Sox open registration for premium ticket drawings

No offense, but as a season ticket holder, we should get first dibs on Yankees/Green Monster/RF Roof tickets. We're the ones who dish out the thousands of dollars each year, we should get a crack at the premium seats/games.

It'll never change, though, as the Red Sox have us over a barrel--it's not any of us are going to give up our season tickets in protest.

As a season ticket holder, don't you already have tickets to these premium games?

Why bother registering. The fix is in. Ace Ticket will grab all of these tickets up. The A.ttorney General's office should look into this!

How about we stop broadcasting these onsale dates? It's already impossible to get seats so why add more people to queue?

yea but he's one of the guys who wants to buy them and put them up for auction for a ridiculous amont of money!!! People would kill for your season tickets you bum, stop bitchin!!!!

No offense, but if you are a season ticket holder dishing out "thousands of dollars each year" don't you already have your own Yankees tickets?

Maybe if you people didn't grandfather your season tickets then I would be a season ticket holder.

I probably spend as much as you a season to see the sox but I get to stand in the back or sit behind a pole.

There isn't a more overpriced, overrated, overhyped seat anywhere in sports than the partially-obstructed-view bleachers known as the Monster Seats.

And the right-field roof deck? It's terrific if you're looking to sit 477 feet from home plate with a foul pole obstruction.

You can keep them. They're not worth the money, and not worth the trip.

Pesky6, atleast you have the money to go to ALL the redsox games, don't you think the rest of us who have to save up for a month to buy some standing room only seats from a scalper for ONE redsox game should atleast get a minimal chance to buy seats. Your false sense of privilege is a slap in the face to the millions who can only watch the sox on television

C'mon dude, you can turn your tickets around for 4 plus times the face value for the games you dont want to go to. The Red Sox dont have you over a barrel, you make a choice to buy the tix.

"As a season ticket holder".........what a baffon. Hey moron, the list is a mile long for good season ticket holders and you are not doing the Sox nor anyone but yourself a favor by having them, so why in the world would you get special privledges? ............Maybe the Sox aren't holding you over a barrel, maybe they are trying to get folks who's parents didnt buy season tickets in 1937 a decent seat to a game at a decent price.

As a season ticket holder, don't you already have tickets to these premium games?

can you say 1-800-scalpers?

No offense, thousands of you season ticket holders line the pockets of those Stubhub scumbags and price out the real fans.

Pesky6 As a season Ticket holder you get to sell any of your games for a 100% profit. Its season ticket holders that are driving your own seat prices up by taking advantage of the demand. This system at least lets me have an oppotunity to take my family of four to a game with out mortgaging the house! Oh wait there are no mortgages to be had with everyone loosing thier job! I would be willing to buy any of your games outright In exchange for you to sit in the virtual waiting room for 10 hours just to sit in section 1.

Just to let you know pesky, I'm a Sox fan living in NJ> I tried yesterday to buy tickets online for July 5th for the bleachers so my daughter could see her 1st game in Fenway and I couldn't get them!! So be glad you have your season seats whereever they are in the park!!

Pesky - that comment is ridiculous. If the management were to allow what you are suggesting, they would be feeding a black market for tickets, which is what they are trying to control. You already have tickets to the games - if you were to get additional seats for those games, inherently you would be trying to move the tickets - while some season ticket holders would "give" them to someone else, it is conceivable that many would sell the premium seats or their regular seats on the black market. The lottery system in place does the best job possible of including "original" ticket holder that will actually attend the game - which is the intention. Lastly, just because you have more money to shell out for season ticket packages should not put you on a pedestal to receive an extra bonus of the best seats in baseball. This is a business - you have to understand that.

No I don't, Adam, unfortunately. Except for some of the Yankee games, that is. My plan doesn't include weekend games, Opening Day, or Patriots Day, either. I've entered the lottery for Green Monster tickets every year and and have yet to be selected for the "chance" to buy 'em. Yet an abundance of them seem to show up on Ebay each year, and I notice that Ace Tickets always seems to have a good supply, so it's easy to see what's going on there.

I'll enter the lottery like I do every year, but I'm not expecting anything.

Wow. A lot of hate around here. . .

Season tickets are a dream for many of us so quit all of your whining. A ticket to Fenway for any game along with a decent seat is also a dream. I sympathize with the person trying to take their daughter to a game. My 3 year old son's first Sox experience will be at Camden Yards where the ballpark is awesome, the atmosphere is cool (go Fenway South) and the tickets are available to all and affordable to all. And we will have money leftover to take him on the paddleboats in the inner harbor! Live in CT but will travel to MD to see my beloved team. Thank GOD the Orioles are losers!

So I just went and filled out the form and was told I'm not eligible. Do you have to be a NE resident? I live in NY. If that is the case, it totally sucks.

I should sign up for the lottery and then sell the tickets for a profit on e-bay or Stub Hub.

Pesky, you're not going to find any sympathy here man. Quit while you're ahead. The 'I only get tickets to 80% of the home games' card won't get you very far with people who can't get tickets to one game.

oooh, poor db pesky6... he only gets to go to 30 or 40 games a year because he took a cheap plan. well I feel real bad for you that you have to wait online for the rest of us for the premium games. Maybe you should've shelled out more $$ for a better plan, but then you wouldn't have anything to complain about, would you?
Go put your pink hat on and just be happy you'll make it to more than 6 games, that's about my limit because I can't get tickets. I'm sure I'll see plenty of yours on stubhub.

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I think the season ticket holders should quit there bitching...and stubhub already has these on sale for ludicris amounts of money...The sox should take some responsibilty and prevent stubhub and ticketmaster from being allowd to purchasing tickets period. I actually won the lottery and couldn't get any seats and was on the phone for 5 hrs as well as on line...the sox should also take some responsibility for that as well..

Pesky6 = jealousy, dude. I've been a season ticket holder for a quarter century now. Last September when the post-season ticket invoice came through -- you and I received them, filled them out, sent the check back, and we got our playoff tickets without breaking a sweat. Some people resent that. But you and I were there in the times that weren't so good, and the fact that we DON'T have to wait in line, fight the computers, is one nice perk for us.

What a lot of these complainers forget is that THEY weren't there during those bad years and WE WERE. We wrote those checks when some of these people wouldn't. The same sticks if you're a Celtics or Patriots season ticket holder.

Don't let it bother you. I don't.

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I have registered for 3 years, and have gotten chosen 2 times to attempt to get tickets for the right field roof deck tickets. 2 years ago, I sat in the virtual waiting room until late in the afternoon...no tickets. This year, I got a chance to purchase tickets. I got them for my son's 12th birthday. I would never have gotten a chance otherwise.