose.