Hey Mike great post. In addition to all the loicgal reasoning behind your decision, it really comes through in the post how much you enjoyed and will miss the Sunday games. But, it also sounds like it hasn’t been the same since the move to the new ballpark. Someone called into the radio station earlier this week absolutely ripping the Yankees while sharing that he was also dropping his season ticket plan after 20+ years. He hit on many of the same points, albeit not in the same detail you provided. Other calls followed. I’ve heard the Yankees have lost a lot of season ticket holders for 2013. Just as the sabermetrics guys build these teams with stats and data, the same mold of metrics people on the business side of the operation (people who do what I do) are crunching the numbers and building various scenarios to minimize cost and maximize profits. Sometimes business people make these decisions in a vacuum, without considering all the downstream impacts both internal and to the customer and the decisions backfire (i.e. New Coke ). Or they do understand all the impacts .and simply don’t care. I wonder which one it is. I try to go to one or two games a year I buy the tickets online for a fraction of the face value and I take the train. It’s not a bad experience. Let’s go to a game this year.
Hey Mike great post. In addition to all the loicgal reasoning behind your decision, it really comes through in the post how much you enjoyed and will miss the Sunday games. But, it also sounds like it hasn’t been the same since the move to the new ballpark. Someone called into the radio station earlier this week absolutely ripping the Yankees while sharing that he was also dropping his season ticket plan after 20+ years. He hit on many of the same points, albeit not in the same detail you provided. Other calls followed. I’ve heard the Yankees have lost a lot of season ticket holders for 2013. Just as the sabermetrics guys build these teams with stats and data, the same mold of metrics people on the business side of the operation (people who do what I do) are crunching the numbers and building various scenarios to minimize cost and maximize profits. Sometimes business people make these decisions in a vacuum, without considering all the downstream impacts both internal and to the customer and the decisions backfire (i.e. New Coke ). Or they do understand all the impacts .and simply don’t care. I wonder which one it is. I try to go to one or two games a year I buy the tickets online for a fraction of the face value and I take the train. It’s not a bad experience. Let’s go to a game this year.