Tickets Thread 2013

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If sitting's not your thing, you can buy Mets opening day SRO's for $45 a [crossout]seat[/crossout] stand. http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130329&content_id=43488346&vkey=pr_nym&c_id=nym Mets Press Release 3/29/2013 12:12 P.M. ET Mets release standing room only tickets for Opening Day at Citi Field Standing room only tickets cost $45 and are on sale now at Mets.com, (718) 507-TIXX and Citi Field Ticket Windows Mets to open 2013 season this Monday, April 1 at 1:10 p.m. fans are encouraged to take mass transit FLUSHING, N.Y., � The New York Mets today announced the club released a limited supply of standing room only tickets for Opening Day at Citi Field. Standing room only tickets cost $45 and are on sale now at Mets.com, (718) 507-TIXX and the Citi Field Ticket Windows. The Mets open the 2013 season this Monday, April 1 against the San Diego Padres at 1:10 p.m. The Mets encourage fans to take mass transit to the game. Parking is limited as Cirque du Soleil�s TOTEM is currently in production in the Citi Field parking lots, although there will be no performance on Opening Day to accommodate as many fans as possible. Citi Field is served by the 7 train and the Long Island Rail Road. For fans traveling from the northern suburbs, Metro North trains and the Port Authority Bus Terminal connect with the 7 train. For more information, visit mta.info and click on �Take the Train to the Game.�

But why stand when you can still sit?

Mets' streak of sellouts on Opening Day is in jeopardy

The Mets' streak of 14 straight Opening Day sellouts is in jeopardy of ending on Monday when they start the season against the San Diego Padres. The Mets, however, say they are only a few thousand tickets shy of a sellout and remain optimistic they will pack the house. On the team's website Thursday, tickets were still available throughout most of Citi Field for Monday's game. Still, the team says it is closer to a sellout this year than at the same time last year. The Mets reached a 42,080-ticket sellout last season in part because they benefited from "a tremendous walk-up," according to David Newman, the Mets' senior vice president of marketing and communications. The last time the Mets did not sell out their first home game was 1998, when they drew an announced crowd of 48,142, about 5,000 less than Shea Stadium's capacity. In 1997, they drew only 21,981 to their opener. Meanwhile, in the Bronx, the Yankees say their streak of 17 straight Opening Day sellouts will reach 18 when they open against the Boston Red Sox at the same time as the Mets' home opener. However, sales for the second and third games of the season -- against the Red Sox Wednesday and Thursday night -- are "slightly off" pace from last season at this time, Yankees director of media relations Jason Zillo said. But he said last year the Yankees' second and third games fell on the weekend when ticket sales in April are typically higher. The last time the Yankees did not sell out their first home game of the season was 1995, which marked the return of baseball after the players strike of 1994 canceled the World Series. The Mets are coming off a season in which they drew a total of 2,242,803 fans to Citi Field, their lowest total in a decade. They have been trying to boost ticket sales for Opening Day -- and beyond -- with a flurry of special offers, including one in which fans receive a free ticket to another game during the first homestand with the purchase of each Opening Day ticket. It is similar to deals they offered last year, too. "We've had some special online offers leading up to Opening Day similar to what we did last year," Newman said. "We found that people responded to it in terms of the offers." The least expensive ticket for Opening Day on the Mets' website, as of Thursday, was $50 for an upper deck seat. But that could change as Opening Day gets closer because of the Mets' dynamic pricing system, which is designed to alter the price of tickets in real-time to fall more in line with the current demand.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/mets-streak-of-sellouts-on-opening-day-is-in-jeopardy-1.4932128

[Farmer Ted]

I actually enjoy standing in the Pepsi Porch area, leaning against the rail or grabbing a hi-top. No biggie unless it's very windy up there.

$45, however, should come with a complimentary reach around.

[Ceetar]

Farmer Ted wrote: I actually enjoy standing in the Pepsi Porch area, leaning against the rail or grabbing a hi-top. No biggie unless it's very windy up there. $45, however, should come with a complimentary reach around.

or a summer afternoon because you melt.

