Tickets…or Lack Thereof
It’s amazing how many people have asked about the lack of Red Sox tickets for the public. One obvious solution is to build a new ball park with 60,000+ seats as had been discussed in the past. This for true Fenway Park fans is not an option – how could we live without our historic, unique home? I do believe the current owners have done a great job in adding seats to Fenway with the Monster seats, Right Field roof deck and upgrades to the EMC and State Street Pavilion. I hope that by working with their planners, they can find ways to add even more seats. Of course we must assume those seats will probably be expensive and as hard to get as Monster seats, so that’s not a great solution. Maybe they can add onto the bleachers and keep the price low. I don’t know how the tickets are sold, but I think there needs to be some lottery or fair method of allocating tickets at the start of the season for non-season ticket holders. If they can find a way to stop ticket agents from getting huge blocks of tickets, that may help.
Here is where my Economics degree from Franklin and Marshall College is finally coming in handy. Unfortunately, the bottom line is that as long as we’re in Fenway with limited seating capacity, and as long as the Red Sox fan base continues to grow, supply and demand principles will rule. There will always be a scarcity of tickets. It really hit home to me while watching the Toronto series and seeing how many empty seats they had…you’d NEVER see that at Fenway!
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Cindy,
You are so right that it would not be our beloved Fenway Park if we had a 60,000+ stadium! There is nothing better than always seeing a full house of great fans when the game is on and we are playing at home! I think all the other cities wish they had the wonderful fans that the sox have, just look at how many fans you see at all the away games! Keep it going girl, I mean future president of Red Sox Nation!!
David
I agree – Fenway should stay Fenway and try to be one of the few stadiums who stays true to itself. A lottery system seems very fair. For those die hard fans who just cannot afford to pay the high prices, there HAS to be a way to thank them for their dedication and support to their favorite Boston sports team. Where would the Sox be without their fans? Good luck Madame President!!
Well, I suggest you think of a plan or two. This is the number one, emotional issue amongst those who attend games at Fenway and who don’t generally have access to tickets. I learned this in my own campaign.
And I dared to address it in my campaign and came up with a plan.
Rob C did have a plan that I liked as well. But he’s the only one left who has given this any thought , and has come up with some plan.
Best wishes
Greg
Cindy, availability of tickets seems to be a major concern among the fans. Cannot Management NOT sell blocks of tickets to wholesalers, or at least limit the number of tickets that they allocate? I would think that with the huge demand and limited supply of non-season held tickets, the Sox could, via their web site, sell every available ticket for every home game. Addressing the issue of having tickets available to kids who might not otherwise get to go to a game, I think that a fool-proof system is needed. Amazing as it seems, not every kid wants to go to a game, and I have been at Fenway and watched kids who do nothing but squirm in their seats, wait for every food vender to come by, fall asleep, and do anything but actually watch the game. You would have to somehow determine which kids would truly be awestruck by the Fenway experience, and then look for them in programs for disadvantaged,or at risk, or foster kids, etc. I understand that the Management does have programs in place that address this situation with kids, so maybe it just needs to be publicized and or tweeked a bit.Good luck in your candidacy. You have the heart of a real fan!!
Cindy, I hope you come up with a good solution for distribution of tickets. It’s a big problem
Wishing you the best in your run for President from a Red Sox family dating back more than seventy years.
Exactly my point, folks. That was the number one issue in my campaign. One doesn’t need a degree in economics to understand the concept of supply and demand, and to know that the supply itself cannot be increased – it is a matter of DISTRIBUTION of available inventory.
But I think we should hear more than “I don’t know what can be done.” Cindy, feel free to go to my blog, which is still up – section15.mlblogs.com , and take a look at my ideas. You can use them.
I love the old parks and would hate to see Fenway torn down. When a team is winning there are never enough seats. Joan M.
Cindy…I live in Ct..though born & raised in NY for over 50 years! PLEASE use the “new” Yankee Stadium nonsense as an example.Many NY fans DO NOT Want a new stadium. Whatever happened to the very wise quotation “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”?
Leave Fenway alone! Improve access, parking etc but save that fabulous landmark for the
fans, both new & old, who made the fabulous Sox who they are!.
Cindy, the allure of Fenway is so powerful, and it allows generations of fans to experience what their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, etc… got to experience. I have no doubt you’d analyze ticket distribution channels and have some solid proposals for improvement. Good luck with your campaign, you’d make a great president!
I think that it would be more fair to the fans if the gen’l partners of the Red Sox didn’t buy up most of the dugout box seats, as well as EMC club, and pavillion box seats. They then sell them on Red Sox Replay, or to ticket brokers. HOW MUCH MONEY DO THEY NEED> THEY ARE ACTUALLY “SCALPING TICKETS”. I would suggest boycotting games until ownership divulges the tickets they actually own, and resell.