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
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Don’t forget the much higher quality beer, bathroom breaks when you want, instant replay when you want, better food, better crowd and you can dress how you want.
I’m always looking for crazy things like this to prove that the economy is about to collapse.
They are selling out these high priced seats and this means the economy is collapsing??
O and live baseball is still available at your local double a team. Tickets usually less then ten bucks. This is where the real fans have went.
#22, bilgo,
They are selling out these high priced seats and this means the economy is collapsing??
Totally unrelated.
Even during the worst of the Great Depression, people bought Pierce-Arrows, Dusenberg, Packards, Rolls-Royce’s, and Cadillacs. Tiffany and Company was still doing quite well, as was Belmont. Private rail cars were still very fashionable and usually quite opulent.
The engine of the American economy is the 95% that can not afford season tickets to a pro sports team. Out of 300 million Americans, that still leaves 15 million wealthy enough to buy the tickets.
the yankees have no money all because of ARod who is getting more money than the whole Marlins roster no wonder they have to sell their old stadium to build a new one