Comments on: Walk-up observations

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:02:53 +0000

Fenway was fun the one time I went there but I wouldn’t want to do it on a regular basis (impossible-at-the-time and expensive tickets, risk of obstructed views, know-it-all fans all around, drunken twenty-somethings throughout, etc.)

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:04:28 +0000

hencanfoos. Can’t agree with you there. Fenway since the renovations is just as good as all its emulators built since 1992.

By: LoneStranger

LoneStranger — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:47:20 +0000

@Chi- Actually, the park stayed pretty packed until the fireworks were over. I had a great vantage point from the last row in the Value Deck.

By: hecanfoos

hecanfoos — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:43:08 +0000

….something that will be better than Fenway

You ever been to a game in Boston? EVERY ballpark in MLB is better than Fenway. Just about everything about Fenway sucks.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:36:18 +0000

Actually the A’s are only averaging 19,636 coming up to the break. Games in Tokyo don’t count. Still puts them ahead of Cleveland however so there’s that.
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By: ACV

ACV — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:55:20 +0000

i was shocked at last nights low attendance but i know that tonight and tomorrow will be much higher. i think A’s will be averaging around 21,000 per game at the all star break

By: fc

fc — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:14:28 +0000

@A’sFan – LOL, +1

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 22:09:44 +0000

The asking about seeing stubhub. I logged on a couple hours before the game, there were on 2 tickets at all for last nights game at 59 a piece? With like 4,000 for the next day???

A couple years ago I noticed for the warriors on night when they were a few thousand under sellout. Upper bowl was half empty. That if you tried to buy the $10 tickets online or from ticket booth themselves they would say they were sold out in that section. Then during the game you would see like only 10 people in those 3 sections. It was like they would only release them after all the more expensive sections sold out.

By: A's Fan

A's Fan — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:58:38 +0000

@Dude were you talking about the Giants or the Red Sox?

By: Otter

Otter — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:50:41 +0000

@Lonestranger on the StubHub comment…

My experience seems to point to the ticket selling process being as follows (pretty much as you outline):

Up to a certain number of days you can buy specially priced seats (Value, Family Packs, etc). Then at ~4-5 days before a game date, the remainder of the tickets vanish, and appear on StubHub for a non-discount (or raised) price.

Maybe I’m just saying the obvious here (or I’m completely wrong), but I thought that was a basic component of StubHub’s model. The A’s get the guaranteed (lower) revenue by selling these tickets to StubHub for cents on the dollar, and StubHub turns a profit by raising the price and selling just enough to recoup their purchase.