This seems to be a case of poetic justice. The hubris of some teams in professional sports amazes; that it comes back to bite them in the gluteus maxissimus seems proper.
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This seems to be a case of poetic justice. The hubris of some teams in professional sports amazes; that it comes back to bite them in the gluteus maxissimus seems proper.
Our season tickets at the Jake (err, the Prog) are about 12 rows behind the first base dugout, so they're very much equivalent to Olbermann's seats at The House that Greed Built. The per-game cost varies, but they average less than $50 a pop. So they're about $800 less than in New York for basically the same seats. Even in boom times, I don't understand how there could've been a market for all those seats.
Nothing like biting the hands that feed you…
And the best part of that story…Hal Steinbrenner ADMITS that they are overpriced. If that doesn't typify the greed in the world today, nothing does.
Couldn't happen to a nicer organization.
A $1.5-billion mistake. LOVE IT! These are the same New Yawkers who thought they'd start a fund to lure LeBron to the Big Apple! Egg on your freakin' faces, you NYC idiots. What kind of rocket-scientist ever, EVER dreamed that there'd be people willing and able to spend $2500 x 82 games to watch that sorry team? That translates to $205,000 for a "summer o' fun!"
You see, Yawkers, there IS a huge price to pay when you make mind-numbingly idiotic signings like C.C., A-Rod, A.J. and Texiera. Did you think they'd be free?…that there'd be no effect on ticket prices? You know you're also paying for the entire new stadium, too, doncha? How friggin SWEET it is.
I'm anxious to see how the economy continues to affect that organization, between the lack of ticket sales, the large payroll, and at what point does Hal say 'no mas' when it comes to paying for a lot of the Yankees budget out of his pocket. I bet his ego is so gigundous that he'd go broke before he said no.
I did love watching the games last weekend and watching the number of Yankees employees outnumbering the fans in that seating area 3 to 1.
What "lack of ticket sales?" The Yankees are leading the majors in attendance. "The economy" doesn't affect attendance with a market of a zillion people. There are always people who can and will pay for anything. The Yankees will simply raise ticket prices of the other seats, and lower the prices of the "premium" seats. They'll eventually work out the bugs and get them sold.
New York is a great baseball town. Cleveland can barely support one baseball team, let alone two.
A $1.5 billion mistake? Give me a break.
Leave it to alan to defend the Yankees and smear Cleveland. Hey, alan, Phil Savage has an email message for ya.
Seriously, exactly why did NY need a billion-dollar+ clone of their old stadium? Well…clone, except for the windtunnel equalizer, which now allows opposing shortstops like Frank Duffy to pound 40 HRs. You can spend $300-million on a pitching staff, but when they toss half their games in NY, the Yankees just lost their homefield edge. They're the laughingstock of the nation now. Empty seats, an underperforming roster, a kook of an owner, and a Little League stadium.
Nice spending, there, Big Stein.
I'm not "defending" the Yankees, Marc, I'm just stating the facts. Or technically, I guess opinions which will end up as facts.
And "smear" Cleveland? Why aren't people buying tickets, Marc? And don't tell me it's "the economy." That's like "9/11" was for years, an excuse for everything.
I *thought* Cleveland was a baseball town during the '90s, but then in the 2000s, even when the Tribe was in contention or even made the playoffs, the support had evaporated. Yes, it's frustrating to watch an inconsistent team year after year after year, and maybe that's one reason for slow ticket sales. But when the team is going GOOD, there really is no excuse…other than NEO being one of the poorest areas in the entire country, with limited entertainment budgets and too many options.
And, BTW, if the Yanks are "leading the league in attendance" (which is impossible, I'd say, since they started the season with a 10-game roadtrip or something), it won't last. People will come for their look-see at the new digs, then be closed out of affordable seats. So the lower deck will remain empty until someone eats crow and slices the price to about 1/10th of the current cost.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/attendance