For years and years, these people sold their tickets on the secondary market for 2 to 3 times above face value.  I don't exactly feel sympathetic towards them.

What a complete waste of money. 

In 1984 I gave up my allegiance to my childhood team, the NYY, and started root, root, rooting for the home team from the bleachers with friends from college; by the '90's I had a generous friend w/ season tickets and have enjoyed countless games from the perspective of the grandstand. It's a great experence to watch a game in the oldest remaining park and more Bostonians might do if it werent so ridiculously expensive. So, here's a suggestion for the owners: lower prices everywhere at Fenway and rebuild your relationship w/ average Bostonians. All these kids who run around the Commonwealth wearing RS jerseys and hats don't know or watch the sport and are often hard pressed to name players.

The solution is obvious and ownership must recognize this if they want seats occupied. 

These fans are cry babies and sound like fools saying, when I decided to cancel they didn't even call to ask me why? It is not a marriage, they are baseball tickets and the way fans and consumers are these days they want to get stroked by everybody to make them feel important, which they are not. Man up and grow up people. If you like the Red Sox and baseball buy the tickets, if you don't, stay home and stop acting like spoiled children.

The Red Sox have way overpriced the product they put on the field; and my impression is that younger sports fans have far less interest in baseball.

When fans were in a frenzy about attending games, many season ticket holders used that as an opportunity to make a killing by selling their tickets via StubHub and Ace. Scalpers also had a field day. There's no sympathy from me what-so-ever. Hopefully Fenway will return to the "real" fans who simply love baseball.

If you want to take your kid to the game, buy a souvenir, a hot dog and a coke it's a $200 night. I wouldn't go to that stinkin hole if they gave me front row seats. The owners are jerks and the players are spoiled brats. Go see a Cape Cod League game if you want to watch competitive baseball played like it was meant to be played.

We have a large multi-game package of tickets that I've renewed for the past ten years.  We never sold our tickets for above face value -- and as a courtesy to the ticket holders in our section who know us, never sold them to anyone we didn't know.

Last year it was incredibly difficult to get rid of the tickets, to the point that we couldn't even give them away.  I'm not asking for sympathy, nor do I think those who made killings on their tickets as an "investment" deserve any.  But I do agree that we fans who preemptively fork down our money to this team every Christmas have been milked year after year by the ownership.

Every year the concessions are a little pricier, and the ticket prices tick a little higher.  It's only a matter of time when people decide it's not worth their money, especially when the product on the field is as lackluster and unlikable as in recent years.

Despite all this, if the ownership can make an effort to contain costs and make it possible for your average fan to go to the game on a whim without dealing with resellers and scalpers, it would be a good thing.  The phony "sell-out" streak days are gone, and it's probably for the best.

Looks like the bubble has finally burst. This economy is forcing many of us to forego stuff we don't really need. Now paying nearly four times what I did a few years ago for heating oil. We may never see "normal" again.

First, let's not forget that this "contemptable" ownership team brought Red Sox Fans 2 championships and ended an insufferable drought of 86 years. True Red Sox fans remember that first and foremost. Season ticket holders have been making a killing for the last 12 years!!!!! The entire secondary ticket market is a direct product of the unparalled success Boston Sports Fans have experienced since 2001. Do you think we might be a bit spoiled?? These things go in cycles. I for one am glad some of the "pink hat" fans will shake out and ticket availability will return to some modest amount of reality. If you think the Red Sox Ownership Team is really that bad, go ask a Baltimore Oriole fan what its been like to be an Oriole fan for the last 30 years. People just don't like a dose or cold water reality. The gravy train can't go on for ever, just ask Glen Ordway.

This is actually great news--an indication that the arrogant, tone-deaf ownership is starting to feel the pain where in matters most: in the wallet.  For years, the Red Sox have had the highest average ticket prices (double that in most MLB ballparks) and the most physically-uncomfortable stadium in major league baseball, and most years they continued wringing more money out fans.

They missed a key opportunity last fall to start turning around their damaged relationship with fans when they announced they were holding ticket prices to 2012 levels.  In fact, they should have knocked off $2 a ticket.  That would have been the first step in voicing a loud mea culpa.  If a $.25 bottle of Poland Spring water is still selling for $4.75 in April, we'll know that nothing has changed and that they still intend to gouge the fans.

