Yankee Premium Seats Go Vacant

$350 a seat for a regular-season baseball game . . .

The run of street drugs must be especially potent, these days.

 

You are being to nice. Fatso was shilling for the Yankees big time. The Yankees fucked a lot of long time fans who dutifully showed up each year and paid the price increases to sit in the same upper deck seat the had been sitting in for 30 years.

In 1996 the Yankee attendance just a little over 2 million . That's the core group of fans that supported the team over the years and many now are displaced.

 

Still is.

 

Hearing more and more that the Yankees are not sure what to do. 40 % of field seats from 1st base to 3rd base have not sold. Each ticket has a face value of $325 .

The can't drop price or they will piss off those that already ponied up the $325 per.

I doubt many will walk up day of game and drop $325 to see the Royals in mid April .

 

Think there'll be a measure of recovery when the season starts -- IF they get off well.

But not as much as they'd like.

The point about non-marquee-opponents' games remains valid. In their greed, the
Grubbers set the floor grotesquely high. They may still make out, in the end, but
broad vistas of empty top-dollar seats will not look good on the ol' tube -- where
more and more people will wind up watching, at this rate.

 

The Yankees thinking was that they wanted to get the scalpers profit that seat owners had been enjoying over the years.

Problem now is that market is dead cause of Wall Street and market is flooded with more tickets because its now legal to resell without risk of losing your seats.

Out of 81 home games this year there is probably 30 games that you would be able to sell for more than face, But even for a Red Sox game it will be hard to get $500 per seat for a face value $325 ticket.

 

We're on the same page.

 

This may be a crazy question. But do the Yankees have any sort of attendance clause in their contract with the city for the new stadium? There are some cities (New Orleans is the one I'm thinking of), that, if attendance isn't at a certain level, that the city has to spend taxpayer dollars on tickets.

 

Nothing lasts forever. The Yankees have been hoisted by their own petard.

 

Since the Yankees are funding stadium I can't imagine they do but certainly anything is possible.

 

The attendance drop-off that will hit sports won't be the individual consumer who buys low-price GA tickets - it's in the businesses they gouged for season seats that split them out among employees and "clients." With those kinds of perks vanishing, all these sports that built their ticket base on gouged prices up close for corporations will suffer.

 

Well said. You'll also see a lot of unsold suites as well.

Which could lead to the rather amusing trend of teams ripping out suites to put rows of seating back in.....