Comments on: Plenty of good seats available..and I am tempted to buy them

By: Shannon Shark

Shannon Shark — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:09 +0000

Shea-de and Scott, you make total sense. I’l calmer today, but I am tempted by the idea of locking in great seats behind home – but maybe that’s fools gold. I hope to spend some time with Junior this weekend, we’ll see if we get baseball fever.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:49:31 +0000

Buy in advance, get 15 games….buy 1 game at a time on the secondary market, get 30 for the same price. You do the math.

By: Made in the Shea-de

Made in the Shea-de — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:13:42 +0000

Resist, Shannon. There is little to be gained by buying any advance plan, other than getting stuck with some games you can’t go to and nobody might want to buy. The only thing you really miss out on is guaranteed playoff tickets. If that’s an issue this season, so be it. You’ll be too busy celebrating that they actually made it to feel remorse that you didn’t roll the dice and plunk down your money in advance.

Count me among those fans Ceetar discusses above (sort of): Baseball is in the air and I can’t wait to watch some real Mets baseball come April 6. (I’ll have to miss opening day due to Passover.) But as much as I want to be a part of this season, I am resigned to doing so on a game by game basis. In other words, I’ll buy seats as I decide to go, and my first stop will be Stubhub. I never imagined I’d feel this way, especially two years ago when I finally graduated to the full 81-game plan. I was like Media Goon (above) — always promising myself as a kid that I’d buy myself some seats at Shea if I ever had enough money. But I’ve had it with the team’s ticket prices and policies. The only way any of that changes is if people refuse to play along by buying big strips of games up front. I know it’s naive to imagine that enough people will “boycott” to actually turn any heads in the front office. But for now it’s giving me some sort of personal satisfaction.

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:01 +0000

I re-upped my Sunday plan when there were some better infield seats available. Totally worth it because you can really see the whole field from over there.

Last year they were the best seats I sat in other than section 311 in the Ceaser’s Club.

By: media goon

media goon — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:06:11 +0000

Just buy the seats. I upgraded because ever since I was a kid I pormised myself that I would some day have my own seats at Shea. I have enough extra cash flow that I was able to upgrade from my promenade seats. Even though I didn’t get to see the left fielder most of the time I still enjoyed the games I went to. I never wanted to sit in the uppers at Shea because I felt so far away from the game. I didn’t feel that way with my Promenade seats.

By: Ceetar

Ceetar — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:03:37 +0000

Buy ‘em if you want them. If you’re truly a Mets fan and a baseball fan, you’ll enjoy going to the games. There is way too much being made about it, but if the Mets even have a halfway decnet year people will be there. Everyone that complained about ‘boycotting’ or not buying tickets this offseason is probably feeling the same way right now, baseball is in the air and they realize taht they do want to be a part of it.

Of course, I’ve said and many have noted that their is little tangible benefit to buying the 15 games rather than individually buying the games you want. Maybe a little less in fees, and the likelyhood that you’ll be guarenteed some sort of postseason options.

It’s now the second year of the stadium, but one of the main reasons I didn’t renew my saturday plan last year was because I didn’t want to get locked down in seats. There are affordable times when the Pepsi Porch, the RF Reserved, the Caeser’s bronze, maybe a Gary, Keith and Ron Big Apple seating game. I wanted to experience the different views and angles of the park, and while Prom infield is the best value with excellent views and a closeness you didn’t get at Shea, I didn’t want to get tied down.