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  1. There are a few other factors that make an apples to apples comparison very difficult.

    Over the last couple of years, my wife and I have become partial to getting draft beer in the souvenir cups when at Citi for a game. Our kids love using the souvenir cups as tumblers at home, as they don’t clash horribly with the rather plain glasswear we use at the table for ourselves, but won’t shatter when one of the kids drops one.

    First off, this year’s souvenir cups hold about 2 ounces more than last year’s. This isn’t a guess. That’s what’s left over if I fill one of this year’s to the top, then pour into one of last year’s. I haven’t measured to see if these $12 beers went from 20 to 22 ounces, or from 22 to 24, but the value got better.

    As for the souvenir cup, I assume they cost the Mets in the neighborhood of a couple of cents over the disposable cups, but for a family like ours that actually uses them, there is real value to getting one of them. (Not $12 worth of value, but you could make a compelling argument that we get a buck or so of value out of them.)

    This Sunday, I ventured to a certain ballpark in the Bronx. (I can respect my wife’s Yankee fandom only because she actually kept rooting for them between 1982 and 1995. She’s not a bandwagon fan, but an actual fan, and she’s put up with spending a lot of time in Queens watching some pretty bad baseball over the last few years.) At Yankee Stadium, $12 gets you a 16 ounce cup of one of their higher end drafts (we were drinking Newcastle) in a disposable cup.

    The big advantage of Citi over the Bronx as far as beer goes is that in the Bronx you need to get out of your seat to get any beer other than BudMillerCoors. I would imagine that the Mets’ decision to have beer vendors selling Stella and Brooklyn in addition to pisswater greatly increases their beer sales in the seats, reducing the lines at the beer stands.

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