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Low Demand For Mets and Yankees On Stubhub?

From Monday  (I wanted to focus on the season opener Monday and save something for day-after-off-day)…

Bloomerberg wrote about how expensive the new stadiums  are to the “average fan” but I found it interesting that there’s no demand on tickets.   I have a bunch up on Stubhub myself (both stadiums) and with the exception of the Citi opener….I’m having a similar lack of success.

Sion Nuseiri, an accountant from Brooklyn, said he bought two season tickets with the idea of selling off enough to wind up with a profit. Instead, the offers he gets are below the $15- $35 face value for his tickets. The price varies with the Mets’ opponent.

“I actually thought I would make some money,” Nuseiri, 23, said in an interview. “Every time I put something on Craigslist, people are trying to lowball me.” 

The rest is here.

Now before you ask me why I have tickets on stubhub….(a) I have a family and sometimes I can’t go.  Should I blow off my kid’s birthday?  and (b) I am not a millionaire and getting $200 back for my “extra” opening day ticket went a long way.

“I am sitting in my seat for $325, and you are sitting next to me and only paying $200 for that ticket,” he said. ‘ I will have no way of knowing it was the (Yankees) team who slashed the price and dumped them.”

I am starting to think about going back to ebay.  The 15% that stubhub costs means you really have to overprice the tickets just to break even.   Stubhub, the official ticket scalping home of MLB.

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Obama Pastor Rips Yankees

Saw this yesterday morning but wanted to give Citi Field some space.

From the White House press pool…these are the comments of Obama’s pastor.   This is a non-story but fun headline!

“Not only that, baseball season has started,” Leon said , adding the church drummer is a big New York Yankees fan.

Leon said he wanted to remind everybody that the Orioles have beaten the Yankees twice so far, and therefore, “The world lives in hope”

“I’m a fairly charitable person, but I have to tell you – I hate the Yankees,” he said, and laughter erupted from the pews.

And the News adds:

White House spokesman Bill Burton did not respond last night to the Daily News’ urgent inquiry into this matter.

Hey at least Mr. Obama doesn’t pretend to be some big-time Yankees fan like certain former senators from Arkan…I mean New York.  (Too political?)

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Mets and Yankees Identity Crisises (Newsday)

As I’ve been saying I pushed some stuff off yesterday to give Citi Field some attention….but Newsday had a nice piece on Monday.

The Mets, meanwhile, have a real identity crisis of sorts. As we’ve discussed here previously, is there another professional team out there, in any sport, that gets such grief from its own fans? There’s an incredible disconnect between the way Mets ownership feels about Omar Minaya and the way many Mets fans feel about Omar.

Citi Field is really nice, but haunted by its own name, fittingly.

Will the Mets ever build an organization as well-planned as their ballpark is? Will the Yankees, who operate as though they were raised by parents with impossibly high standards (hey, wait a minute…), ever forgive themselves and operate like a normal baseball team?

The rest is here.

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MLB Sends Cease And Desist To New Stadium Insider Yankees Blogger

New Stadium Insider reports that they got a cease and desist letter from MLB over a ticket giveaway NSI was running, and NSI was also asked to remove the “inaugural season” logo.

While I understand MLB’s position, I find it interesting that they come after one of the squeaky-wheel blogs and not one of the rah-rah blogs.    I also wonder if they are cracking down on every church, school and girl scout troop who raffles off tickets.

This morning NSI is reporting that Trenton (Yanks) beat Binghamton (Mets) which I’m sure what the Yankees want NSI to focus on.

Only 90,000 or so people have been to the disappointing new stadium.  I’m telling you right now, in about two weeks “people don’t like it” is going to be a louder and louder story.

As for the blogs in general.   We have a symbiotic relationship with the newspapers.  Yes blogs sometimes use a paragraph or two from, but it’s also true that newspapers check out the blogs for stories – NSI being quoted about tickets is probably the reason the Yankees noticed that blog….and the Times has been circling around the obstructed views stories.

Someone on Twitter asked what will happen to the blogs when newspapers die.  First, newspapers won’t die.  They may become smaller, or just on-line, or become Kindle-delivered so technology TBA so that they are more current and portable.   Even in a world without newspapers the blogs will survive.   The teams will still want their teams covered, and all it would take is throwing a guy like me, or New Stadium Insider or any of the hundreds of other blogs some access (tickets, come see a workout, add us to the press release distribution) and the blogs will fill the void.  Maybe not as well as some of the beat reporters….but on the other hand, I don’t see too many of the newspapers posting pictures of puddles on Day 2 of New Yankee Stadium.

There’s room for everyone.   Now that I said that I expect to be asked to change the name of this site to “Flushing Police” later today.

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