{"id":761847,"date":"2026-04-29T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/761847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T17:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:43:27","slug":"n-y-mets-see-single-digits-ticket-prices-for-washington-nationals-thursday-matinee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/761847\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Mets see single digits ticket prices for Washington Nationals Thursday matinee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cheapest ticket for the Mets\u2019 midday home game against the Nationals on Thursday is going for $4 with fees included on VividSeats as the team is \u201cstruggling,\u201d according to ESPN.com. The low price \u201cisn\u2019t entirely egregious\u201d in the context of a Thursday day game — the cheapest tickets for matinee Astros-Orioles and D-backs-Brewers are in the single digits. But if the Mets cannot turn things around on the field, it is \u201chard to see the cost of entrance to Citi Field bouncing back soon.\u201d The cheapest ticket for the game Tuesday night against the Nationals\u202fwas at\u202f$11 (ESPN.com, 4\/28<\/a>).<\/p>\n

FAILING TO ACT<\/b>: THE ATHLETIC\u2019s Ian O\u2019Connor wrote since Steve Cohen bought the club<\/a> from Fred Wilpon for $2.4B in 2020, there are \u201cno champions built and no trophies displayed.\u201d Cohen\u2019s heart and wallet \u201chave been in the right place\u201d and he \u201cdoes care about winning first and foremost.\u201d The Mets set a Citi Field attendance record last year<\/a> for a reason. But just like in the world of finance, a healthy investment in sports does \u201cnot guarantee a healthy return.\u201d Cohen has \u201cfailed to establish the consistent culture required for the sustained winning he all but guaranteed on arrival.\u201d However, he \u201chasn\u2019t shown the shrewd eye that turned him into a $21 billion juggernaut.\u201d Cohen has been \u201call over the place\u201d in his six seasons in Queens. Even his \u201cmost stunning victory\u201d — signing RF Juan Soto in free agency<\/a> for an \u201cungodly sum of money — is hard to celebrate given the record with Soto in his employ.\u201d The Mets have been \u201ccompletely unwatchable.\u201d Cohen \u201cpledged something much better than this\u201d (THE AHTLETIC, 4\/28<\/a>). In N.Y., Peter Sblendorio wrote fans are \u201creeling from the team\u2019s\u202fnightmarish 9-19 start\u201d and\u202fcan \u201ctake at least some solace in this simple truism: This is all part of the experience.\u201d Many \u201cexpected those fortunes to change\u201d when Cohen bought the team \u201cwith an appetite to turn it into a winner.\u201d The future \u201cappeared even brighter\u201d when President\/Baseball Operations David Stearns became Cohen\u2019s \u201chandpicked leader of the front office<\/a>\u201d in 2023 (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 4\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cheapest ticket for the Mets\u2019 midday home game against the Nationals on Thursday is going for $4…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":761848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,591,1266,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,149614,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-761847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-ticketing","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116489238028818368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}