No more Yankee my Wankee: Rockies shaft local media
“But is it fair for a young up and comer to cough up his or her seat so Drew Soicher can be there? I’m pretty sure if you figured who sits where based on attendance, Soicher would be sitting somewhere out on Park Ave. Let’s make this happen.”
It’s widely known that when the New York Yankees come to Coors Field every couple of years or so, the Rockies front office jacks up prices because they know every seat will be filled with bandwagon Yankees fans and Rockies fans who love to hate them.
That’s well and good because the Rockies are just doing what every good capitalist does: when demand is high, you charge a premium for the supply. This isn’t evil or as dastardly as some have suggested. It’s not like when there’s a natural disaster or otherwise critical emergency and some asshole has cranked up gas prices to $7 a gallon. The Rockies have a product you want to see and they will make you pay for it. But you don’t have to go. You can watch it on TV, knowing full well that you may have to watch George Frazier eat.
But there’s another victim in all this that you probably don’t know about. We’ve heard grumblings from local media members that the Rockies have shafted the non-celebrity media folks into a small room with televisions instead of their usual digs in the Coors Field press box to make room for the more important New York media that will be making the trip to the Mountain time zone. I know. Boo-hoo to the guy/gal with a press pass who gets to see games for free, but it’s curious that the Rockies, who have done so poorly in their relationship with local media, would shaft some of the “lower on the totem pole” folks who are the ones that cover most of the games.
It makes sense to make room for Woody Paige because you want him to be rubbing elbows with the NY media elite. But is it fair for a young up and comer to cough up his or her seat so Drew Soicher can be there? I’m pretty sure if you figured who sits where based on attendance, Soicher would be sitting somewhere out on Park Ave. Let’s make this happen.
Again, the Rockies are making a business decision and while I don’t have too much sympathy to the people who get to see games for free, it still smacks of the typical shenanigans we expect from the Rockies. But as always, it comes down to the individual. If you don’t want to pay higher ticket prices or sit in a windowless room watching the game, don’t go. Because this week, the Monforts will be too busy having a money fight to know you weren’t there.
