Yankee Season Ticket Holders Come On Down

To see the Yankees play in their final season in The Stadium, more people than ever will probably flood the gates. Why not capitalize? It's a great business move, for those of us capitalist-driven business folk. You know, so long as the fans' concern isn't your first priority.

 

Price the live gate out of reach, and play postseason games at 2 AM.

Way to develop that long-term fan base.

Oh, yeah . . . screw the long-term.

How could I have forgotten?

If Bowie Kuhn had died of exposure in one of those stupid, sub-freezing night games, perhaps we might be spared, today.

Hope it snows buckets in Colorado for two weeks.

 

S-t-o-p.. .the Ilitch family screw the fans?

 

1995 4 seats in field box $25 each ( $100)

2008 $250 ea $1000 total per game.

 

And it's an All-Star year for the Stadium.

 

And yet baseball sets record attendance numbers every year.

It's simple. There's demand for the tickets. That causes prices to go up.

 

For the Yanks -- for at least the next two seasons -- absolutely.

But for many other teams, it's a giant game of chicken -- with their fans, and with the broad economy. Keep nudging, and watch the clucks exhaust themselves, trying to catch up.

For fans of some teams, there's actually a backwater benefit.

For dead-weight operations like the Orioles, the overhang of ticket supply affords some considerable late-season bargains for those with patience and an understanding of the inevitable.

 

decisions, decisions.... 2 Springsteen concerts or one Yankee game in field box seats by myself.

 

Yeah, I figure the "carry over" to the new ballpark wil last about eight months.

 

Makes sense to me. Steinbrenner the old man always had a passion for the blue-collar guy in New York who lived and died with Yankee success. Now the kids who inherit the kingdom take the attitude that Sam Walton's kids did. Fuck this, in other words, we're entitled to wealth beyond our dreams or needs! And who gives a fuck about the blue-collar guy who won't afford the new prices. Tell him to sell one of his kids if he wants to go to a game.

There will be reason, and ample material, for a new ESPN movie on the Steinbrenner/Yankee relationship within 3 years.

 

I wonder how many people will buy them now that most of the face of the Yankees is gone.

 

It doesn't matter. It didn't matter to Walton's kids....just grab the cash and run.