The Oakland Athletics have been residents of The Coliseum (now reffered to as O.co Coliseum) since 1968 , when they relocated from Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. Since moving the A's have won 4 World Series, 6 AL Pennants, and 14 West Division Titles. The Athletics' time in Oakland may be nearing expiration as team owner Lew Wolff has hopes of moving the team to San Jose. However, those plans come with considerable opposition, the San Francisco Giants.

The Giants continue to block the A's move from Oakland to the fact that their organization owns territorial rights to Santa Clara County. With San Jose being the third largest city in the state of California and tenth largest city in the United States it is clear why the Giants are reluctant to agree to the Athletics move.

The New York Mets have had their fair share of struggles these past few years with three seasons ending with losing records and financial issues off the field. So when MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, Mets owner Fred Wilpon, Mr. Met, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the Citi Field as host of the 2013 All-Star Game — scheduled for July 16, 2013 — of course it made Mayor Bloomberg and Mets fans a little bit giddy.

The 2013 All-Star Game will be the first time since 1964, the inaugral year Shea Stadium opened for the Mets, that the Queens burrough of New York City has hosted. However, New York City hasn't been as far removed — the 2008 All-Star Game was hosted by the New York Yankees during the final season of the old stadium.

Dynamic pricing, or pricing according to market demand, has long been used in the hotel and airline industries. However, the move to sports ticketing, a likely candidate due to the many variables affecting ticket demand, has been slow.

Launched in 2007, Qcue was the first company to provide a dynamic pricing algorithm to be applied to ticket pricing. Its model can be customized for a variety of entities, including promoters and venues, but its work with sports teams has gained the company its trailblazing reputation.

For the Boston Red Sox, a well-timed nor'easter in New England and a subsequent three-game series on the road against a reeling opponent might have saved their season — and their nearly decade-long streak of sellouts at Fenway Park.

The Red Sox opened this season by losing 10 of their first 14 games for the second year in a row, on the heels of a stunning September collapse last season that cost the Sox a playoff berth and led to the departure of manager Terry Francona. Last weekend the Sox endured back-to-back embarrassments at the hand of the New York Yankees. Their first loss came on Friday, April 20, putting a damper on the 100th birthday celebration of Fenway Park, and the following evening the Sox managed to blow a nine-run lead in the final three innings by allowing 15 unanswered runs, falling to the Yankees 15-9.

A team that loses almost 800,000 fans in a two-year span — in a stadium that is just three years old — has little choice but to modify its approach to lure the paying public back to the game, even if it means doing the complete opposite of what it used to do.

Such is the case with the New York Mets, who drew 2,352,596 fans to Citi Field last season, down from 3,168,571 in the facility's debut campaign in 2009. As part of their efforts to boost those figures, the Mets have pulled in the fences in both left field (where the fence is 13 feet closer, from 371 to 358, to home plate) and right field (from 415 feet to 395 feet) and lowered the left field fence from 16 feet to 8 feet.