Marlins Offering Solid Deal With All-You-Can-Eat Ticket For $52

The Miami Marlins are making a serious play to put some butts in seats this season — something that hasn't always come easy for them — and they're doing it with a ticket option that will also give fans a deal on the food front as concession stand prices continue to get more and more absurd.

The team announced the new ticket option on Wednesday.

The way it works is that you buy a ticket — which start at $52 — and you're allowed to eat as much as you want from a menu of selected items and you can wash it down with non-alcoholic drinks.

Unfortunately, beers will cost extra.

Fans can pick from hot dogs, chili dogs, burgers nachos, peanuts, cookies, and more, but there are some rules. Fans are allowed four items per concession stand trip, and only through the seventh inning.

If you've been to any event recently you'll know this is a pretty good deal. I went to a minor league hockey game the other night and hopped up to get a beer. They had this little self-serve section so I grabbed a beer for myself, a soda for my girl, and one of those generic pin-striped boxes of popcorn that says "Pop-Corn" on the front just so there aren't any questions about what's in it.

I dropped the stuff on the pad that scans all the items (very Bladerunner) and was a little taken aback when those three items totaled $30. I had to double-check and make sure someone didn't sneak a second beer onto my tab.

But, alcohol is expensive; that drove the price up…

Yeah, I know, and it didn't help that I had to have the local craft beer with the team's logo on the can. But how do you explain the arena hotdog and Pepsi Zero I ordered later in the evening? That was $17. 

The ticket for the game was only slightly more than that.

So, good on the Marlins for offering a pretty solid deal. Perhaps it will help them on the attendance front to boot.

The Marlins were 29th in Major League Baseball last season in average attendance which put them ahead of only the Oakland Athletics.