ESPN – Seats behind home plate at the Yankees new stadium cost $500-$2,500 – MLB — This must be an early April Fools gag, right? Either that or insanity.

The New York Yankees will charge $500 to $2,500 for seats near home plate in the first five-to-eight rows of their new ballpark. They already have commitments from ticket-buyers for all 122 of the front-row seats…the team already had received more than 3,000 upgrade requests for next year.

In the final season of the current Yankee Stadium, the team has 162 Legends seats ringing the infield mostly in two rows, with tickets priced up to $1,000 a game. Behind that are 3,000 Field Championship seats, which sold for $250 a game this year as part of season tickets. Those same seats cost just $25 in 1996.

I’m always looking for crazy things like this to prove that the economy is about to collapse. But the real problem here is that the game is mostly ruined by these new initiatives — the same in football. You go into one of these private suites, or fancy food areas and nobody watches the game. They talk business.

Found by John Ligums

If anything ruins these sorts of videos it’s the ridiculous credit roll. It’s longer than the production.