Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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Why Isn't This Saturday Included In New York Mets Saturday Tickets Plan?

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I have a (cough) Saturday plan.
 
As you know, this past Monday was a Saturday.  I hgave away my seats.
 
This Saturday is not a Saturday.  
 
I was thinking that the Mets are away.  Nope.
 
I was thinking I stubhubbed them and forgot.  Nope.
 
Did I lose the tickets?  Nope.
 
I took a look here (http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ticketing/season_plans.jsp) and nope, this Saturday isn't part of the (cough) Saturday plan (although Tuesday June 23rd is).
 
I can understand in the age of greed and screwing fans that they stick me with a few weekday games.  It's not right, but it's the price you pay I guess.
 
What I don't understand is why this game against the Marlins wasn't included?  Do the Mets think "Tote Bag Night" wasn't worth wasting on jerks like me who bought 30 games?
 
Am I missing something?  Facts wrong?   Anyone else with Saturday tickets out there?

3 Responses to "Why Isn't This Saturday Included In New York Mets Saturday Tickets Plan?"
DyHrdMET said :
May 27, 2009 at 12:36 PM
when this came out last year, i started to think that maybe the Wilpons were losing their grip on the core fan base. If only we knew what else was to come.
Anonymous said :
May 27, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Its because its included in the Weekend Plan, which I have. We've also stolen August 1st and September 19th from your plan, so please don't be too upset.

At least your plan includes the Subway Series, which the Weekend plan doesn't.
jmp said :
May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM
There are thirteen home weekends in a baseball season, three dates per weekend (usually), and four plans that ostensibly consist only of weekend dates: the Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and weekend plans. Each of those weekend plans includes 15 games, so it's a sure thing that the plans that are specific to the day of the week are going to have some games that differ. (That is, you can't have 15 sunday tickets given for 13 sunday games.)

So, instead of offering three plans of 13 games each, they offered four plans of 15 games each, with each getting a few weekdays. In the grand scale of greed, it's not the most egregious example, since there's clearly more of a market for 15 game plans than could be handled just by 3 plans. What I fail to understand is why they didn't make the game on Memorial Day part of the weekend plan, since it's technically a weekend date, but not a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

The other thing that strikes me as interesting is the manipulations of the Sunday plan relative to the Jewish calendar. There are a significant number of observant Jews who have had the Sunday plan for years, in part because they want a plan, but are religiously prohibited from attending a game on Friday evenings or Saturdays, as well as certain Jewish holidays. If some of the Sunday home games were going to be excluded from the Sunday plan, it might have made sense to exclude games that would be on one of the few Sundays that overlapped with the holidays, which this year are September 20th (Rosh Hashannah) and October 4th (Sukkot). They got it a little right by excluding the game on October 4th, although Rosh Hashanah is much more widely observed. What's then odd is that they included in the Sunday plan one of the weekday games that fell on a holiday on which observant Jews could not attend a game -- April 16th. It's not so much overly greedy as not understanding one of the things that makes the Sunday plan attractive to a couple of thousand plan holders.

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