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 Hey Shannon,

Thanks


It’s just a quirk to get us to tune into a meaningless game in September.  Ditto going Cohen-less tomorrow.  Maybe we’ll tune in to see how uncensored Hernandez is with just Darling to reign him in.  


 Interesting…I just purchased a pair of tickets from Stubhub. They are for the first row out in left field (left field reserve I think they’re called).

So it seems that the Mets are, in fact, dumping their tickets on Stubhub in an attempt to recoup something for them.


I don’t know that to be a fact – very interesting if true.   Has anyone else had this experience?


Finally – I’ve been running my mouth about the survey that David Howard mentioned…someone has finally written to say they were part of it:


I received a survey a couple of months back about the Citi Field experience. Pretty much the same survey. Spoke about food, seats, experience etc..

So there ya have it!  Only took a month.

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Cool, Metsblog zings the noise pollution at Citi Field:  Read: Q and A with Keith Hernandez

My daily email from mets.com included an ad for this lamp…I like it.  That same ad also mentions that the mets will be wearing the red stars & stripes hats on 9/11.

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Stuff I’m too busy with to flesh out:

Metsblog has good spin on this Read: The Gammons Plan for the Mets

Gammons’ piece is here.

Also – tonight the SNY announcers will be silent during the 6th inning, and no Gary Cohen tomorrow (just keith and Ron)

Meanwhile on Stubhub, tix for tomorrow were going as low as 99 cents (last checked 9am).   Plenty of seats under 5 bucks available.

More later

A comment came in:

Check Tuesday Night 9/8 Prices on StubHub and other various weeknight games in September. I find it hard to believe that Ticket Brokers bought up all these garbage Promenade level seats and are now listing tickets on StubHub for $1 or $2 a ticket. Season ticketholders in the cheap seats stand very little chance to sell there tickets for even half what they paid for them or at all. Are the NY Mets posting the tickets in there inventory on StubHub since they can’t sell them at the Box Office? I would find it hard to believe they would do this and piss off there season ticket holders but one must ask this question since who else would charge $2 a ticket and have it not hurt them. I am going to call the Mets but I would doubt if they were doing this that they would actually admit to it. If Mets Police could also investigate this that would be great. 

I would be very surprised to learn the Mets are selling their tickets on Stubhub at all, and there is no evidence of that whatsoever that I am aware of.

I sense that cutting some of the prices 50% has annoyed those who are holding plans (like me) because now we have no hope of “getting back” any of our money on the secondary market.   If you can get my $20 ticket for $10 from the Mets, then I have to sell mine for $9 – minus Stubhub’s commission, so my $40 in tickets becomes about $14 if I can sell them at all.

We all collectively miscalculated….it’s a good team in a first year stadium right?   The Mets hiked prices, and we bought in thinking we could make money on Stubhub.

The big difference is: in 2010 I can keep my wallet closed whereas the Mets need to sell tickets.  So the 50% cut may help their 2009 sales, but the price they pay may come in 2010.

Which reminds me – I must have been busy with the real job or something but I was late to the party with Jayson Stark’s dire assessment of the Mets’ next few years.  If you haven’t seen it by now (most other blogs had it a week ago) you definitely want to read it.

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