Giants pathetic season hits new low as team offers to pay fans to show up in September
Willing to sit through nine innings of San Francisco Giants baseball?Forget paying for tickets — they’ll pay you to go to their games.The team stinks so much that they’re offering to reimburse attendees for simply honoring the tickets they’ve already bought for the rest of the season.An email went out to season-ticket holders on Aug.27, according to SF Gate, offering 15% back off the ticket price in credits for next season to any of them who still showed up for their three-game series this week against the Cardinals or later this month against the Twins.It’s been such a brutal season that the Giants hadn’t swept a series all year until St.
Louis came to town and they took all three games.Each win upped the rebate to 20% off per ticket. The offer doesn’t apply to upcoming weekend series against the division-rival Padres and Dodgers, which are expected to be well-attended.
But it’s proven to be increasingly difficult to convince fans to come to watch a team that has been 20 or more games below .500 since Aug.9.“This final stretch is giving a number of new players the opportunity to take the field at the Major League level – some for the very first time,” the email reads, per SF Gate.
“We want them to experience Oracle Park at its best: filled with passionate Giants fans who bring the energy to the ballpark.”A scrappy group led by first-year manager Tony Vitello has actually shown some fight recently with almost all their underperforming stars either traded away or injured, culminating in the unlikely sweep of the Cardinals.They’ve staved off what would be only the second 100-loss finish in franchise history, but clearly in the eyes of many fans, the season was lost long ago.The email tells fans that the organization “shares your disappointment” but wanted to give an “added incentive” to come out for the remaining weeknight games, per SF Gate.The offer only applies to season tickets that were already purchased, which count towar...