The New Yankee Stadium: Redefining the Term "Visitor Friendly"

Have you heard that the new Yankee Stadium is extraordinarily visitor friendly? After scoring 22 runs yesterday, the Cleveland Indians certainly would agree! (Note: they were but inches away from 26 runs on a Travis Hafner fly ball to the wall in the 9th inning) It has great amenities and should be a money maker for the Yankees. For all of the lucre it may generate, it is also possible that the stadium really has sacrificed a bit of the “home field advantage” that it once conveyed to the Bronx Bombers. As Joel Sherman points out in the New York Post, this is not your Granddad’s cacophonous House that Ruth Built: • No more upper deck virtually hanging over the field. The upper deck is now set back and is much less directly above the action • Bleachers and their fanatic fans are much further from the field and much less of an annoyance to visiting outfielders • Field level pricing that would make Marie Antoinette blush! At $1,000 + per seat, one now finds soft ... (link)