So, instead of offering three plans of 13 games each, they offered four plans of 15 games each, with each getting a few weekdays. In the grand scale of greed, it’s not the most egregious example, since there’s clearly more of a market for 15 game plans than could be handled just by 3 plans. What I fail to understand is why they didn’t make the game on Memorial Day part of the weekend plan, since it’s technically a weekend date, but not a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
The other thing that strikes me as interesting is the manipulations of the Sunday plan relative to the Jewish calendar. There are a significant number of observant Jews who have had the Sunday plan for years, in part because they want a plan, but are religiously prohibited from attending a game on Friday evenings or Saturdays, as well as certain Jewish holidays. If some of the Sunday home games were going to be excluded from the Sunday plan, it might have made sense to exclude games that would be on one of the few Sundays that overlapped with the holidays, which this year are September 20th (Rosh Hashannah) and October 4th (Sukkot). They got it a little right by excluding the game on October 4th, although Rosh Hashanah is much more widely observed. What’s then odd is that they included in the Sunday plan one of the weekday games that fell on a holiday on which observant Jews could not attend a game — April 16th. It’s not so much overly greedy as not understanding one of the things that makes the Sunday plan attractive to a couple of thousand plan holders.
i think i’m running out of things to say about the Mets and the crazy stuff they do. it doesn’t even make sense why they’d change the plans in the first place, other than stupid greed.