Ridiculous World Series ticket prices will make Dodgers fans avoid traffic and stay home

After almost every postseason game at Dodger Stadium so far this season, we've gotten aerial shots of the miles and miles of cars trailing out of the parking lot, and a lot of the requisite jokes about terrible LA traffic. It makes sense; the Dodgers have been selling out these games in an instant, and ticket prices have been getting more ridiculous with every round.

Games 1 and 2 of the 12th Dodgers-Yankees World Series in the teams' histories are set for Friday and Saturday at Dodger Stadium. Due to the fan-less 2020 season, this will be the first time that Dodgers fans will actually have the opportunity to be there, in person, while their team chases a ring since 2018 (and hopefully this one will actually go the Dodgers' way).

Even some regular season games have been cost-prohibitive for fans — that's the Shohei Ohtani effect, folks — but World Series ticket prices are impossible to stomach. At the time of writing, a single resale ticket to Game 1 currently ranges between $1,034 and $8,947, per StubHub. The floor for Game 2 tickets are $1,159, $1,370 for a potential Game 6, and $1,365 for a potential Game 7.

Dodgers-Yankees World Series tickets have reached absurd, completely unaffordable levels

If you're thinking about taking a trip to the east coast for Games 3 through 5, you won't have any luck there either, with tickets in pretty much the exact same price range as the ones at Dodger Stadium. The baseline at Yankee Stadium might actually be worse; get-in price for Monday's Game 3 is $1,680 on SeatGeek. Those 15-year droughts will really get you.

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised, as these teams represent two of the most expensive cities to live in in the United States, but it's still hard not to balk at those numbers.

We all want to be there in person to watch two Goliaths duke it out on the big stage, but with prices like this, you might be better off saving yourself the three hours it'll take to get out of the stadium parking lot.