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Buying beer at a Giants game is sure to leave a whole in the wallet:That $8.75 you pay for a 20-ounce beer is more than any other team in baseballin America charges -- by a full 75 cents. The stadium serving the second most-expensive beer is the Tampa Bay Rays' Tropicana Field, charging "just" $8 for a 20-ounce beer. But that's a franchise that has to overcharge for beer, because they can't get anyone to pay admission and come to their games.But don't feel too bad, Giants fans. The worst beer value in baseball comes from the Boston Red Sox. While AT&T Park topped the most-expensive list, it is actually a far worse rip-off to buy beer at Boston's Fenway Park. Fenway Park came in third with a $7.25 beer -- but that $7.25 only buys you a 12-ounce beer. That's almost half as tiny as the beers you can get at a Giants game, and the same amount of beer you'd get in one measly can from a standard American six-pack.Talk about charging an arm an a leg...
3 Comments:
  • They have to charge more at the Trop since their fan base sucks, biggest front runners in the game. How do you expect them to pay MLB salaries with an average crowd attendance hovering around 20000 per game, they are a joke.
  • giantsrepeat,That's very true, they are the biggest front runners in the game.
  • Remember that ja*kass last season talking smack on here. He wore a blue fuzzy afro wig in his photo? That was the biggest A Hole Rays fan of them all. Boy did he disappear fast.
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