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batmagadanleadoff May 28 2013 10:34 AM

Yankees Family Members Pissed At Mets Ticket Prices Subway Series tickets can get pricey. No surprise there. Apparently that also applies to Yankees family members, who had to dole out $250 per seat for Monday night’s opener against the Mets at Citi Field, according to the New York Post. The Yankees were “angered” because relatives of the Atlanta Braves were charged $80 apiece for their weekend series at the Mets’ home ballpark. The Mets use a dynamic pricing plan at Citi Field. Ticket values “can be adjusted on a real-time basis, either upwards or downwards, based on market demand,” according to the team’s website. The announced attendance for Monday’s game was 32,911. http://waswatching.com/2013/05/28/yanke ... et-prices/

bmfc1 May 28 2013 11:11 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

What a bunch of whiny bitches are associated with the MFYs. A reporter asked Terry and Girardi about Murphy's enthusiasm after his big hit last night. The Mets charge too much money. I'm surprised that they didn't bitch about the seat locations, too. STFU MFY and MFY-hangers on.

metirish May 28 2013 12:22 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

Fuck the MFY families and all belonging to them.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 28 2013 12:26 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

Should raise prices tonight if truly dynamic.

metsmarathon May 28 2013 12:26 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

yeah, its a crying shame that the friends and family of highly paid professional athletes have to pay the same prices as those ordinary untalented plebes who are often lucky to make a tenth of the least of their salaries to watch them play a child's game. they should totally get more free stuff. because they're special.

Ceetar May 28 2013 12:28 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Should raise prices tonight if truly dynamic. lower you mean, since it's raining.

batmagadanleadoff May 29 2013 09:47 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

Mets Defend Ticket Prices For Yankees Families; MLBPA ‘Looking Into It’ Amazin's Say Price Of Admission Same For Home Team May 29, 2013 8:48 AM NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Mets insist there was no funny business going on when they raised ticket prices for players’ family members ahead of the Subway Series. The New York Post reported this week that the Yankees were “angered” when their families had to dole out $250 per seat at Citi Field after relatives of the Atlanta Braves were charged $80 apiece for their weekend series at the Mets’ home ballpark. “The tickets are the same as Mets family members and priced the same as Mets family pays for tickets,” a spokesman for the Amazin’s told the paper. “Because of the variable pricing, ticket prices are different. It’s the same as Opening Day. It’s not gouging.” The Mets use a dynamic pricing plan at Citi Field. Ticket values “can be adjusted on a real-time basis, either upwards or downwards, based on market demand,” according to the team’s website. “We are aware of the situation and are looking into it,” MLB Players Association director of communications Greg Bouris told the Post. “There have been no grievances filed.” The attendance for Monday’s game was 32,911. There were also plenty of empty — and wet — seats Tuesday. The official attendance was announced at just 31,877. The Bombers will be looking for their first Subway Series win of the season when they host the Mets for two games at Yankee Stadium starting Wednesday. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/05/29/ ... g-into-it/ ____________ What's the deal with the Mets being able to adjust ticket prices dynamically "down"? I thought they promised not to sell tickets below face value?

Gwreck May 29 2013 09:53 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

If they don't want to sit in $250 seats, they can sit in any of the empty seats in the Promenade level for whatever the Mets were charging there. I don't expect the Yankees to be giving away the seats in front of their moat for $80 either.

metirish May 29 2013 09:55 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

The Players Association are looking into it? Fuck off why don't ye.....this is the kind of nonsense that will linger around the Mets.....utter bullshit.

G-Fafif May 29 2013 09:57 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

“The tickets are the same as Mets family members and priced the same as Mets family pays for tickets,” a spokesman for the Amazin’s told the paper. “Because of the variable pricing, ticket prices are different. It’s the same as Opening Day. It’s not gouging.” "It's not gouging" from the Mets, even if it's not, sounds like a politician denying charges of child-molestation with "No, I'm not a child molester." Just using the phrase is ill-advised. But yeah, up to 526 with ya's if ya don't like it.

