I just looked this up out of idle curiosity and it's kind of hilarious. It's sort of like archery except you're hitting golf balls. From the upper deck of a stadium, onto greens-like targets on the field. Your "golf score" is based on how far away from the flag your shot lands. Bottom line is that it'd be *very* easy to move this to another weekend although I suppose that really depends on how many tickets they've already sold.
I just want to circle back here to 2015 when the NYCFC schedule came out, and the last 4 games went A-A-A-H. I remember a bunch of us figuring there was some reason for it, that maybe they knew there would be some gap or structural opening in the MLB playoff schedule in 2015 that would make that last Home game not conflict with a potential Yankee playoff schedule. Then it was moot when the Yankees did not make the playoffs.
When the same A-A-A-H pattern showed up in 2016, we realized it was not year specific, and wondered what was so special that there was always a way to have that last game at home. We couldn't figure it out, but we figured there was a plan.
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But we couldn't learn anything else because again the Yankees didn't make the playoffs for the fourth straight year..
So 2017 comes and again the season ends A-A-A-H and finally the Yankees make the playoffs and we find out the plan was to hope the Yankees don't make the playoffs. Basically NYCFC clears out for a month, with 3 Away plus an international break, and then you schedule one last game at Home because it's just ridiculous to schedule the last Home game more than a month before he season ends, and then hope the Yankees fail. That was the whole plan.
I just got a call from NYCFC asking if I’m interested in extra tix for Sunday
Subway Series 2018, confirmed.
I just got a call from NYCFC asking if I’m interested in extra tix for Sunday
I asked about the playoffs and alternate locations and being locked in per our playoff “purchase” last month. The response I got is they have scenarios being looked at with a lot of moving parts and they won’t know for sure until the end of Sunday (I already knew that), but they’re approaching the playoffs with the intent to be at Yankee Stadium.
What??!!??!! Either they’re all delusional about the World Series situation, or information isn’t flowing down to the people manning the phones, or they haven’t been watching our team’s crappy play for the last two months, but to say YS is what they’re banking on is just a bit disingenuous (and I’m being nice because the caller admitted these decisions are above her pay grade).
I’ve had a long week, I’m burned out with work, and the one really gratifying event (outside of my family) that I look forward to each week is a discombobulated mess. If we don’t win Sunday, against an organization reeling under the weight and hammer-blow of an asshole owner, then our own org has got some real soul searching to do before 2018, both in the FO and in the team.
They shouldn't have charged them yet anyway, since we're paying round by round and we do not know what round we're starting in.
Citi is definitely a better venue for baseball with higher quality food options, an open stadium construct, and seats that angle towards home plate. But it’s the angled seats that may be an annoyance for soccer. I’m sitting in a section along the 1st base side that has them, and it’ll be great when the action is near home plate, but I have no idea how I’m going to enjoy it when looking toward the right field wall. Maybe it’ll be fine, and maybe I’m going to get a stiff neck - IDK.
I may have to "accidentally" get lost and luckily "happen upon" your tailgate guy...
