Friday, October 10, 2008
GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT.
I realize it hasn’t even been two full weeks since the collapse of the 2008 season, but I get kind of nervous when companies are holding on to hundreds of dollars of my hard-earned money and not telling me when they’re going to give it back to me. The storyline that the Mets are handing out is that they have already refunded everybody’s playoff tickets, but what the beat writers don’t get the specifics on, and what the Mets don’t volunteer, is that all that means is that there’s a credit in your Mets ticket account. They aren’t cutting checks, crediting credit cards, or in any way shape or form physically getting cash back to you. It’s still sitting there, earning interest for Sterling Equities, LLC, while Fred and Jeff try to get us to buy $50 bricks.
Fans are starting to get disgruntled. Steve at the Eddie Kranepool Society already unleashed a rant, while the ever-stalwart folks over at Loge 13 continue to hoist the standard for the average fan. Aside from that, it’s business as usual everywhere else. Fans calling and asking the ticket office are being told that they’re figuring things out now and they’ll let us know within two weeks, to which I say:
WHAT IN TARNATION HAVE YOU PEOPLE BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS?
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