Edgy MD May 29 2013 10:14 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

I'm not so sure that it isn't gouging, technically. It's certainly a non-essential good/service that they provide, so I'm not going to burn a flag over it. But raising the price to reflect increased demand, on a limited asset, in a marketplace that's artificially sealed off from competitive seller/producers --- sounds like a gouge to me. It being a common practice doesn't make it not so. My answer would have been along the lines of reminding Yankee family members that they were perfectly welcome to purchase $80 tickets to see the Mets and Braves. Got $30 burning a hole in your pocket? Plenty of good seats to the see the Marlins next weekend.

seawolf17 May 29 2013 10:20 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

Edgy MD wrote: Plenty of good seats to the see the Marlins next weekend. Ooh. And one of those games is going to likely be a Tom Koehler game.

batmagadanleadoff May 29 2013 10:24 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

bump batmagadanleadoff wrote: What's the deal with the Mets being able to adjust ticket prices dynamically "down"? I thought they promised not to sell tickets below face value?

Gwreck May 29 2013 11:26 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

There is a price floor for "season ticket holder sections," which is the season-ticket holder price. --- The "dynamic" pricing is mostly a sham anyway, and prices don't ever go "down," no matter what B.S. comes out of the mouths of Mets officials. One need look no farther than this week, where there were somewhere around 8,000 or more unsold seats for both Monday and Tuesday's game. The prices were never "lowered" to reflect that.

vtmet May 29 2013 11:36 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

I was reading an article last week about the Mets Subway series prices vs the Yankees Subway series prices...Yanks were pricing the S/W series as if they were playing a minor league team; and the Mets were pricing the tickets like they were playing a championship caliber team...Yankee stadium holds a gazillion people (plenty of room for the few Mets fans that want to stoop to going there); Citi Field holds no more than Pittsburgh's stadium (not as much room for the Yankee invaders)... simple "supply and demand" economics says that the logic makes sense for the Mets to jack up the prices to take advantage of Yankees or Phillies fans; whereas the benefit isn't there for the Yanks to do the same thing...

vtmet May 29 2013 11:43 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

also...Yankees fans got to see Niese and Harvey pitch in a pitcher's park...Do you think any Mets fans are looking forward to seeing Hefner and Gee pitch in a Little League Softball field? Gee has a road ERA of 10 (allowing a batting average of .406) and we've lost every single Hefner start this season (Road: 6.75 ERA and .275 batting average against)...

Gwreck May 29 2013 11:48 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

vtmet wrote: Yanks were pricing the S/W series as if they were playing a minor league team; and the Mets were pricing the tickets like they were playing a championship caliber team.. This is inaccurate; it would be accurately described that the Yankees are treating the Mets like any other opponent. You still aren't going to be sitting in anything good at Yankee Stadium for under $100 either. Also of note is that tonight's game will also be well-short of a sellout. I remain hopeful that this is but one more step on the road to reducing this series to 3 games every year, in alternating stadiums.

vtmet May 29 2013 11:50 AM Re: Scalped Yankees

Gwreck wrote: vtmet wrote: Yanks were pricing the S/W series as if they were playing a minor league team; and the Mets were pricing the tickets like they were playing a championship caliber team.. This is inaccurate; it would be accurately described that the Yankees are treating the Mets like any other opponent. You still aren't going to be sitting in anything good at Yankee Stadium for under $100 either. Also of note is that tonight's game will also be well-short of a sellout. I remain hopeful that this is but one more step on the road to reducing this series to 3 games every year, in alternating stadiums. the article that I read was that the Yanks had some tickets down to $28 vs the Mets (not the stubhub price, but the yankees price)...I read the article at work a week ago, so I wouldn't be able to find the link at home today...

