I don't get how someone can be so economically illiterate.
Maybe it will help if I put it like this. The Pirates sold approximately 10,000 extra tickets to the game that started your bitchfest. Let's say they all sold for $25 each. They didn't but let's pretend. If instead of selling those tickets for $25, how many tickets would they have had to have sold at $10 a piece to make the same amount of money?
Since math is hard, let me help you. They would have had to have sold 25,000 extra tickets instead of just 10,000 extra tickets. Do you really think that there are 15,000 people out there like you who think that $25 for a ticket to a major league baseball game is just a bridge too far but that who would have gone to that game on that night had the tickets only been $10? In reality, a better question would be not if they sold an extra 15,000 tickets, it's if they would have sold an extra 150 tickets.
They made literally hundreds of thousands of extra dollars doing it the way that they did rather than the way that you wanted them to. Is it really any surprise that a business didn't turn down all that extra money like you wanted them to? Would you have?