fgssand

It's really windy there, don't worry - but, watch out for your bottle of beer with no cap (they take the caps before giving you your beer so the bottle cannot turn into a missile, not that any solid punk of a mind to throw his beer bottle could not easily smuggle in his own cap).

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fgssand

She was fed to the sharks, sadly....

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Tunescribe

I don't drink beer at the games, too expensive. But I do have an occasional Pepsi and will remember to keep the lid firmly attached.

cloud34

a friend of mine just declined to renew his tickets.....they were good seats too, section 108..he felt that $125 was ridiculous, but he loved going...he's had season tickets for about 35 years, going back to when he used to go with his dad....so, $125 was ridiculous, but $169 was obscene..he feels that the Krafts are raping the fans blind....I used to go to one game a year with him, but I'm done...I feel really bad for my friend, it was the one thing he really looked forward to every year... Gee, Thanks, Mr. Kraft...wouldn't want you to not be able to pay your bills....I'd like to see more repies to this, I think 98% is one big lie!!!

bruschifan1

I just heard of another person that I know who let their tickets go. So that brings me up to 6. As I stated in an earlier post, my percentage is likely to mirror the general population. So.. finding it impossible to believe the 98% as well.

Karen (still hoping for an upgrade out of the the nosebleeds)

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robd54

hopefully this means i'll be moving up a bit on the waiting list this year!!! Although if the prices keep increasing this much by the time they're offered to me I won't be able to afford them.

PatsWickedPissah

Sadly no. As Karen (Mrs B) points out, the 'beautiful people' a.k.a. VIPs are covertly geting the prime vacated seats.

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JDSal45

Remember its also not just a one year process. I personally can say when they raised the seats to $169 I decided I only had 2 or 3 years left. I had no plans like that before. So, I'm going this year. But I have decided not to keep them going forward much longer. I would imagine there are an additional group of people who are in a similar position. Cancellations are more than just a one-year process. And I don't believe the 98% figure for year 1 either.

J D Sal

PatsWickedPissah

Clearly, based on the comments here from Karen et. al. the audience of corporate pukes continues to grow at the expense of the long time fans.

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AStack75

I tend to believe your suspicions also. I'm assuming that in previous years, the number of people you knew who gave up seats was probably zero.

I personally have my doubts about the 50,000 person waiting list or whatever the team claims it is. I think that's probably something that they put out there to keep the existing season ticket holders renewing. Since people are probably psychologically more likely to renew when they think that there's a large number of people waiting to grab my tickets from them.