It's truly unfortunate that Joe O'Donnell and Steve Karp were pushed aside by Bud Selig in their effort to buy the Sox in 2001--even though reportedly offerring more money than Henry and Werner.  We've seen what local ownership has meant for the Patriots and Celtics--neither of whose hometown owners are scamming fans, buying international soccer teams or running NASCAR racing franchises.

Let's hope the bleeding continues and they are forced to sell, so they can dabble in what really matters in their distracted lives.  This time, the PR machine turned on them--and far later than it should have taken.

I stopped buying tickets years ago. Even with the team at it's best Fenway is no friend to fans. Especially older fans. The seating stinks. The seats were built at a time when people were smaller. Sure, they've gussied it up and added revenue generating seats like the Green Monster seats, The Budwieser section, etc. Now that the team is just mediocre and appears to be headed to pretty much the same conclusion as last year, people are voting with their pocketbooks. In my opinion the product is way over priced. Not to mention the ridiculous pricing on concessions of all stripes: Beer, hot dogs, penants, whatever; it is way over priced. So, what does this tell us? That the fans are suckers for a dream. A dream that has ended for management obviously. But management has always been able to count on fans being suckers. As long as they could generate some excitement with the product on the field. That is no longer the case. This team is a collection of overpaid, whiny, self entitled cry babies. Wahhhh, we don't like Tito anymore.  Wahhhhhh we don't like Bobby V. Wahhhh it was all Bobby V's fault last year. Wahhhhh, wahhh,, wahhh. And guesss what folks? Management couldn't care less about you or your season ticket woes. Just show them the $$$. That is the only thing they care about. And TV contracts and sponsorships are way more important to them than you. They have proven it over and over again. You were just to besotted to notice until the wheels came off the wagon.

I'd rather be water-boarded than have to attend all the Sox home games.

All of you fans created the monster not just season ticket holders. Paying outlandish prices not only for tickets but for food, RS clothing and souvenirs. The comment by Mr. Ferraguto " It seemed like they just stopped caring about the fans". Has he been in a coma the last twenty years?

Hey Larry.......The prices are too #&%@*@ high! And to add insult to injury the seats are like sitting in  egg crates...

I'm one of the elitist snob season ticket holders who has decided to bail on them after 15 years. Just wasn't fun going to Fenway anymore. I felt like Lucky Lucino was picking my pocket every night that I attended a game. The team hasn't been likable for a couple of years now exluding Papi & Pedroia. Can't root for unlikable players. Even if the team stinks likable players keep the fans coming. Oh, and by the way, no call from the RS asking why I didn't renew. But I did get an email offeing us suite tickets for $28,000.00 per year per ticket! I thought the $5,000 I paid per year for 2 tickets was a stretch. Such a deal Larry.

The true fan knows, you can't pick your team, any more than you can pick your family.  Selling your season tix just because they've had a couple of (horrendously) bad seasons these past 2 years?  And this after 2 World Series championships in the past 8 years?  I say either quit your whining already or go ahead and give up your tix, because you didn't really deserve them in the first place.

Like the stock market, a team's fortunes go up and down.  Newsflash.... they don't win every year.  Further, we didn't win for 86 years, and found ways to lose Game-7s in the most spectacularly painful kind of ways during that time.  Things cost money because people are willing to pay it.  Don't like the cost of water at the ballpark?  Bring your own.  [yes, you can bring in unopened bottles, or use the water fountains]  Your chicken Ceasar salad too expensive for you?  Eat before you get there, or, bring your own.  Are you there for the gastronomia or to watch a ballgame in the most beautiful of ballparks?  Don't like the seats either?  Then maybe stay home and watch from there with your mini-fridge at your feet.  Cable too expensive?  It is for me.  So, listen to the games on the radio or computer.  You want a new Fenway?  Because you think things will be cheaper in a new stadium?  Never happens.

We live somewhere where people aren't dropping bombs on our heads or arresting us if we protest the government.  It's about to be baseball season, people.  Lighten up!