I’m excited that Jeff said the Mets will have an announcement about 2011 Mets tickets.
I could imagine Jeff doesn’t get to read the site every day, so in the interest of making sure the Mets get all my wonderful ideas, here’s some of the ones I hope the consider. (Regular readers put on your ‘heard this already face’)
As I proposed on September 29th..: UNDEFEATED TUESDAYS
The Mets went undefeated at home on Tuesday.
I propose the Mets sell “guaranteed victory” packs. Your plan gets you a ticket to every Tuesday home game. If they don’t win you can come to the next weeknight (Monday through Thursday) game for free. If they lose again you get invited back.
Why is this brilliant?
1. It’s fun
2. It involves the fans
3. It’s marketable. Say “Pepsi Undefeated Tuesday”
4. Fannies in the seats buy hot dogs and shakes.
Back on the 16th I had some other ideas. I was a little more sarcastic that day:
OPENING DAY PACK: Buy one normally priced ticket to the April 8th home opener and gain entry to that very game. One for the price of one.
SUBWAY PACK: Buy one ticket to any single game on July 1, 2 or 3 and gain admission to which ever game you buy.
Got it? Now let’s take it up a notch.
SATURDAY PACK: By buying the Saturday pack you will gain admission to April 9 (WAS), April 23 (ARI), May 7 (LA), May 28 (PHI), June 4 (ATL), June 18 (Angels), July 2 (Yankees), July 16 (PHI), Aug 6 (ATL), Aug 20 (MIL), Aug 27 (ATL), Sep 10 (Cubs), and Sep 24 (PHI)
Let’s review that very attractive pack. 13 games. All on Saturdays that occur on Saturdays. 3 games vs. the Phillies, one Yankees, one Dodgers, one Angels…maybe even some giveaway days.
If a game happens on a Saturday it’s part of this pack. If it doesn’t happen on a Saturday it’s not.
The price of each ticket shall be the same. Yep, the Brewers game and the Yankee game will cost the same.
Apply same logic to Sunday.
Back in January I proposed Seven Packs. Note the dates I listed are from 2010, I did the work once, someone in Flushing can apply the same logic to 2011.
I propose the Mets announce the following. Saturday Seven Packs. Sell the seats in Promenade Left and make it a “thing” – make that area where the diehards sit, even if we’re cheap.
Package the following:
April 10th vs Washington
May 8th vs SF
June 5th vs Florida
July 10th vs Atlanta
August 28th vs Arizona
September 18th vs Atlanta
October 2nd vs WashingtonOne game a month. Keep the fans coming out. Honestly I can’t be bothered to compute the ticket prices because I’ll have to look up all seven games instead of just multiplying 7 by $15. Let’s say it’s about a $100-150ish package.
7 Saturdays, one hundred(ish) bucks.
However, we’re not dopes…why should we lock in our money without something extra? Here’s why. Throw in a t-shirt, a cap, whatever is inexpensive for you to make. If it has a corporate sponsor logo on the premium, fine whatever I get it.
Heck you might want to even steal the Blue Cap Army idea….take it, it’s yours.
There ya go Jeff. Hope that helps. Seriously dude, undefeated Tuesdays is a winner. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Don’t forget my “Whatever Works for You Plan” that I proposed earlier in the year. You get the choice of Opening day or a Yankee game, and then a set number of games of your choosing. For arguments sake we will make it 10. Every game is eligable to be a plan game, not the games the Mets designate. If you’re on a budget and you want to buy all bronze games, go ahead. If you want to fight a Phillie fan invading Citi Field 9 times a year, snatch those tickets up, and pay the gold level price for them. You want to only go to games on Saturdays? Then go to Saturday games. So what I am saying is: no set plan, no set price. If you want Opening day or a Yankee game, then you’re buying 10 games, but 10 games that work for you. If they sell those out, that’s 1.6 million tickets sold, and people will feel good because they didn’t get strong armed into games they didn’t want.
Love guaranteed win Tuesdays.
Also love having an all your can eat section, other teams do this.
Should have vouchers for discounts if you bring clothing and canned goods for charity.
Certain nights should have dollar dogs and three dollar suds.
Best though is bring your mutt to the park.
They at least know the proper response to the Wilpons:
Lift their legs and/or squat.
Hey Shannon how about something for us full season plan suckers
Exactly John. We put all that money up front for 81 games and other people just go online or to the tix office and buy single gameday tix and pay the same price. Shouldn’t season tix holders be getting a discount…each game a little cheaper than the face value of the tix? Where’s our perk or incentive? Another peeve of mine is that STH in the promenade do not have access to the promenade club…or any other club…only promenade box tix do. With all the tix the Mets gave away as comps this past season, every tix had club access. If you go online and buy tix for 1 random game in Promenade Box section you have club access. Us fools paying for 81 games don’t have access to squat!