Gwreck May 29 2013 12:02 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

That's what they cost for anyone though. Upper level "grandstand" seats are $33. Bleacher seats are $23.

batmagadanleadoff May 29 2013 12:23 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

same story ... more details ... secret ticket website for players .... players tickets are free ... players pay tax only ... Yankees not happy with Mets' ticket prices May, 29, 2013 1:30 PM ET By Darren Rovell | ESPN.com Last week, a New York Yankees player was looking at a website called CompTix, the password protected site that all major league players order their complimentary tickets from, when he saw the price: $245. That was the going rate for a ticket in the friends and family section at Citi Field for the upcoming series against the Mets. While the players get up to six free tickets for each game -- four for family and two for friends -- they have to pay taxes on the tickets. So seeing a $245 face value, which one source told ESPN.com was the highest they've ever seen at any ballpark, matters. Even a player who makes the league minimum is in the highest tax bracket, meaning the players are taxed at at least 40 percent of the value of the tickets, according to Robert Raiola, senior tax manager at FMRTL in Cranford, N.J., who advises athletes on their tax planning. As the New York Post first reported, due to the Mets' variable and dynamic pricing, the same $245 seats for the Yankees cost $80 for a series against the Braves. That means that a Braves player who took all six tickets would pay at least $192 in taxes, while a Yankees player who used same seats would pay at least $588 in taxes. A Mets spokesman said that the ticket price quoted was simply the ticket price that fans in that section would pay for that seat at that given time. The Yankees don't have variable or dynamic pricing so the ticket prices don't fluctuate. Sources say the Yankees were confused by two things. Why did the tickets rise so much in value if the demand wasn't there? Games on Monday and Tuesday weren't sold out and had the lowest attendance of any matchup between the two teams in their history. The Yankees then asked why the Mets couldn't assign a lower value to players' tickets since the team wasn't making money off the comped tickets anyway. The Mets refused, and for what it's worth, charged their players the same amount. While Greg Bouris, spokesman for the MLB Players Association, said the union is "aware of the situation," a source said it doesn't look like the Mets committed any violation and therefore wouldn't expect any action. It is up to the individual teams to assign whatever value they want to the tickets the players get, but as variable and dynamic pricing becomes more common, situations like this could become a bigger issue. http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/ ... ket-prices

metsmarathon May 29 2013 12:42 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

well, fuck them even harder, then. they had to pay more for their already discounted tickets. boo fucking hoo. oh, waah, they couldn't get a discount on their already discounted tickets? poor widdle baby.

batmagadanleadoff May 29 2013 12:46 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

metsmarathon wrote: well, fuck them even harder, then. they had to pay more for their already discounted tickets. boo fucking hoo. oh, waah, they couldn't get a discount on their already discounted tickets? poor widdle baby. I know. This story and the complainers involved get more repulsive as more details emerge. Talk about a lack of self-awareness.

Edgy MD May 29 2013 12:47 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

metsmarathon wrote: yeah, its a crying shame that the friends and family of highly paid professional athletes have to pay the same prices as those ordinary untalented plebes who are often lucky to make a tenth of the least of their salaries to watch them play a child's game. they should totally get more free stuff. because they're special. More importantly, they should get more tax relief.

G-Fafif May 29 2013 12:57 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

batmagadanleadoff wrote: secret ticket website for players Undercover Website Cloaked in mystery When you play baseball Everything should be free

Edgy MD May 29 2013 01:07 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

[list]I said, "Wha'?" I said, "Box seats for free!" I said, "ALL RIGHT!" Scalp me, scalp me, scalp me![/list:u] Seriously, how has no bitter ex-spouse spilled the URL and password info?

Ceetar May 29 2013 02:10 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

The friends and family of the players go in the entrance next to the player lot roughly where first base is if you're ever looking to stalk Actually, the players go in there too. Saw a Reds(or Cubs? who remembers) player go in there last year at like 3:30 pm. Whoever it was must've taken the 7 train in from Manhattan though.

Mets – Willets Point May 29 2013 02:15 PM Re: Scalped Yankees

Edgy MD wrote: Seriously, how has no bitter ex-spouse spilled the URL and password info? Sounds like an episode of Baseball Wives.