Yankees to fight sagging attendance by eliminating StubHub print at home tickets

[Just like bruddas]

Baseball is a ca. Sport...like hockey

 

[Ms. Elaine]

Baseball is a ca. Sport...like hockey

Not true. Not even close.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Say you’re a Yankees fan, and you decide you want to duck out of work early and go to a shytty Twins-Yankees game on a Wednesday afternoon in August. There are tickets available for $19 on StubHub, but they are selling for face value on Ticketmaster, which will deliver an electronic ticket to your phone. You can’t get in with a PDF ticket, so unless you can figure out a way to get the StubHub seller’s physical tickets in your hands within a few hours, you’re stuck paying full price on Ticketmaster. You’ve been boned.

gonna look like the Mel Hall days in there

So here's what's gonna happen my breh. Jerry did this with the Cowboys and AT&T stadium towards the end of '14 or start of '15. If you're intending to sell your tix, you simply request hard copy tickets. Ticketmaster can't deny this request.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Baseball is a ca. Sport...like hockey

Is football a CAC sport? BC Jerry Jones did this first.

 

[Raw Lyrics]

Someone posted this on SBNation...hilarious:

Somewhere on the Upper East Side...


MUFFY (mother): How was the Yankee’s baseball contest, sweet Thropie? I trust your seats were satisfactory?

WILTHROP (10 year old boy): Oh, mummy, it was fine, I guess. [Casts eyes toward the ground]

MUFFY: My heavens, whatever could have put such a damper on your evening? Those tickets were the finest one could purchase. A premium location.

WILTHROP: I was excited to witness Mr. Alexander Rodriguez’s accomplishment of his 700th home run, but I do say the man sitting next to us was wearing [leans in and lowers voice to a whisper as gentle tears well up in his blue eyes] a T-Shirt and dungarees.

MUFFY: Dungarees! My word! [Begins to fans herself]

DANSBOROUGH (middle aged Butler who took Wilthrop to game): The boy is being brave; it was worse than he describes, Madam. The dungarees were roughly fashioned into short pants and had something called "cargo pockets" on each respective side of said short pants.

MUFFY: Short pants? Was this person a child?

DANSBOROUGH: No madam; he was of labouring age and vaguely ethnic; perhaps continental Spanish.

MUFFY: [Faints]

{END SCENE}

Insert inspirational quote or witty quip here.

 

[the cool]

I just eat before I go inside.

At most, I spend $20 between a Dippin Dots, Garlic Fries and a souvenir cup. $30 if my dumb ass didn't eat beforehand. Otherwise, I just sneak in candy and wait it out and eat like a bawse after the game is over.

#GuyCode

 

[Tommy Fits]

Someone posted this on SBNation...hilarious:

Somewhere on the Upper East Side...


MUFFY (mother): How was the Yankee’s baseball contest, sweet Thropie? I trust your seats were satisfactory?

WILTHROP (10 year old boy): Oh, mummy, it was fine, I guess. [Casts eyes toward the ground]

MUFFY: My heavens, whatever could have put such a damper on your evening? Those tickets were the finest one could purchase. A premium location.

WILTHROP: I was excited to witness Mr. Alexander Rodriguez’s accomplishment of his 700th home run, but I do say the man sitting next to us was wearing [leans in and lowers voice to a whisper as gentle tears well up in his blue eyes] a T-Shirt and dungarees.

MUFFY: Dungarees! My word! [Begins to fans herself]

DANSBOROUGH (middle aged Butler who took Wilthrop to game): The boy is being brave; it was worse than he describes, Madam. The dungarees were roughly fashioned into short pants and had something called "cargo pockets" on each respective side of said short pants.

MUFFY: Short pants? Was this person a child?

DANSBOROUGH: No madam; he was of labouring age and vaguely ethnic; perhaps continental Spanish.

MUFFY: [Faints]

{END SCENE}

Insert inspirational quote or witty quip here.

 

[K-Apps]

StubHub clapping back:

 

[NYC Rebel]

Someone posted this on SBNation...hilarious:

Somewhere on the Upper East Side...


MUFFY (mother): How was the Yankee’s baseball contest, sweet Thropie? I trust your seats were satisfactory?

WILTHROP (10 year old boy): Oh, mummy, it was fine, I guess. [Casts eyes toward the ground]

MUFFY: My heavens, whatever could have put such a damper on your evening? Those tickets were the finest one could purchase. A premium location.

WILTHROP: I was excited to witness Mr. Alexander Rodriguez’s accomplishment of his 700th home run, but I do say the man sitting next to us was wearing [leans in and lowers voice to a whisper as gentle tears well up in his blue eyes] a T-Shirt and dungarees.

MUFFY: Dungarees! My word! [Begins to fans herself]

DANSBOROUGH (middle aged Butler who took Wilthrop to game): The boy is being brave; it was worse than he describes, Madam. The dungarees were roughly fashioned into short pants and had something called "cargo pockets" on each respective side of said short pants.

