Media Goon noticed that the Mets invited people (via email) to buy tickets for Opening Weekend, so I thought I’d click the link.
I started with the least expensive seats for Opening Day, the Promenade, which are an outrageous $42 by the way. Do you think I got in?
Section 532. Two seats.
One word: gangbusters.
Funny enough, you stole my word Goon!
So knowing that they’d lie to the faces of their fans,does anyone have any doubt they’d lie to the investigators about the Madoff situation? Not saying there is a direct connection, but the character obviously fits.
How is this a lie? There are tickets available
The least expensive seats are actually in the Mr. Met Landing for Opening Day. I think we paid 30 or 35 for them.
Of course, Yankee tickets aren’t sold out, even in the bleachers, for their home Opener, which is a week earlier. Supposedly that team isn’t a lying financial disaster who hate their fans and kick puppies either. (I disagree on that, but the point remains that they haven’t sold out either)
This happens all the time with sports & concerts but its only an issue when its the Mets.
LCD Soundsystem’s farewell concert at MSG (this weekend) sold out in seconds a few weeks ago. It was a big controversy, they added a shows all week this week at Terminal 5.
So what happens today at 10 AM? They put 1000 or so tickets on sale for MSG & some tickets for Terminal 5 as well.
There’s no lying or conspiracy going on with the Mets. Nothing is ever permanently sold out, tickets magically become available for any number of reasons as the day of an event approaches.
I’m fairly certain that Opening Day in 1987 & 1970 was declared a sell out at one point and then weeks later or day of game, there were probably ticket on sale at the box office. But now we have the interwebs to make these situations more apparent.
The Yankees may not have sold out but they also haven’t claimed sales are gangbusters and better than last year in hopes of getting more attention. Matter of fact, they’ve made it quite obvious to their fans sales are down.
The conspiracy isn’t that the game isn’t sold out, it’s that ticket sales are down, contrary to what we’ve been told.