O/T Santana throws no hitter !!!!

[Gary Dunaier]

06/07/2012 3:05 PM EST

Mets to sell tickets from Johan Santana's no-hitter

Fans Can Purchase Tickets From the Historic Game for $50 Each;
Season Ticket Holders to Receive Complimentary Reprints,
40-Game, 20-Game, 15-Game, and 6-Game Plan & Pack Holders to Receive Discounts;
No-Hitter Ticket Offer Starts This Monday, June 11 at 10:00 a.m. on Mets.com

The New York Mets today announced tickets from Johan Santana's no-hitter, the first in franchise history, will be reprinted for fans wishing to secure a pristine keepsake from the historic game. Fans can purchase tickets reprinted on Season Ticket Holder stock for $50 each, plus order and shipping fees. The tickets will be available starting Monday, June 11 at 10:00 a.m. on Mets.com.

Mets Season Ticket Holders will receive complimentary reprints of every seat in their account. An order and shipping fee will apply.

Mets 40-Game, 20-Game, 15-Game and 6-Game Plan and Pack Holders whose packages included the June 1 game will receive a discounted rate of $30 per ticket, plus per ticket and shipping fees.

Plan and Pack Holders whose packages didn't include last Friday's game, will be able to purchase reprints for $40 per ticket, plus per ticket and shipping fees, through an exclusive pre-sale on Mets.com starting tomorrow, Friday, June 8.

The Mets will reprint all 41,922 seats at Citi Field. There is a limit of four seats per order. Fans can select a seating category and receive the best available seat in that location.

Visit Mets.com for more information or call the Mets Ticket Office at (718) 507-TIXX.

Source: http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/art...r_nym&c_id=nym

[barrysloate]

Incredibly tacky, but it certainly doesn't surprise me. Anything that squeezes out a few more dollars....

[Gary Dunaier]

As a season ticket holder, I'll be getting reprinted tickets for free. However, in response to an e-mail inquiry I sent this morning asking how the reprints will be identified as such, my season ticket representative responded:

To my knowledge I do not believe there is any indication that they were reprinted and there is no difference from the originals.

Bad news, if this is true... especially for those who've already forked over as much as $500 in a couple of instances for tickets on the collectors' market. And the funny thing is that it will make the box office style tickets more valuable...


(image taken from Ebay)

...because they're not being reprinted. At least not in this format - the Mets intend to make every seat available, so if someone winds up getting a reprinted ticket for section 520, row 1, seat 9, it will be on "Season Ticket Holder" stock, which I presume to mean the design used on the season tickets, so the reprint of section 520, row 1, seat 9 will look like this...



...and will thus be distinguishable as a reprint.