Biggest reasons are up front cost and the fact I don’t like sitting in the same place every time, the same reasons I don’t have season tickets now.

Plus, there’s no way I’d be able to get to all the games and I don’t want to deal with the hassle of splitting up tickets with others, putting them up for sale, etc.

I’m one of those un-renewed season ticket holders. I didn’t renew this year simply because a) I don’t know my schedule far enough in advance to be certain I can go, b) it’s so easy to walk up and get tickets for any and every game I want, and c) it’s hard to justify spending hundreds of dollars on tickets when my employer hasn’t given me a COLA increase, much less a raise, in years. The cost of everything else is going up, but my take home isn’t, so some things get cut out.

I still go to a number of games each season, just not as many as I used to….

Oh, and in Fremont? Nah, too far for me to drive, with no realistic BART options yet on the table….I’ll just stay home and watch on tv or listen to the radio.

So I couldn’t do season tickets any way. But I’m very excited about a new stadium. The Coliseum holds a lot of good memories for me, but the place has seen better days (like before Al Davis got his grubby little paws on it).

after i get my teaching credential and actual income, i’d love to get at least a big game pack. not to mention buying one of the condos and renting it out.

I mean, why not? If they’d take him for a full season ticket package. After all, he’s in his “terrible twos” and, besides, I’ve got a replacement on the way, although I haven’t yet determined what his VORC (value over replacement child) is.

Both my sister and I opened “ING” Orange savings account last year for just this reason. A pre-determined amount gets taken from my checking account on each payday (I can go online anytime and change the amount depending on my current financial situation). I’m not even sure how much I have in the account right now, but I’m hoping that it’s enough to buy a full season package when the time comes. I am disappointed that the new park will not have the bullpens on the field. I know this has been mandated by MLB, but I think it sucks. The tickets we have now are in the first row by the visitors bullpen. The interaction with the opposing players is usually the best part of my baseball experience on any given gameday.

1. I’m not going to spend that much.
2. My schedule is not sufficiently reliable.
3. I live in Sacramento.

didn’t buy them in Oakland and not gonna buy them in Fremont.

Suck on that, Lew!

if the A’s moved up to Sacto? Hmmm…….

the public transit access does not look reasonable for at least the near future, and I’m not going to deal with 880 down to Fremont, at least not for enough games to justify buying season tickets.

I will really miss seeing the games live…but the commute from Contra Costa is going to be too much for me. I hate driving in stressful situations and the public transportation to the games sounds like it’s going to suck bigtime. I am glad that the team will be staying in Norcal , though. I will go to all of the interleague games in SF between the A’s and Giants.

I went in on them in Sacramento for a couple years, but I won’t anymore, and I especially don’t plan to spend more money to drive further (emphasis on drive).

Season tickets! Only if the A’s can start winning again and actually spend money like our rivals the Angels!

I have tickets to Warriors & Raiders already, and I used to have the 20 game pack for the A’s, but ended this year because I knew they would screw up.

C’mon A’s, how do you expect to win fans over without forking over a little $$$. Use some money, to gain a lot more money!

I don’t think the Fremont experience will be fun like the bleachers are now. I’ll go to a couple of games and see how it goes, of course.

Right now, I’m an hour away from the Coliseum. I usually drive to Fremont bart with some friends and take that to McAfee. Now that its closer, I’ll be going more often, especially since I have some friends in Fremont who regularly go to games.

However, I’m just a college kid, the biggest thing stopping me from going to games is the cost. Not only the cost of a ticket, which I’ll end up paying about 20 bucks for, but its the transportation. With gas and bart, it easily adds up to 10 more bucks at least. I go to a few games each summer, definitely not as many as most of you guys go to. I do however go to the season openers, however much they cost me.

In the future however, I can see myself going to a lot of games. My dream is to one day be retired and have season tickets, then go to every game.

For those of you interested, it will be about 6 miles from the Fremont BART to the new stadium. Definately not walking distance. I’m sure there will be busses going from there though. That will be a pain in the ass. But Fremont is a relatively safe city, even at night. Fremont Amtrak to the new stadium is about 7 miles away. But Amtrak is too expensive to take regularly.

But for my 2 cents on the stadium, since capacity isn’t an issue, I think they should try to make it really nice. From what I hear it might look like this:

I dunno, thats not really unique, I want something that makes other clubs jealous, like what they have in SF. Have some cool structures, cut up the grass in a nice checkered shape, I would go to a lot of games…

But i do have a question or two because I see a bunch about the Fremonet move and I honestly can’t figure out what it’s such a big deal. How far away is the proposed location from the current one? I see all this talk about how it’s unacceptable to move to Fremont as if they’re moving cross-country. Is it really out of the way now?

There is nothing like jumping on the BART @6pm and being at the game by 6:30pm. I’m truly spoiled. What can I say? Will I go to games in Fremont? Probably, but it will be tough to beat what I’ve got now.

Season Tix – maybe when I retire in 2-4 years, wait, that’s about the time they’ll be finishing it.

Many issues will impact my decision. I know my situation is exceptional, since I’m one of the two or three thousand, probably, season ticket holders who live in Oakland. I live ten minutes from the Coliseum, so it’s going to be a lot harder to get to a ballpark in any other city. It would be nice to hear that there is going to be some kind of workable public transportation access to the ballpark, but even that will be less attractive to me than the kind of access I enjoy now.

When I tell friends who live in New York or Boston what I pay for forty games they simply can’t believe it. I could pay scalpers less, but why should I bother? For years my season tickets have been an incredible bargain when compared to other MLB prices; it’s almost a pleasure to fork over the three or four hundred bucks every December.

As a longtime season ticket holder, I appreciate the way the season ticket office is run now (with the major exception of having been tarped out of my original seat). The ticket exchange policy is so cool… I get the forty weekday games package but trade in enough of these to see at least one game in every home series. Plus I can trade in tix to games I missed for tickets to different games. I fear that these policies and the reasonable prices may not survive the move.

I answered $600-$800 in the poll, but I’m not sure about that figure; I may be willing to spend more (I enjoyed doing so in our Playoffs years). I will have to see how happy I am with the way the move goes, and what kind of loyalty the A’s will show their longtime supporters. I still love the Coliseum, though, and feel a bit jilted by both the A’s and the city of Oakland. It will be very hard for me to say goodbye to the Coliseum (did I mention I still love it?).

Two lines below the poll is a row of four clickable links, which read Email, Print, Flag, and Rec. You want that last one.

I live in Castro Valley and work in Richmond. On a work day, the Coliseum is on my way home. From home, I’m three stations away from the Coliseum. It’s hard to beat either way.

If the A’s move to Fremont, I couldn’t take BART straight from work to the game. I’d have a 55 minute BART ride to Castro Valley, then a drive to Fremont that would be another 30 minutes in good traffic, closer to an hour in typically bad traffic. No way I’m doing that. I might go to a few weekend games. I’d likely watch them on TV most of the time.

I suppose I’m thinking too much in the present. If they ever get a ballpark built in Fremont, it would likely be well after I have retired. I might be inclined to attend some weeknight games if I don’t have to make the trip from Richmond and don’t have to get up for work the next morning (5:00 AM). Season tickets? Maybe one of the mini-plans if those will still be available. If they don’t have seats in centerfield, I won’t go at all.

My disposable income will go into a season ticket package of some kind at the new stadium.