I just got the inevitable email I knew was coming — I did not get selected to purchase tickets to the Mets first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Here’s the message from the Mets:
THANK YOU FOR REGISTERING FOR YOUR POSTSEASON PURCHASE OPPORTUNITY
Thank you for your registration at Mets.com for the potential opportunity to purchase tickets to potential 2015 National League Wild Card and National League Division Series Games at Citi Field. Unfortunately, your entry was not selected.
Your entry will continue to be included in any additional random selections that take place throughout the postseason. You can still secure your seats for all potential 2015 postseason games at Citi Field by placing a deposit on a 2016 ticket plan. For more 2015 postseason information please visit mets.com/postseason.
When the Mets put out the chance to ensure tickets to all games, I, along with many other non-wealthy Mets’ fans, was unable to afford to buy an entire strip. I just don’t have the availability on my credit card, and I refuse to open another one to go to every single game. This whole process is so flawed.
It makes you seem like everyone has a fair chance, but thousands of tickets end up in the hands of scalpers, and when all is said and done, fans won’t be able to get tickets off the secondary market for less than $200 a pop, and that’s a conservative estimate.
It’s so sad, because, by the end of the season, I will have attended 13 or so home games, which should warrant at least an opportunity to purchase tickets, but I did not buy a gigantic pack, so I was promptly left out in the cold.
There are worse things than staying home and watching with friends and family, but at least for the first round, odds are I won’t be there in person, and that in itself is very disappointing.
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