I’ve been in a Nats season ticket group for three years now. The members shrank from 10 to eight this year, adding another $110 to the cost for me — money that, for all intents and purposes, felt like it was stolen away.
The group is trying to reconstitute for another season. I’m dropping out. So are five others, leaving exactly two people.
I’m sure this scene is being repeated throughout the Washington metro area. 2010 is the year the Nats’ humiliating decline and fall really should smack the ownership in the pocketbook. It is a status that is earned.
oh, so sad! We have our own season ticket plan (6 seats – but only 20 games). We will renew. We really want our kids to be baseball fans (and Nats fans). Luckily, they are still young enough that they don’t get how bad the team is.
What frustrated me is I spent so much time last year thinking to myself, “This team is stealing my money.” It wasn’t just that the Nats were bad. Most teams are bad at one point or another. It was that they played with a level of embarrassing cluelessness — and at times, utter lack of basic professionalism — that I’ve never seen before in a major league squad. I’ve seen high-schoolers who were more fundamentally sound than the Nats were at times last year.
BTW, if I find the right plan, I still might buy a partial season ticket — but the ones I had were club seats, and they were darn expensive, and I got sick of paying hundreds of dollars to see that crap.
I figure we can always get seats off of stubhub or craigslist for just about any game….and probably less than face value.
Heck, I bet we’ll be able to buy great WALKUPS. Also, I’m going to make a serious chunk less money in 2010 than I did in 2009, and this was an obvious and easy place to cut.