Friday, March 16, 2007
$50 and Opening Day
That’s what TBF and I have decided is our limit to pay for tickets to Opening Day.
We debated buying on StubHub; we debated buying a seven-pack; in all cases, it still wasn’t worth the money. The location of the seats in the remaining seven-packs available sucked - not quite Section 38, Row Q suckage (which is the cheapest seat location on StubHub right now, for $78), but still not a seat we would be happy sitting in.
We would both go off and look at the seat locations for both options, not telling the other that we were doing this, and then we’d get pissed off and scowl and not know why. It kills me that the number of tickets available on StubHub has not gone down, it has only gone up.
Until the other night, when TBF appeared in the doorway of my office:
“You know, Opening Day is cool and all, and I really wanted to go with you, but the truth is that there are going to be games this year that will be far more significant to me than Opening Day, games I would be happy to pay a premium for. I think we should save our money for those games.”
I agreed wholeheartedly, and that’s when we reached the consensus on the $50 mark.
Tomorrow, I am writing a letter to the Mets. I need to stop bitching on here and put my money where my mouth is. At least I’ll feel like I did *something*.
Good for you Metsgrrl. I am a season ticket holder but it makes me so mad that people like my dad and my uncle—who have made it a family traditional essentially to go to Opening day with their respective families can’t go unless they win a raffle or whatever it is. My dad is a mini-plan holder but doesn’t get OD tix but used to get in on the pre-sale. At least open it to the fans who have tickets plans, but for everyone else have an auction. hopefully if more fans speak up, they can come to a happy medium.
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