There's a lot of talk about things that make the Yankees special, to their fans. Part of it is that the Yankees organization respects the fans, and isn't out to fuck their most loyal fans up the ass, unlike the Dodgers.
There's a lot of talk about things that make the Yankees special, to their fans. Part of it is that the Yankees organization respects the fans, and isn't out to fuck their most loyal fans up the ass, unlike the Dodgers.
How would the Yankees have handled the situation, do you think?
He could keep his old seats at the same price. However, the Dodgers gave him the additional option of jumping in line in front of everybody else to get the new, pricier seats that were built in front of his old seats. The difference in price was $100,000. Should the Dodgers have given them to him for the price of the other seats he had?
Seems like a decent compromise to me. In truth, the guy could have sold the new seats for a profit if he wanted.
Well, a few things:
1.) In Yankees-land, he would have had first pick at "upgrades" to any better seats, because upgrades are based upon seniority, and there was "none more senior" than him when it came to season tickets. Only after upgrades are processed are new season tickets packages sold, thus it would not have been "jumping in front of the line" in Yankees-land, he would already *BE* at the front of the line.
2.) In Yankee-land you can't sell your season ticket plan. You can bequeath it to your next-of-kin, but that's it. It can't even be transferred in a divorce.
3.) It doesn't seem like a compromise at all. He's had front row seats since the dawn of time. Now all of sudden he's held hostage: pay $100,000 additional, or you're now in Row 9. (or whatever row it turned out to be). That's a defineable "loss" in quality from what he had last year. Yes they are the same seats, but the seats have been devalued. The Dodgers could just as easily - under your logic - redefined the upper deck as "Box Level", and moved his seats up there, and "they'd be the same seats so what's he complaining about?"
The value of seats - at any event - is their proximity to the event itself. His were right on the event. Now they're not. It's fairly simple from that point on to see that the Dodgers mishandled it.