Would you have paid a $1 to watch the Kansas City Royals get shelled last night?

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CNBC’s Darren Rovell believes that Major League Baseball is overvaluing tickets to baseball games. In a Monday afternoon story, Rovell noted that tickets to last night’s Royals-Indians game were going for less than $5 on the secondary market, thus proving MLB’s pricing to be jacked up.

“If teams don’t accept that, on a given night against a bad opponent,

their ticket is worth $1, then they are just denying the reality,”

Rovell wrote, adding that the Washington Nationals were selling tickets

for $1 (along with $1 hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn and parking).

In the wake of last night’s 19-1 thrashing of the Kansas City Royals by

the Cleveland Indians, I doubt that anyone in Royal blue thought they got their money’s worth. Sports Illustrated‘s Joe Posnanski wrote a story about the game

titled, “The

worst pitching performance ever.”