Another reason it's better to be a Mets fan

[bmfc1]

The MFYs have minimized their relationship with StubHub and are not allowing their ticket holders to print tickets at home. They say it's to "combat fraud":
http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/02/17/the-yankees-escalate-their-war-on-stubhub/

Let Lonn Trost explain further:
http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2016/02/18/yankees-coo-lonn-trost-gives-a-snobby-and-elitist-explanation-for-new-ticket-polcities/

Why doesn't he ask Trump to build a wall around the high priced seats to keep the rest of us out?

Edited February 18, 2016 by Guest

[batmagadanleadoff]

I don't know that this makes it better to be a Mets fan. Maybe for now. I'm worried that the Mets'll follow suit.

This is mainly about getting rid of competitors so that the team can sell their available stock at a higher price, right?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Stub Hub will get nothing AND LIKE IT

[Benjamin Grimm]

I feel bad for Ticket Oak.

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: Why doesn't he ask Trump to build a wall around the high priced seats to keep the rest of us out?

Take a look next time you see a game there (on TV of course) there's already a virtual moat at YSIII (minus only the water and alligators) which serves as a separation between the super-expensive sections from the rest of the unwashed masses, so they don't even need Trump or his Mexican-built wall.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This is mainly about getting rid of competitors so that the team can sell their available stock at a higher price, right?

Sure. Nothing pisses off a sports team more than jacked-up prices on the secondary market ... that they don't get a piece of!!

[Ceetar]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: This is mainly about getting rid of competitors so that the team can sell their available stock at a higher price, right?

Yes, basically. They started this last year, or the year before I think. They've been going back and forth but it stemmed from Stub Hub's lower minimum sale price as compared to Ticketmaster.

This will mainly hurt the non-smartphone friendly older crowd that still knows enough to buy a ticket on StubHub and print it. Otherwise it's mostly just an added inconvenience to get a ticket to the game. (You know, besides it being the Bronx, the Yankees, no parking, a long subway ride and a miserable fanbase and a mall of a stadium)

[Frayed Knot]

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Apparently this sign, which greets MFY players this year at the spring training complex, applies only to players and not to management.

[MFS62]

Do they see this before or after the no gambling sign? Or did this one replace it?
The best sign to motivate their players would be the anti-Major League approach.
They start with a naked picture of Suzyn Waldmann and put a small piece of clothing on it with every victory.

Later

[dgwphotography]

MFS62 wrote: Do they see this before or after the no gambling sign? Or did this one replace it? The best sign to motivate their players would be the anti-Major League approach. They start with a naked picture of Suzyn Waldmann and put a small piece of clothing on it with every victory. Later

This makes me think of, "It looks like I have Oscar Gamble in a leg lock, in fact."

Damn you F-Man...

[nymr83]

Frayed Knot wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: This is mainly about getting rid of competitors so that the team can sell their available stock at a higher price, right? Sure. Nothing pisses off a sports team more than jacked-up prices on the secondary market ... that they don't get a piece of!!

I actually read that the move is not to combat jacked-up prices but rather to protect the face value of tickets - StubHub lets you list tickets cheaply while Yankee-Partner Ticketmaster wont let you go below face value, thus protecting the Yankees' own unsold tickets from being undercut on the market.

[Fman99]

dgwphotography wrote: MFS62 wrote: Do they see this before or after the no gambling sign? Or did this one replace it? The best sign to motivate their players would be the anti-Major League approach. They start with a naked picture of Suzyn Waldmann and put a small piece of clothing on it with every victory. Later This makes me think of, "It looks like I have Oscar Gamble in a leg lock, in fact." Damn you F-Man...

It's not me. It's Suzyn. She's incorrigible.