Friday, June 19, 2009

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No Demand On Subway Series Tickets At Citi Field?

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So here's what I'm hearing from at least three people....(I'm on the road and haven't been as on top of things as usual in Flushing).

....The Mets had a lottery for Subway Series tickets. Nobody I knew of and nobody who reads the Mets Police won them.

Then the Mets tried to sell even more Subway Series tickets as part of a 6-pack.

Now, I'm hearing from folks that they won a "second chance lottery" - which suggests that the Mets find themselves with more tickets on hand than even they expect.

I won.
I first got an email saying I DIDNT win.
Then today I got an email that let me buy tickets. I still have two tickets that I can purchase but im not going to , so if anyone
wants to buy tickets maybe we can set up a private ebay auction.
Email : Jessica1216xoxo@aol.com


Also

I won too today. It was like a second chance from the first lottery I guess they had unsold tickets from the first lottery but I won. And bought three tickets to the opener on friday im so pumped



Interesting.


Dan jumping in here. I also got the Second Chance Lottery email yesterday. All 3 games were available, and tickets were there for every price level. That's a LOT of availability for what once was a premier event. A combination of several things probably has contributed to this:

1 - The shine has worn off interleague play. I never liked this "experiment" as it essentially took away the distinctiveness of the 2 leagues (the DH aside). For several years now, outside of the "key" matchups (Mets/Yankees, Dodgers/Angels, Cubs/ChiSox) attendance has been floundering. It was only a matter of time before it caught up to these series as well.

2 - The shine has worn off the new ballparks. We've documented here countless times the lack of attendance at games this season. After the first few weeks demand for tickets has plumeted. Go take a look at StubHub and see how many people are selling tickets for every game. The apple may have been brought over but The Magic Is Not Back

3 - It's the economy stupid. Ticket prices, concessions, novelties, etc. The cost of going to a game here in NYC was always high, even before the new parks. The increased expense at New Shea and George's Stadium coupled with a sagging economy - well, people would rather eat and pay rent than go to a ballgame.

I really wonder what it will look like next year.

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3 Responses to "No Demand On Subway Series Tickets At Citi Field?"
Anonymous said :
June 20, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Dan seems to have it down.

Supply for sub series part 1 at Y.S. was high, so prices on StubHub and C.L. were real low.

I also went to the Castillo game, and though the crowd was, for a sub series game, amazingly tame and quiet.

I see a lot of availability for Part 2 on StubHub, and yes, I "won" the 2nd Lottery, however, I didn't think of it that way, but that the Mets failed to sell enough "subway series packages" and knew that it was time to let go of inventory before it was too late.

My biggest complaint about interleague play, at the risk or stating the obvious is that is has ruined the All-Star Game and had diluted the World Series, and has taken my National League umpires away!!!!
Anonymous said :
June 20, 2009 at 5:50 AM
I can't stand interleague play. I used to like it but it's bad now for all the reasons stated above. Do it once every 10 years and make it a novelty again.

We need someone to become the Bud Selig Police. Ain't enough hours in the day to catalog all his violations.
Anonymous said :
June 23, 2009 at 1:54 PM
"Go take a look at StubHub and see how many people are selling tickets
for every game."

and if you take a look at stub hub you'll see the average ticket price for the subway series is way above average (the cheapest seats are selling for over double face-value). This show how the demand still is way above supply.

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