The
New York Yankees are the best team money can buy. Let me clarify that, I’m not
saying they’re the best team lately… What I am saying is that they buy all
their players instead of trying to make the team balanced. There are five
players on the roster that have contracts that are 100 million dollars or more.
Trust me the Yankees have plenty of money, but sometimes they complain about
the worst problems and then they use their Yankee muscles to put a new policy
in place.
Since the Yankees don’t make enough money on tickets
they felt they had to screw a bunch of fans that can’t already afford tickets by
making it impossible for them to buy tickets now. The Yankees announced on
Wednesday that the fans could no longer print out their tickets from their
house for the 2016 season. I understand what the Yankees are trying to do
because they want to stop ticket fraud and stop people from being scammed out
of their hard earned money. That argument is a good one, but there is another
side of the argument everybody is missing. Could the Yankees be trying to
remove the secondary market so people don’t go and buy premium tickets for a
lot less on sites like StubHub and Ticketmaster? Yankees COO Lonn Trost was on
WFAN Thursday echoing this sentiment giving his opinion on the issue by saying,
“The
problem below market at a certain point is that if you buy a ticket in a very
premium location and pay a substantial amount of money. It's not that we don't
want that fan to sell it, but that fan is sitting there having paid a
substantial amount of money for a ticket and [another] fan picks it up for a
buck-and-a-half and sits there, and it's frustrating to the purchaser of the
full amount. And quite frankly, the fan may be someone who has never sat in a
premium location. So that's a frustration to our existing fan base.” So let me
get this straight… you’re trying to penalize the fans that manage to find a
great deal over the fans that spent more money. If you really want to go to a
big time event you need to figure how to get the best value for your buck. Are
you going to spend five hundred dollars plus ridiculous fees the Yankees add on,
or are you going to go to StubHub and buy tickets for two hundred dollars with
practically no fees? It’s just the Yankees being the Yankees.
One
more important issue that the Yankees are forgetting about is getting the younger
fans to the games. The average family of four can’t afford to go to a game
anymore because of these tickets prices. Also, don’t forget that you can’t
afford a bottle of water or food because everything is overpriced at Yankee
Stadium. What is happening is that those families are staying home and watching
the games on their HD TV’s in the comfort of their own home not fighting the
elements. You’re alienating the fans and now they are going to go to fewer
games because you are making it more difficult to purchase the tickets. I have
one solution that could fix this issue… it is to LOWER THE PRICES!!!! If you
made the tickets more affordable then people wouldn’t go to secondary markets.
By the way, rather then come up with a solution lets just take it away and
punish the fans. The Yankees like to make a statement when they make a decision
and right now they are the only team deciding to go against Stubhub and
Ticketmaster and make a scene.
In
the long run more people are watching baseball on their TV’s and if they are
going to do stupid crap like this to piss off the fans then you might as well
kiss the fans goodbye. If you have enough money to be the highest payroll in
MLB and own your own network then you can afford to lower your ticket prices so
fans can have a great experience. Fewer kids are able to go to games cause
their parents can’t afford it and they have to say, “sorry kids we can’t afford
to go let’s watch on TV instead”.
I give credit to Chris Cwik for
writing this story about exposing the Yankees for being difficult and
inconsiderate to fans. We need to get the message out that their other
important things in life besides money. All the Yankees care about is money and
not about the fans and this is why the Yankees are, “The Best Team Money Can
Buy”.
Here is the link to Chris Cwik’s
story:
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