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March 12, 2010
Cubs drop AZ ticket tax, launch Wrigley seat auction
The Chicago Cubs have bowed to opposition from the entire rest of Major League Baseball and abandoned their plan for a ticket tax on all Arizona spring training games to help fund the new spring training stadium they're demanding as a condition of not moving to Florida. Instead, the team now says, it would happy to stick with just a $1 tax surcharge on rental cars in Maricopa County, something that's drawn less opposition.
Maybe the Cubs should consider using one of their own novel revenue-generating approaches, such as auctioning off front-row seats to the highest bidder, which they're now doing at Wrigley Field for the third straight year. Though since that would come out of their own pocket, not out of the pockets of Arizona tourists, I'm guessing not.
