Yankees’ Top Seats Grow Pricier

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Will The Yankees Monkey With Full-Season Ticket Holders Next Season?
Published 3/21/2008 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
Richard Sandomir writes about the cost of seats in the new Yankee Stadium. (I wrote about it here, three days ago.) Sandomir's feature includes this: The e-mail message from [Yanks COO] Trost asked all season-ticket holders if they wanted to upgrade to the deluxe offerings, “for which we have already received an enormous amount of unsolicited requests.” It also began the process of relocating season-ticket holders to similar locations in the new ballpark. The team has the equivalent of 39,121 full season-ticket holders. ...

Joba's home
Published 3/21/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... , there is no lefty in the bullpen to start the season. You think Mike Myers really made that much of a difference in pitching a total of 71 innings over two seasons? Granted, we don't want Kyle Farnsworth in pitching to lefties (lefties' OPS against Farnsy last year was .824, compared to .628 for righties), but Joba to face a team's 2-3-4 hitters in the 8th inning, two of which are righty? Fine by us. Richard Sandomir discusses the approximate ticket prices for the New Yankee Stadium, and the picture ain't pretty for plain ol' folks like us. Is it a little ...

Start Saving Now
Published 3/21/2008 by Mantlemurcer at My Pinstripes
... you experiencing sticker shock? $2500- 1 seat, 1 game. The current stadium has 160 of these seats priced at $1,000 per game. Then you've got your "luxury suite experience"- the 74-seat Club Section, which is 4 luxury seats combined into one. The $700 cost includes food, drink, parking, concierge service, but no service from Elliot Spitzer's hookers. And on it goes. We'll just have to go back to the 1920's and try to peek through a knothole in the fence. Source: NY Times