I saw yesterday in Larry Brooks' column in the New York Post that Madison Square Garden informed season-ticket holders in the 400 level Blue Seats that should the NY Rangers make it to the Stanley Cup Finals they can expect to pay $150 per ticket--exactly five times what it cost during the regular season. WTF?
Granted the ticket price increase went up for all seats in the Garden. I'm sure the corporate seast down by the glass increased. But why do I give a shit about MetLife's costs going up?
But the Blue Seats--where the truest, loudest, and rowdiest fans seat--is the best ticket in town. $30. Can't beat it. Because the Garden's sight lines are very good from the Blue Seats, it's the best value in NY. Especially for a sporting event.
Bleacher seats in Yankee Stadium may be cheaper, but good luck enjoying the view point from there. It's only a million miles to homeplate. Plus, you have to enter a separate entrance for the bleachers. You're not even connected to the Stadium!
Now, greed takes over. The Dolan-led Cablevision--which owns the Garden--has to squeeze every dollar from the fan. I've read before that a home playoff game means about $1 million to the Garden. So you know that greed is driving things here. Sad. Because the Knicks--the Garden's other Winter tenant--are in such disarray, the playoffs (and the $1 million per home game) are out of the question. It's like the Ranger fans are paying the freight for the woeful Knicks.
In the end, it may not matter. The Rangers make it to the NHL Finals as often as NBC cranks out compelling TV shows these days.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
Makes one think that MSG wants Rangers' fans to pay the Knicks' fans portion of the Garden mortgage.
you got that right.
Yo Daily
Mike and the Maddog talking hockey today on the fan. I wanna throw up. It's like listening to you and Deech evaluating this years Wimbledon. Francessa saying tonights a must game for the Islanders, gee thanks Mike, I appreciate that top notch insight....
Mark forgive me but doesn't "Maddog" contain a hyphen ?
Mad-Dog
Mike and the Maddog were at Nassau Coliseum and they spent the first segment talking Favre and the Mets injury woes. What a joke...
Last week, when evaluating both Rangers and The Islanders Russo went right to Goals Against and Goals For. Like that's some barometer of success. Why both?
And the mispronunciations? The Islander goalie is DiPietro not DiPieto. That's an easy one.
Usher made me miss the 1st goal due to confusion with patrons from section 325 who's seats were occupied by someone else
Rangers schedule
Post a Comment