StubHub Offers Playoff Tix...To Teams That Didn't Make The Playoffs

StubHub either made a glaring error in their latest email newsletter blasts or are sarcastically sticking it to Mets and Cubs fans that their teams didn't make the playoffs. As if those fans don't have it bad enough, trying to support their perenially underachieving teams! Stubhub exclaimed via newsletter that they had great seats for all the Mets playoff games in an email sent on Monday:

“Be there alongside your New York Mets as they chase baseball immortality,” the e-mail said. “Go to StubHub, where you’ll find a fantastic selection of tickets to every playoff game—so you experience the championship chase live and in person.”

The only problem was the Mets haven't been in playoff contention since July and finished the 2009 season at 70-92. Any savy Mets fan who received this errant message would have been driven only further into baseball depression.

“This was due to an e-mail glitch,” spokeswoman Joellen Ferrer said in a statement. “We regret the error and apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused. Follow-up e-mails will be sent to every person that received the e-mail, notifying them of the error on our part." Ferrer said emails similar to that received by Mets fans were sent to the Cubs and a couple other non-playoff teams.

I would make some kind of joke here, but the Cubs and Mets are enough of a punchline by themselves.