Apparently they didn't save enough by letting Frank Walker leave.
Just kidding.
The team announced today that tickets will go up by an average of $4.72 -- Sections 301-308, 314-328 and 334-340 will stay at $75. Sections 101-108, 114-128, 134-140, 309-313 and 329-333 go up $5 to $80. Mezzanine seats go up $10 to $95. And Sections 109-113 and 129-133 go up $10 to $85.
And in two or three years, when the new stadium is up and open, none of this will matter.
Since I haven't blogged in the past few days -- I'm in Buffalo at the NCAA tournament, where it is amazingly not snowing while I hear it's snowing down in the city -- I'll update you on what the Giants have done in free agency:
Ummm... Gimme a few.
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I don't know anyone that would accept a Mercedes bill for a Pinto. Yet, Giants fans will be doing just that.
Can they at least sign ONE player to fill a hole on defense before announcing the price hike?
Doesn't look like we'll get a defensive player or anyone for that matter until the draft. That LB Timmons from Florida State looks like a strong prospect and could be instant help for our defense.
Press is too chummy/or afraid of the owners. The cap is a prime example how the owners completely bamboozle the fans. Exactly how much were the Giants UNDER the cap when they went on a spending spree last season? It was definatwely less than the $12 to $14 under just about every reporter said a month ago. Yet Giants still were beneath the cap. As Washington year after year having no cap room yet still acquiring more top players for big money. Like the press didn't question the Eagles 2 years ago for being $20 million UNDER the cap all year after disposing of many, many free agents and never replacing one of them and gladly swallowed the Eagles bs that Owens ruined the team - not the ownership. Denver had $5.5 million under this year per Denver Post yet look at all the big signings they made.
Giants ownership's hypocrisy of claiming the market has got too expensive to sign one player after another and at the lower salary levels of the league no less, then raise the price of tickets to watch the more expensive paid players on the other teams who think the market price is the correct market price- this is absurd.
NYC is not a small market team. If you think there was disension in the dressing room last year, can you just imagine how Giants top players now feel as management is not even trying to improve the team. NFL players have short careers in this league. I would want out of here if I was a Shockey or a Manning and as soon as possible.
And the press , all of you are way too friendly or scared of the team owners. You sure are brave bashing a player or a coach but NEVER the owner of the team.
In this case grandson of the real owner, just like Ford of the Detroit Lions and his pretend GM Matt Millen of the securest of jobs.
Brent, I could not agree with you more. I would like to point out two things, though.
First, the irony is delicious, as the late Phil Hartman used to say on Newsradio: complaining about the media via the media. Nonetheless, I cannot argue with your points.
Second, I'll just expand on one of your points a little. No one worth their salt would want to sign with them--players and coaches. If these free agents are in deed professionals, why would they want to enter the blame-everyone-but-yourself fray that is the NY Giants? Only if they were to overpay for them.
Whether Shockey, Strahan, or Eli are each part of the problem is for another post (they are). There's no pride, only greed in Giant country.