Yankee Season Ticket Holders Come On Down

patchs · Oct 20, 2007

If it was 1973 and the original Yankee Stadium, then I'd pay.
I've been to a few games and I never felt it was anything that special.
And to all those "blue-collar" Yankee and Met fans who are priced out of the new ballparks, you can go see the Staten Island Yankees and Brooklyn Cyclones.
AKA baseball welfare.

Ben_Hecht · Oct 20, 2007

Or better yet, hold the Yanks and their smarmy management in the contempt they richly deserve.

EStreetJoe · Oct 21, 2007

The Big Ragu said:

Mayfly said:

I wonder how many people will buy them now that most of the face of the Yankees is gone.
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They'll buy them. NY is a weird market. The tickets will all be sold old well before the season. A lot of the buying is by speculators who the last few years have bought up season tickets before tickets go on sale to the general public, and sell them off for individual games for a decent profit. It has been like printing money the last 10 years or so, because the team has been competitive every year, which means people want to go to games--and demand has way ouweighed the supply. The year the Yankees finally underperform, and by August it is clear they won't be making the playoffs, you will have a bunch of sold out games, with people holding overpriced tickets that they can't give away, let alone make a profit on. It hasn't happened yet. When they got off to a bad start this year, I thought this might be the year. But then they turned it around. The last 10 years, one of the best investments anyone could have made were 2 or 4 season tickets. You can essentially eat the weeknight Tampa Bay games and still double your overall investment just on the weekend and premium (Boston, Mets, late-season pennant race) games. If the Yankees finally have a season where they crumble, the lunacy might come to an end. But not until these people buying up the tickets and reselling them have to eat some money instead of making a big profit on their investment.
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That's why as a Yankees fan I was rooting against them this year. I figured if the early season fade continued into August I could get tickets cheaply. Didn't happen this year.
I had bleacher seats for Game 5 of the '01 World Series and Game 1 of the '02 ALCS. Haven't been to the stadium since. Between the work schedule and the ticket prices I haven't been able to make it out there. Last regular season game I attended at the stadium was prior to '95.

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