Mets tickets this week cost less than Shea hot dogs
Here's the great thing about capitalism that you have to keep in mind when lamenting the cost of sports tickets on the secondary market:
It cuts both ways. Supply and demand and all that jazz.
Right now on StubHub there are many tickets available to the Mets' games against the Padres tonight and tomorrow afternoon for a cool $3 a piece.
So three people can attend the game, share a beer and still have change from a $20 bill (not counting whatever service charges StubHub slaps onto the cost)!
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You would pay $18.30 for a single $3 ticket. (10% + $15 per order). It's a better deal for multiple tickets. ($24.90 for 3)
Of course, the beers are now $8.50 or so at Shea.
Neil - four things:
1. I can walk to your alma mater from my house. Will they ever name a wing after you?
2. Any progress on getting us the page view totals?
3. Does YES have any plans - short-term or long-term - to start a radio network? It would be a big winner, for sure.
4. Last night with Damon up Sterling went into his homerun call, then reversed course and said the ball was caught, then reversed himself again and said the ball was off the wall. Waldman then make excuses for Sterling's getting it wrong. At the end of the inning, Sterling announced the Yankees were winning, 4-1 and then had to reverse himself again and say it was actually Texas winning, 4-1. Why are "they" doing this to us? I am a die-hard Yankee fan who can't take listening to games on the radio.
1. Have a beer at the Chapter House for me.
2. No.
3. Um . . . haven't heard that.
4. Become a Mets fan!
I think the unofficial chapter house is probably Napper Tandys. Will do tomorrow night, although I myself am graduated from JG HS up the block many moons ago.
Neil, think Page Views.
I thought you meant my college alma mater, not my high school alma mater!!! In that case, by all means, Napper Tandys is an excellent choice. Ask for the Guiness with the clover in the head.
Cornell? Me? Oh, no. My degrees came from lowly SUNY Stony Brook. I'm not an Ivy Leaguer like you. That's why you work for powerful Newsday and I am just one of those greedy teachers.
Nothing like capitalism to demonstrate the worth of a baseball team, in this case the Mets lowly opponent, the Padres.
CC: You should tell WatchDog Nation about how you met your lovely bride at the Murph! At least I think I remember that's where you met her . . .
The Murph?
Well, I'm think I'm one up on Charlie Koot's.
His sounds too cute.
Met mine at the ORIGINAL (the old Fancy Moose) Whitekey's Fly By Nite Club on the shores of Lake Hood...(or was it Lake Spenard? Or both? I always got confused by that).
I'll put my story up against his.
(It occurred during hilarious hour on a Friday afternoon when I had just come from spring thaw dog (4) dung detail and the garbage dump). There is MUCH more to this, however.
Eau du Spenard?
Any story about meeting a future spouse at Whitekey's is bound to be much more interesting. And my story is centered around a Padres loss to the Giants, so what else is new?
Our wedding was in April of long ago, so our anniversary dinners out are usually to a restaurant with a TV that I can also watch baseball, what with all the early season activities and such (the Pads are not yet 10 games back). When she complains, I remind her of where we met.