Some long-time Brave's season ticket holders are getting a bad case of sticker shock as they try to reserve their seats in the new SunTrust Park.
Channel 2's Ross Cavitt reported last month that SunTrust Park was designed to offer more premium seating for season ticket holders.
Long time Braves fans and season ticket holders say that plan is pricing them out of their seats.
"There is no more die hard Braves fan than I," Ron Currens told Cavitt.
Currens has watched the bad, the good and the ugly of the Braves from his season tickets just a few rows off the field for some three decades.
"I'd hate to lose the opportunity that I've enjoyed for the past 34 years," Currens said.
Currens had hoped to grab those same seats when the Braves move to Cobb County and SunTrust Park in 2017. But, as the Braves exec's explained to us a few weeks ago, SunTrust will have 10 times more premium seating than Turner Field and the premium seats come at a cost.
"My equivalent seats in SunTrust that I have been sitting in for 34 years in both Atlanta, Fulton County and Turner Field would cost more than triple what I'm paying currently," Currens said.
"At the end of the day this is a different design," said Braves VP Derek Schiller.
Schiller told Cavitt the vast increase in premium seats means they will be more expensive, but come with more of the extras at the ballpark fans have long been clamoring for.
"Those amenities come with a cost but they also come with a value to them, a service to them. They come with club environments, they come with parking, they come with food and beverage -- other amenities that are built into the cost of the ticket. And that's something our fans have stated over the years that they really want," Schiller said.
Currens said he is talking with other tickets holders to figure out how to keep his 34 year streak going.
