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March 20, 2008
Will The Yankees Monkey With Full-Season Ticket Holders Next Season?
Richard Sandomir writes about the cost of seats in the new Yankee Stadium. (I wrote about it here, three days ago.) Sandomir's feature includes this:
The e-mail message from [Yanks COO] Trost asked all season-ticket holders if they wanted to upgrade to the deluxe offerings, “for which we have already received an enormous amount of unsolicited requests.” It also began the process of relocating season-ticket holders to similar locations in the new ballpark.
The team has the equivalent of 39,121 full season-ticket holders.
But Trost cautioned in his e-mail message that “the seat location and quantity of games included in all current ticket license plans are subject to change when you relocate to the new Yankee Stadium.” He said by telephone that he was not referring to the slightly smaller capacity of the new ballpark, but the variety of miniticket plans being sold.
Well, here's the interesting thing - in the Yankees letter that came to me, it clearly states:
"Please be aware that the seat location and quantity of games included in all current Ticket License Plans are subject to change when you relocate to the new Yankee Stadium."
...the seat location and quantity of games included in all current Ticket License Plans...
The letter says nothing about the "variety of miniticket plans being sold." It just says, like in the e-mail, the "quantity of games included in all current ticket license plans."
So, which is it when they talk about quantity changes? Is it the "variety of miniticket plans being sold" or is it the "quantity of games included in all current Ticket License Plans"?
Do you trust the official communication sent to ticket holders as a warning, or, will Trost's reported phone conversation stand up in a court of law? Oh, well, at the least, they're not talking about variable ticket prices...yet.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at March 20, 2008 11:27 PM