Marlins Park MIAMI, FL – AUGUST 08: A glove sits in the dugout before the start of the game against the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park on August 8, 2016 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images)

The Miami Marlins refused to sell a season ticket package costing nearly $5,000 because the fan wanting to buy the package has a history of reselling his tickets.

Meet Nick Barbella, a Marlins fan wanting to increase his order for season tickets for great seats behind third base from the Marlins. The only problem is the Marlins think he is in the business of reselling his tickets for a profit and are refusing to accept his money for season tickets. Barbella says he has reasons for selling his tickets, like attending to his one-year old child and pregnant wife.

As it so often happens for even the biggest of baseball fans, simply making it to 81 regular season baseball game sin any given season can be difficult to do. When you can’t use your tickets, you try to sell them to someone who can use the tickets.

The only problem is the Marlins have some fine print in their season ticket packages that forbids fans from selling more than 30 percent of their season tickets. Apparently, Barbella exceeded that limit. That seems like a silly ticket policy for a team that barely brings in any fans to their stadium that costs taxpayers a fortune. Of course, what else would you expect from a team owned by Jeffrey Loria?

“I hear people all the time saying the only way to get fans back is for Loria to sell the team, and now I think that’s true. I don’t think he can fix this,” Barbella says. “If this was a restaurant or a grocery store, I’d never shop there again… Just because it’s the only baseball team in town doesn’t mean they can treat their fans this way.”

Barbella is right, in principle, but wrong in actuality. The city of Miami has caved to Loria and enabled him to basically get away with almost anything. Loria can do what he wants without any real repercussions, and not even Major League Baseball can really step in and do anything about it. Such is life as a baseball owner.

[Miami New Times]

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