I’m not going to the games this weekend.
Oh, I have tickets (multiple pairs actually) and I posted them all on Stubhub.
Is that wrong?
My experience has been that those games are best enjoyed on a big screen television after a nice day out in the sun.
Something about the subway games brings out the worst in Mets fans. A bunch of drunks looking to fight with the knuckleheads from uptown.
I like going to the games with either Junior or Beloved Daughter (I expect her black jersey to arrive tonight and the smile will outweigh my blog being exposed as fraudulent). I don’t enjoy these games when the “cheering” turns to swearing.
Then let’s consider the financial aspect. I have already sold one pair for triple what I paid. That offsets two other games from my 15 game plan (now a 14 game plan). That’s basic economics.
I am a capatalist who has a nice funding scheme with my Sunday Phillies plan (phi-bos this week, ka-ching). Oh and someone gave me $100 to watch Boston-NYY tonight. All that let’s me do the things I actually care about for free.
However I feel odd not going, at least to the Saturday game.
Sunday 8:05 can rot in hell. That’s one of the first things I will change when I become comissioner of baseball.
That’s my take. Sell em. How about you?
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The subway series has lost a little, but it’s still fun. However, when either team has their own drama going on it loses more. The mets are a disaster of pitching right now and need to fire their manager and aren’t going to go into the series able to really focus on the subway series rivalry.
It’s one thing when they’re competive and the teams aren’t in flux, even if one team is bad ( like say ’03), but when there is so much going wrong internally, it’s hard to worry about the opponents.
Honestly, I probably should consider selling the two tickets I have for Friday (going with 3 others Sunday) to see if i can fund sunday.
Like you Shannon I love to take my kids to the ball game and to me the Subway Series is the baseball version of New Years Eve, it’s amature night and who wants to deal with the obnoxious ass’ on both side. There is a reason why God made HD TV’s
Add in the Sunday game for some reason is on ESPN. I guess the WWL in Bristol CT didn’t get the word that the country hates anything that deals with NYC same with FOX
Take the profits, buy a couple of steaks and some beer, fire up the grill and enjoy!!!
I’m going to go on Friday night. I go every year and while some of the fans on both sides are more obnoxious than usual, I’ve enjoyed all the games I’ve gone to throughout the years. I think I’ll drive though, because if the Mets lose, taking the 7 train back into the city with drunken, in your face Yankee fans can border on intolerable.
I did it after the Yankees won the World Series in 2000 and let me tell you, many were not gracious winners.
I have no problem selling the tickets. I had a chance to buy some in the presale, but just didn’t have any desire. The games are much more fun when the Mets are competent and they’re competitive. Plus, you have the Yankees coming off of two games against the Red Sox, so those fans will be exponentially boorish. I don’t blame you. Had the games come after the 9-1 homestand, or at the end of it, it’d be a different story.
Hell I wouldn’t buy them in the first place. I utterly loathe interleague play (along with the wildcard)and don’t care much for the Yankees (lifetime New Yorker and I’ve been to yankee stadium twice – 1978 and 2007 and that was too many times) to the point I don’t ever bother to watch the games on TV. It’s cheap stupid gimick drawn up by a used car salesman – for every high profile matchup – you get 6 games with teams you barely know and don’t give a damn about.
When I was a season ticket holder I would package the Yankee tickets with other horrible games against the Nats, Buckos and reap the benefits of the Yankees being a hot ticket. If I was still a season ticket holder I would still sell them to the highest bidder, Yankee fan or Mets. But, I am not a season ticket holder anymore b/c this team and organization blow.
In your case I wouldn’t call it a sin. They are part of your plan and you decided not to go.
The Phillies tix thing however is totally wrong. I’ve always been against buying tickets to games you had no intention on ever going to. I mean if you walked into Dunkin Donuts to get a donut and the guy in front of you buys the last one, even though he didn’t want it, just so he can turn around and sell it to you for 5 bucks, it’d be kind of a dick move. However I don’t judge and tickets are more expensive so we all do what we gotta. In the end it Phillies fans anyway so Ph@ck ‘em.
@randy i don’t have zero intention of going, just little. I used the tickets once this season, and hope to use them for Phils-Mets. I couldn’t last time because I can’t swing a gosh darn 8:05 sunday nighter.
It’s cool. Mostly playing devils advocate.
Randy,
Why should they not buy extra games when the teams force people to buy games they want to in order to get in to the games they do want to go to?
The problem is on the administrative end and not on the fan end.
@ Scott my beef, and keep in mind it is very small one, is with buying another teams ticket plan simply to sell them.
That said I agree completely about forcing people. If they insist on packages then I say next year let ME choose my 15 games. Even if it means I gotta move my seats around a little throughout the year.