点评:Recent decisions by the Orioles organization is making it a tough decision on whether to renew my Birdland membership. I have been attending Orioles games for 50 years but have only been a Birdland member for a few years.
My first year I purchased a 13-game plan. This included 20% discount on concessions and at the stores. A couple of years ago the Orioles decided to remove this discount from beer purchases. I guess taking $3.00 off the now $18 beer was too much of a loss.
For 2026 they increased the number of games required by each plan, mine from 13 to 20 games. I think the Orioles forget how many fans travel from western, southern Maryland and the eastern shore, like me.
My latest annoyance is their giveaway policy. With the increased tickets required this year Birdland members were guaranteed the giveaways in which they had tickets. I understand the policy where you cannot exchange tickets into a giveaway and be guaranteed that giveaway.
I had 2 tickets for a game with a giveaway, Hawaiian shirts, but I needed to add 2 additional tickets, which I purchased for almost $200. Since there were not any seats available next to mine, I ended up moving to the end of the same row so my entire group could sit together. By moving my original tickets to those new seats I lost the guaranteed giveaway, for my original 2 seats.
I personally could care less about these shirts, but some people do. This is just another cheap classless move by the Orioles organization. I can no longer get the 2 shirts for the tickets as a part of my Birdland membership which I purchased for this game, but neither will the people that but my original tickets. Are the Orioles hording Hawaiian shirts?
I will probably be an Orioles fan to the day I die but that does not mean that I need to keep spending money at Camden Yards.
翻译:金莺队近期的举措让我很难决定是否要继续续订Birdland会员资格。我观看金莺队比赛已经50年了,但成为Birdland会员才短短几年时间。
第一年,我购买了包含13场比赛的套票。该套票能让我在场馆内的餐饮及商品购买上享受20%的折扣。然而几年前,金莺队决定取消啤酒购买方面的这一折扣。我想,对于原本售价18美元的啤酒来说,减免3美元实在是一项难以承受的损失吧。2026年,他们提高了每个套餐所要求的观赛场次数量,我所在的套餐要求从13场增加到了20场。我觉得金莺队忘了有多少像我这样的球迷会从马里兰州西部、南部以及东海岸地区赶来观赛。
最近让我不满的是他们的赠品发放政策。由于今年要求的观赛场次增加了,原本规定持有相应门票的Birdland会员才能获得赠品。我理解那种“不能仅凭门票就确保能获得赠品”的规定。我原本有两张比赛门票,还能获得夏威夷衬衫作为赠品。但我又额外购买了两张票,花费了近200美元。由于我原定座位旁边没有空位,最后我只好挪到同一排的末端,这样我的整个团队才能坐在一起。不过正因为把原有两张票的座位换成了新座位,我就失去了原本能获得的赠品。
其实我个人对这些衬衫毫不在意,但有些人倒是挺在意的。这不过是巴尔的摩金莺队做出的又一个毫无水准、低劣至极的举动罢了。作为为此场比赛购买的“Birdland”会员,我如今再也无法凭门票免费获得两件夏威夷衬衫了;而买下我原来那两张票的人也同样无法获得。难道金莺队在囤积这些夏威夷衬衫不成?
或许我至死都会是金莺队的球迷,但这并不意味着我就非得继续在卡姆登球场花钱不可啊。