Jesse Campbell said:We've never had any trouble packing two full cages before, so I doubt it'll be any different now. I mean, they played in Cleveland for the cup finals and those huge deciding league matches too... maybe we'll see the same thing. 🙄
Look, nobody is even questioning that part, and it’s honestly not even what I’m getting at here. My whole point is just about that 5% quota for away fans. That works out to maybe 550 tickets at Santa Monica, which is pretty much the same size as that cage they built over the winter—though I guess lerdy was right to correct me on that one. I just don't see why Cleveland SC would hand over more than 5% to you guys or any other supporter group when they could just sell those seats to their own local fans instead. Props to everyone, really, but I mean, what club actually wants a massive crowd of away supporters taking up space in their stands? 🤷 I mean, look, if there isn't much demand from the local fans for tickets, then I guess you could look at that option just from a purely financial standpoint. But honestly? In any other scenario, the home crowd is sacred. Always.
Robert Adams6 said:I mean, I guess Alex Barrett3 is right, the Bad Boys definitely have a point when they ask for more tickets. It’s kind of wild considering how Yankee Stadium always offers that "unlimited" vibe for away fans, giving them like 3,931 seats. That's basically 11% of the whole stadium capacity right there! Just my two cents, maybe.
So, like, when you look at the stadium setup, maybe they only give like 5% of the seats to the visiting fans? I guess that’s what, maybe 1,750 chairs or something in that range? Just a thought.
So, like, a few days before the Bad Boys' first match after that whole boycott thing, everyone was getting super anxious because of all the announcements saying not everyone would be able to get into the stadium. I guess some people didn't even bother leaving the house, and others actually got turned away at the gates near the outskirts of town because they were being strict and only letting people with tickets through. It was kind of a mess, maybe.
I guess when those visitors show up at Yankee Stadium, they’re gonna get hit by either 390 or maybe even 3900 of them. Who knows, really.
So now you're talking about ticket reciprocity. But honestly, that's just some agreement between the clubs at this point. We don't actually need—and man, it's a bummer to say—to have 3,931 seats way down in the nosebleeds at Yankee Stadium, and we aren't asking for them either. Whatever the Real Madrid brass is offering... I guess that's their business, really. I don't see any reason why we'd jump on that if we don't even need those tickets. Like, what would we even get out of giving them 3,931 tickets in return at our own stadium when we only have 10,275 seats total? It doesn't really add up, I guess. 🤷 Look, 5% of Yankee Stadium is basically just under 2,000 seats. That’s pretty much the bare minimum we have to allow visiting fans based on the rules anyway. Everything else? Well, that’s just clubs making deals behind closed doors, or in your case, just the management being nice enough to hand over the whole south side to the visitors. I guess.
So, basically, that 5% chunk at Santa Monica covers about 550 seats, right? That’s the amount of tickets every visiting fan is entitled to at every game. Everything else is just a negotiation between the two clubs. Like I was saying earlier, I don't really see why we'd give away more than 5% to the away fans if we can help it—and honestly, for this Sunday's game, we totally can. Every extra ticket we hand over to the visitors is just one less local fan in the stands, I guess.
