I’ve had it with the elite media, who never sit in a regular seat, who are completely out of touch with the fans.
Craig Carton on WFAN is one of the good guys. He is sticking up for the little guy over Yankee-gate. Carton understands that you might not want to sit in the rain for a third hour, after paying for parking, after sitting out for two hours, when you have no idea when the game might begin. He also understands that if you have just left the stadium and then hear that they are going to play, that you might want to get back in.
His partner, former NFL QB Boomer Esiason, likely has never sat in the Promenade or Grandstand. I bet Boomer gets nice seats, and gets to wait out the rain delay in the clubs. I bet had Boomer been three feet outside the stadium, someone would have let him right back in the press gate.
Steve Somers talks about fans being whiny about obstructed views. I guess Steve thinks the seat on the left is just fine.
I had a private email exchange with a reporter yesterday. His suggestion was to not buy those seats. So every human is supposed to somehow know not to buy Section 533 Row 1 at Citi Field? Don’t you have a reasonable expectation to see the game? Wouldn’t a normal person assume Row 1 had a good view?
Baseball isn’t like the NBA, NHL, Broadway or a movie. At those events you know that 99.9% of the time the event will start as scheduled. In baseball it sometimes rains, and the fans get told too bad.
I was listening to WCBS last night. Suzyn kept saying she had no idea when or if the game would start. If she doesn’t know, how can they expect some regular guy not to throw in the towel at 9pm? She also kept mentioning how cold it was.
Back to the reporters suggestion that we don’t buy tickets. I believe the great prophet Phil Mushnick’s predictions have finally come true. We are going to stop going to games.
A big time Yankee fan I know is so disgusted with last night’s late start and no-raincheck that he has decided that this will be his last year of season tickets. He realizes it’s cheaper to just get the games you want on Stubhub. He also reminded me that parking at Yankee is projected to be $29 next year (I’ll post that in a few minutes).
I will predict right now that neither the Mets nor Yankees will draw as well in 2010 as they do in 2009, and thus tickets will be even easier to get.
Yankees-Red Sox in a brand new stadium. Big deal, right? As of 8:55 am there are 4100 tickets on Stubhub, and you can sit in the Grandstand for $17.50 (plus fees).
Fans, you are all a bunch of whiners. You don’t get it. You should be thrilled to sit in the rain for hours.
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Steve Somers is right.