Thought: On 2010 Tickets
We all know that it has been a rough three seasons for the Mets.
However, it’s hard for me to argue with what the club has done to try and make amends.
I can’t tell you that the team is going to be better from a performance stand point, nor can I tell you the team will avoid any drama from this point forward.
But what I can tell you is that the team has not just reduced ticket prices for the 2010 season, but for me and many other fans, we have seen a reduction in costs for the second season in a row.
In 2008, my full season ticket invoice for my two seats in Upper Box section 19, box 773A was for $5455, and the payment was due in full sometime in December if I can recollect correctly.
Fearing that the price of the two seats would be well over $6000 for 2009, my group was already resigned to the fact that 2008 was the last one as season ticket holders.
However, when I received the call in August, 2008 about my new seats at Citi Field, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my prices were actually dropping for 2009.
Significantly at that.
The calculated net savings for my two seats, which are now closer to home plate in the Promenade at Citi Field, was $1300 over 2008, or 24 percent, down to $4105.
For 2010, those same two seats were invoiced at $3955, a net savings of $150, or 3.6 percent from 2009.
It still isn’t cheap, the reduction in price didn’t end up being that much, and my group has yet to decide on whether or not to commit to 2010, but I feel that something is better than nothing and this notion that the Mets are “liars”, as they have been painted by the New York Post here, is simply not true.
In fact, I am arguing that they have done right by many of their fans for two consecutive seasons now, as my two seats have come down in cost by a total of 27 percent since the 2008 season.




I agree. There are fans that seem to find any excuse to berate the team they supposedly love. This is why I try to theme my blog in a positive light. to counter-act.
More important to me than the season ticket price (of which I can’t afford and have no one to go with that would anyway..but I may look into a plan again for next year)
is that supposedly their will be less Gold priced games, which makes the average game cheaper as well.
Presumably, since the Mets never actually offer a discount on season tickets and just charge you 81 games, this means there will be a couple of sections a little cheaper, ones that i might be willing to check out. The outer Ceasers club and the Met/Baseline boxes for example.