The sox also sucked when you were a kid, but that’s a different story. Ticket prices being so high are 150% a result of ticket brokers. But not in the way you think. The real issue is Ticketmaster or the other primary sellers using “big data” to basically try and become the scalper. Ticketmaster uses the data they gather from their ticket resale platform (mostly brokers), verified fan presale signups, etc to gauge interest of a show/game. They then control the “face value” prices (dynamic pricing), allotment released (holdbacks to garner demand), etc. the ticket system is broken and while it may have started from ticket scalping, it’s 100000% on the greed of a giant monopoly (Ticketmaster) that no one wants to actually see…