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By Jeremy Kahn

After witnessing the postponment of the Spring Training finale between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, I began to think about the fans.

It was announced by A’s Public Address Announcer Dick Callahan that the game was postponed after a delay lasting over an hour, and the fans began to boo and yell obscenities throughout the Coliseum.

According to sources, the A’s sold approximately 33,000 tickets for the game between the Bay Area rivals, in what was the finale of the Spring Training schedule.

The A’s offered the fans of the A’s and the Giants vouchers for a future game, but that is not the point, the fans wanted to see a game.

These people spent their hard earned money to bring themselves, their families and their friends to a game that was not even played and were offered a voucher for a future game?

Okay, I get the point that the two teams did not want their players to get hurt in the finale of the Spring schedule; however you could have lowered the price of the tickets to the game.

These fans paid regular season prices for a practice game, and this is absolutely ridiculous that they pay full price for this.

It is not just in Major League Baseball, but also in the National Football League, National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League.

I for one, have attended games in the preseason as a fan and was appalled that the teams charge full price for tickets to a glorified practice game that I could have watched from the luxury of my own apartment for free.

The teams across the four major sports make millions, if not billions of dollars from the fans and they spend all this money.

To me, the teams should not charge a regular season price for an exhibition game that you see the regulars play a few innings, a few series in football and/or little in a NBA or NHL game.