I like to stand above the RF scoreboard myself, just next to the entrance to the porch or the Excelsior level. I call it the Shea subway view.

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Injuries May Affect Ticket Sales of Openers
By KEN BELSON
Published: March 30, 2013

The local forecast on Monday calls for a high near 60 degrees with a mix of sun and clouds. Not bad for fans heading to Yankee Stadium and Citi Field as the Yankees and the Mets open their seasons simultaneously in New York for the first time. But these are not, after all, the best of times for the Yankees or the Mets, something that is reflected in the market for tickets. The Yankees will take the field on Monday without the injured Derek Jeter, Curtis Granderson, Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez. The Mets will be without Johan Santana, who is probably out for the season with a torn shoulder capsule, and without any real expectations of competing for a playoff spot this season. The Yankees said through a spokesman Friday that they were expecting a sellout for Monday�s 1 p.m. opener against the Boston Red Sox. The Mets, through their spokesman, did not go that far, saying, �Ticket sales are tracking with last year�s pace for opening day, and we are optimistic for a sellout.� The Mets generally sell out on opening day, and they are trying to do it again despite the fact that they have not had a winning season since 2008. Ticket representatives have been calling fans in their database, trying to persuade them to come to the game � even if the fans can�t name anyone on the low-wattage San Diego Padres, the Mets� opponent Monday at 1 p.m. The Mets have also sent e-mails offering fans a free ticket to a second game next week if they buy a ticket to opening day. �Opening day may be on April Fools� Day this year, but we�ve got an offer that�s no joke,� the team said in one message. The Mets also took out newspaper ads this week to remind fans that both New York teams are opening at home on Monday, not just the more glamorous Yankees. Meanwhile, the average price of tickets being resold online for both games is dropping. The average ticket price for the Yankees-Red Sox game was $191.23 on Friday, a 21 percent decline from two weeks ago, according to TiqIQ, which tracks the resale market. The average ticket price for the Mets-Padres contest was $139.80, a 14 percent drop since mid-March. It is not unusual for ticket prices to decline as games approach because fans reselling their tickets often overprice them initially. Still, declines of more than 10 percent in the two weeks before a big game are infrequent, Jesse Lawrence, the founder of TiqIQ, said. �I would have to think that lower expectations on the field this year for both teams is definitely pushing opening day prices down lower than usual,� he said. According to FanSnap.com, more than 3,300 tickets were being resold online for the Mets game, including some for as little as $45, which is below face value. On Friday, the team said it would also sell a limited number of standing-room-only tickets to the opener for $45. Despite compiling another losing record last year, the Mets raised single-game ticket prices for nearly every seating category this season. The least expensive single-game ticket for opening day is $63, 75 percent more than a year ago. As for the Yankees, more than 4,000 opening day tickets were being offered for resale, including some as low as $65, according to FanSnap.com. In the off-season, the Yankees opted out of baseball�s deal with StubHub, the country�s largest ticket reseller, and instead chose to work with Ticketmaster. The Yankees have blamed StubHub for driving down prices and making it harder for the team to sell tickets. The Yankees, like the Mets, are also using e-mail. They have sent out messages advertising $5 tickets to midweek games against the low-profile Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/sports/baseball/status-of-yankees-and-mets-may-affect-ticket-sales-of-openers.html

[Fman99]

Fboy and I officially have tickets for Saturday, 6/29 1 PM matinee vs. the Nats at Citi Field. (Fwife and Fgirl are staying home and hosting my sister in law's wedding shower).

It's a Syracuse University alumni day -- there's a charter bus from the SU campus, so my son and I will be in transit all day but at least I won't have to spend 11 hours driving to see a game.

I saw Soupcan posted the SU info on his FB page -- not sure if you're also planning on attending that day. We're sitting in the Big Apple reserved section in right center, Fboy will be excited to sit in fair territory and the (remote though it may be) possibility of catching a HR ball.

[Guest themetfairy]

If anyone has one extra ticket for Saturday's game, PLMK. My plans for the weekend have crumbled, and I'm seriously considering taking myself to the matinee.

Thanks.