MUFFY: Short pants? Was this person a child?

DANSBOROUGH: No madam; he was of labouring age and vaguely ethnic; perhaps continental Spanish.

MUFFY: [Faints]

{END SCENE}

Insert inspirational quote or witty quip here.

Dansborough...........

 

[beanz]

Setting the stage for the mets to take over nyc with a world series run

Yankee fan tears

 

[Trip]

I mean we all kinda knew the Yanks operate around protecting the big time season ticket holders, but manipulating the secondary market to their own interests is the height of arrogance/ignorance.

 

[FaTaL]

StubHub clapping back:

How much that going to cost them though?

 

[K-Apps]

How much that going to cost them though?

Idk, but looks the Yankees are willing to work with StubHub now
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/2...fer-could-lead-to-an-accord-over-tickets.html

TAMPA, Fla. — The Yankees have not won a playoff game since 2012, and they spent the winter addressing this shortcoming in a very un-Boss-like manner, becoming the only team in baseball not to sign at least one free agent.

But on the business side, the Yankees are still adept at throwing their considerable weight around.

They did so last week when they announced they would no longer accept print-at-home tickets, instituting mobile ticketing along with standard hard-copy tickets — moves that could make it more cumbersome for buyers and sellers on the resale market who do not go through the Yankees’ ticket exchange.

Although the Yankees said the moves were to combat fraud, industry analysts and competitors saw the latest broadside against StubHub, which the Yankees have frequently accused of undercutting the value of their tickets, as another attempt by a professional sports franchise to seize control of the resale market.

After Lonn Trost, the Yankees’ chief operating officer, was lambasted as elitist for suggesting in a Thursday radio interview that some fans do not belong in premium seats, the team president, Randy Levine, in an interview Saturday, said StubHub had stoked the controversy, accusing it of putting out a narrative “that’s completely fraudulent and completely false.”

But he also offered an olive branch.

The Yankees, Levine said, would be willing to allow StubHub and other companies to unlock mobile tickets so they could be resold separate from the Yankees’ ticket exchange and without price floors.

“The bottom line is, we would work with ticket providers as long as we know they’re legitimate, doing it in the spirit of helping our ticket buyers,” Levine said. “But the ones I’ve talked to, including StubHub and SeatGeek, they don’t want to do that because they don’t want to spend the time and money.”

Glenn Lehrman, a spokesman for StubHub, welcomed the offer, which he said the company had not heard before.

“That is definitely news to us and definitely something we’d be interested in,” Lehrman said. “You’d be opening up a playing field and being given the opportunity to buy and sell tickets in an open marketplace, which is what we’re asking. All we would like is an opportunity to compete.”

If an accord is reached, it will end the latest dust-up between the Yankees and StubHub. Three years ago, the Yankees broke away from Major League Baseball’s partnership with StubHub to begin their own ticket exchange with Ticketmaster, then successfully sued StubHub to keep it from setting up operations within the shadow of Yankee Stadium and the Yankees’ spring training home in Tampa, Fla.

When the Yankees announced last Monday that they were no longer producing or accepting print at-home tickets and instituting mobile ticketing, ticket company officials and industry analysts said the only way to sell tickets outside the Yankees’ clearinghouse would be the old-fashioned way: exchanging hard-copy tickets from hand to hand.

This left StubHub considering partnerships with couriers, who would pick up and deliver tickets, something that could have been done last season with a couple of clicks on a laptop or phone, Lehrman said.

Levine reiterated the Yankees’ stance that protecting customers from fraud was the primary driver in their decision to discontinue print-at-home tickets. He cited two types: someone printing out multiple copies of the same ticket and doctoring a printout to change the row and seat numbers to fetch a higher price.

“Every game, we have serious, serious fraud,” Levine said. He added that StubHub agreed to pay the Yankees nearly $100,000 in fines last season for fraudulent tickets, of which about five or six per game were sold via StubHub. Jason Berger, the managing partner of AllShows.com and a past president of the National Association of Ticket Brokers, said fraud existed on some level with all ticketed events. But he said the Yankees’ initial approach was misguided and stemmed from their refusal to lower ticket prices since the new stadium opened in 2009.

“It’s like they are jumping over a dollar not to chase a dime, but to chase a penny,” Berger said. “The Yankees are cornering themselves: You can’t do this, you can’t do that, and tickets are more expensive. And look at the stadium — it’s half empty. The Yankees are losing the big picture of what drives fans to buy tickets.”

 

[stepbackj34spud]

Lol Yankee stadium will be a freaking ghost town

 

[FaTaL]

Idk, but looks the Yankees are willing to work with StubHub now
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/2...fer-could-lead-to-an-accord-over-tickets.html

Public pressure is a motha