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Baseball fans lash out over exorbitant online ticket fees: Old ballgame is more like a 'business'
BY TANYANIKA SAMUELS, HENRICK KAROLISZYN AND LARRY MCSHANE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Sunday, June 20th 2010, 4:00 AM
When Raul Rodriguez thinks back to his kids' first Yankees game, he'll remember Mark Teixeira's two-run homer. And the $100 in extra fees slapped on his tickets.
"You can't get that nostalgic feeling anymore because it's more of a business," said Rodriguez, 39, who brought his wife and two children from Pennsylvania for Saturday's Subway Series game.
"These fees are ridiculous," Rodriguez said after buying the seats online. "Going to a ballgame is not what it used to be."
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Queens), who released a report a day after the Daily News' broke the story, blasted Major League Baseball for its exorbitant tack-on fees at a news conference Saturday.
"There's not a lot of rationality with these fees," Weiner said.
"Major League Baseball is nickel-and-diming the public, and it adds up to big bucks."
Katrina Oberhauser, 30, of San Diego, came to Yankee Stadium Saturday with 14 friends and relatives for the Mets-Yankees showdown.
She wasn't sure exactly how much in fees came with her seats, but she knew it was a lot.
"If the fees weren't so high, maybe I could afford to buy a hot dog here with the leftover money," Oberhauser said.
"It would have been nice to save some money if they didn't have all those fees."
According to the Weiner report, local baseball fans often face processing fees, convenience fees - and even $2.50 fees for printing their own tickets.
"That's highway robbery," said Noel Infante, 33, a Coney Island Hospital worker. "It's not fair to the fans.
"It just puts money in other people's pockets, and it's taken out of ours."
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BY TANYANIKA SAMUELS, HENRICK KAROLISZYN AND LARRY MCSHANE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
Sunday, June 20th 2010, 4:00 AM
When Raul Rodriguez thinks back to his kids' first Yankees game, he'll remember Mark Teixeira's two-run homer. And the $100 in extra fees slapped on his tickets.
"You can't get that nostalgic feeling anymore because it's more of a business," said Rodriguez, 39, who brought his wife and two children from Pennsylvania for Saturday's Subway Series game.
"These fees are ridiculous," Rodriguez said after buying the seats online. "Going to a ballgame is not what it used to be."
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Queens), who released a report a day after the Daily News' broke the story, blasted Major League Baseball for its exorbitant tack-on fees at a news conference Saturday.
"There's not a lot of rationality with these fees," Weiner said.
"Major League Baseball is nickel-and-diming the public, and it adds up to big bucks."
Katrina Oberhauser, 30, of San Diego, came to Yankee Stadium Saturday with 14 friends and relatives for the Mets-Yankees showdown.
She wasn't sure exactly how much in fees came with her seats, but she knew it was a lot.
"If the fees weren't so high, maybe I could afford to buy a hot dog here with the leftover money," Oberhauser said.
"It would have been nice to save some money if they didn't have all those fees."
According to the Weiner report, local baseball fans often face processing fees, convenience fees - and even $2.50 fees for printing their own tickets.
"That's highway robbery," said Noel Infante, 33, a Coney Island Hospital worker. "It's not fair to the fans.
"It just puts money in other people's pockets, and it's taken out of ours."
[email protected]
Read more: Baseball fans lash out over exorbitant online ticket fees: Old ballgame is more like a 'business'