“until sometime next month”

Coincidentally enough, payment in full for full season ticket planholders is due sometime in November.  I’d imagine that we’ll receive meaningful details about partial plans a few days after the date in November on which those payments are due.

I find it hard to believe that they haven’t figured out these details already.  Unless the people running the ticket office are completely incompetent (which could very well be possible), I’d think that they’d have to flesh out details such as postseason rights.  For example, I doubt people will buy 40-game plans if they don’t include better postseason rights than 15-game plans.  Otherwise, people would double up on 15-game plans. 

Some decisionmaker in the ticket office decided that the partial plans at Citi Field would consist of 40-game plans and 15-game plans.  I’d be shocked if this determination was made without considering things such as postseason rights, seat locations in which various plans would be offered, and the breakdown of the games offered in each plan.  Then again, this is the Mets Ticket Office that we’re dealing with.  Maybe, they just picked the numbers 40 and number 15 out of a hat when deciding on the size of partial plans and decided that they’d figure out the details later.

http://mlb.mlb.com/det/ticketing/season.jsp?loc=15game

FWIW these were the Tigers 15 game plans for 2008.

They could have picked them because someone there might have been smart enough to look at what other teams do. And honestly these were the numbers we were coming up ourselves - we imagined there would be a half-season and a quarter season, because that’s what other teams do.

I just don’t believe they don’t know. Is the business organized so poorly that this wasn’t decided years ago?

After 2007--2008, it’s foolish to even consider “postseason rights” as an incentive to buy a plan. The Mets have four bona fide MLB players: Wright, Reyes, Beltran, and Santana. Every other position is up for grabs. They had three straight WS shots and choked three staright years. I’d advise a new “non-entitlement” attitude from the fans. Remember: This is a greedy cut-throat organization that feels very good about itself despite only making the postseason 7 times in 46 years. With improvement expected in the entire NL in 2009, the maturing of the Marlins, the Braves deciding to invest in players again, 2009 looks like a 75-win year at best for Team Choke.