The Lottery: Red Sox Execs Must Be Stoned
I wasn't surprised when I received my redsox.com email about the ticket lottery coming up, but I sure wasn't happy. I opened the email to find that I have to enter a lottery to win the opportunity to purchase Yankees tickets, green monster seats, and right field roof-box seats. Super. Three lotteries, or more accurately it seems, one lottery where I can win ONE of the above prizes. What's going on?
Now of course I've already done this, but it's ridiculous. They say that the lottery is to allow more fans the opportunity to see these games and get these seats. That it's only fair. Here's the thing: Baseball tickets are not about fair. It's not about letting new fans experience yankees games. It's about letting REAL fans CONTINUE to experience yankees games. It's about waking up and calling the Sox ticket number at 9:45 because the box office opens at 10 and the
clocks might not match up exactly. It's about using 4 phones, 3 computers, and a carrier pigeon to try and get through. AND IT WAS AWESOME WHEN YOU FINALLY DID GET THROUGH! It was a natural high, knowing that you had been rewarded. That you had earned those tickets. Now it's about a raffle. Where were the new fans in '93 when Carlos Quintana was at first and Jack Clark was our slugger? Or in '95 when I got excited about FRANK VIOLA coming to the team? I saw the Yankees beat the Red Sox when Tony Pena was trying to block the plate and Mike Greenwell wasn't asking to be traded from left field. Why do we have to win a lottery to see them now that they're good?
I'm making this complaint from Seattle, so it's not even about me. It's about all the fans like me who put in their time and I now hear mumbling, "I hope they do horribly this one year so that we lose the bandwagon fans and it's possible to get tickets again." That's not right.
GO SOX,
Witz
Now of course I've already done this, but it's ridiculous. They say that the lottery is to allow more fans the opportunity to see these games and get these seats. That it's only fair. Here's the thing: Baseball tickets are not about fair. It's not about letting new fans experience yankees games. It's about letting REAL fans CONTINUE to experience yankees games. It's about waking up and calling the Sox ticket number at 9:45 because the box office opens at 10 and the
clocks might not match up exactly. It's about using 4 phones, 3 computers, and a carrier pigeon to try and get through. AND IT WAS AWESOME WHEN YOU FINALLY DID GET THROUGH! It was a natural high, knowing that you had been rewarded. That you had earned those tickets. Now it's about a raffle. Where were the new fans in '93 when Carlos Quintana was at first and Jack Clark was our slugger? Or in '95 when I got excited about FRANK VIOLA coming to the team? I saw the Yankees beat the Red Sox when Tony Pena was trying to block the plate and Mike Greenwell wasn't asking to be traded from left field. Why do we have to win a lottery to see them now that they're good?
I'm making this complaint from Seattle, so it's not even about me. It's about all the fans like me who put in their time and I now hear mumbling, "I hope they do horribly this one year so that we lose the bandwagon fans and it's possible to get tickets again." That's not right.
GO SOX,
Witz
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Witz at 4:34 PM
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