And they aren't Florida voters....go figure

What a bunch of idiots. And blaming the team, too. WTF?!?

Those E-de-ots are totally at fault here. Anyone who has EVER been to ANY event, should know they rip your ticket. Yahoos.

Go Cubs!

dont you need a full ticket to get in.....

didnt read article

Christ. Could they Whine any more.

It's just a freaking baseball game. Get over it.

On the customers' side: why would they print a ticket book where the customer could rip the ticket improperly?

Let's see if this article gets reprinted on Saturday in the Star & Tribune. Doubtful. We don't have the Mets in Minnesota to dilute our population's intelligence.

/snark

fark em.

/no tickee, no ride!

Tin Foil Hat's right.

Fark em.

Yankees suck. This article shows that some of their fans also suck.

"They should have torn the tickets right," he said. "It doesn't get any simpler than that."

Yup, sounds pretty simple to me. But, I'm also not a Yankees fan.

It's a right wing conspiracy against minorities. (Yankee Fans)

1) Baseball sucks in general... it would take an idiot to pay for the game to begin with.

2) Not surprised said idiot can't figure out the complex system of "You have to have a complete ticket".

3) Only in New York (morons).

Not to mention half a brain

So, this was never an issue before because why?

I'm sure it's happened before today.

Yankee staffers forced the fans to fork over $5 to get their own tickets replaced.

"It's the most vile treatment of loyal fans I've ever seen,"

Yeah, that sounds awful. $5 to pay for your sheer idiocy. Not a bad price to pay when last I checked the cheapest Yankee tickets were around $50-$75. Then these are playoff tickets and season ticket holders, so you can imagine they cost a heck of a lot more than that. $5 seems a small price to pay.

Wow! What a shame for these ticket holders! I'm sure one of these idjits are going to soon file a lawsuit for missing the National Anthem.

couldn't they just have let them watch half the game?

"I want them on a stake," he said.

You're child wants stake?

This was probably never an issue before, I am guessing, because the torn part of the ticket was never critical to electronic ticket validation.

I am guessing there must have been a barcode or something at the tearline.

Does anyone have a photo of one of these tickets that they could post here?

Your child wants stake?

*sigh*

yeah, there's no excuse for this. these people have nobody to blame but themselves. the article even said most of the people were season ticket holders tearing a ticket out of their ticket book. you'd think after a whole season of baseball that they'd learn the proper way to tear out a ticket. it's jackasses like this that give yankee fans and new yorkers a bad name.

I can feel for the people, almost. A season ticket holder wants to see all the games and should be allowed to do so. It did say Season ticket and had the right date correct?

But if you cant get it right, you deserve what you get.

/Sneaked into football games at half-time.

I am a die hard Yankee fan raised from birth by my good old BIC granfather, and I can say that most people at yankee playoff games are jackass front runners who take tickets from real fans.

ok, lemme get this straight...the Yankees are in the playoffs?

Oops, I missed the one already posted :(

Still, I blame bad ticket design; never underestimate what people will do with your product designs.

"It's the most vile treatment of loyal fans I've ever seen,"

yeah - they printed a new ticket out of good faith and charged a teeny $5 for their trouble. i mean, by all rights, they could have not let them in at all and told the whole lot of them to fark off. helping the fans out....yeah, real vile.

Ah, a story about rounders. Spiffy.

Beerden:

Read the date on the posted ticket carefully...

:)

Cry me a farkin' river. There are worse things in life. Besides, it's their fault to begin with. If the dumbasses had just torn out the whole ticket this wouldn't have happened. If they're season ticket holders then they've been going to most of the games this year and they know that they must have a whole ticket to get in. Typical New Yorkers though: They blame others for their mistakes.

Two points to make:

1) ThrnPhl is dead-on accurate.
2) Bronson Arroyo owns you all... just wait and watch.

By the way, I realize that not all New Yorkers are idiots but, you gotta admit, a majority of them are complete nut jobs.

......and the Yankee fans were surprised to discover that they had also voted for Pat Buchannon.....

Give me the names and numbers of all the people who bought these half tickets. I have some property in the Everglades I'd like to sell them.

/local saying

I don't have enough information to evaluate this situation. I wonder what percent messed this up. If you give the ticket to the average person is it obvious you need to tear the ticket at a certain place. Were there instructions.

I do think its funny how management handled it, they didn't sugar coat anything. Basically its your own damn fault.

"It could be worse," said Mitchell. "We could be waiting to see the Jets."

Man, we Jets fans really get no respect!

I pee on Jets fans.

"I just ripped it off, like everyone else out here," said Leslie Shifrin of Westchester.

...

Crowds of angry fans lined up outside ticket windows and listened dejectedly as "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played and fans inside cheered the start of the game.


Fans who didn't "just rip it off", no doubt.

"I want them on a stake."

If this is your child at 13, immediately do the following:

1) Get a vasectomy. You should not be procreating if this is how your children think at the start of adolescence. Has nobody read Lord Of The Flies? There's what a 13-year-old and a stake gets you.

2) Send the kid in for anger counselling - he may be salvageable. Also, stop him from following sports. If this is his reaction to sporting events, imagine what happens when something truly bad occurs in his life.

/only about half-joking, really