The Yankees Blow

[Cheesehead]

Gotta love'em or hate'em in my case. Average ticket price this year is a MLB leading $72.97, a 76.3% increase over last year's avg. of $41.40.

Steinbrenners hard at work again. It will be great to see them come in 2nd or 3rd again.

[Xman95]

Gotta love'em or hate'em in my case. Average ticket price this year is a MLB leading $72.97, a 76.3% increase over last year's avg. of $41.40.

I bet they only sell about 3,000 tickets per game because there's no way people will pay that much for a ticket. Oh, wait, they'll probably have a pretty high attendance again because people WILL pay that. Nevermind.

[Cheesehead]

I bet they only sell about 3,000 tickets per game because there's no way people will pay that much for a ticket. Oh, wait, they'll probably have a pretty high attendance again because people WILL pay that. Nevermind.

There's actually a pretty funny quote by Johnny Damon in the same article, where he acknowledges that most familes will not be able to afford coming out to attend a game and then he says, "That's the people up in the front office's problem."

Nice, Johnny, real nice. Your empathy is overwhelming.

[Juice]

One of the Steinbrenners has said that tickets are probably overpriced this year, but they haven't done anything to fix that.

[GoMuskies]

The median price I don't think is all that high. They just have some ridiculously high-priced tickets that drive up the average. I'm not sure how they're going to move those high-priced seats given where the financial industry is and the public scrutiny there right now. No public figure from a bank wants to be seen in $2,000 seats at a Yankee game.

[vee4xu]

I heard on MLB network this morning that the Yankee clubhouse is 38,000 sf and it has a separate room from the shower area where the players can go and dress then scoot out the back door. I got the impression that the room was off limits to the press. Hank Steinbrenner said: "I don't see this place as ostentatious or flashy. I guess I see it as classy." Really? A $1.5 billion stadium is not flashy? They also said despite the high ticket prices there were 35,000 season tickets sold. I guess someone forgot to tell Yankee fans that the economy, especially on Wall Street, sucks. With a $200 million payroll, a $1.5 billion palace, $73 average ticket prices and 35,000 people who anted up for season tickets. the Yankees better win and right away. I will find it particularly funny if they don't.

[Fred Garvin]

The median price I don't think is all that high. They just have some ridiculously high-priced tickets that drive up the average. I'm not sure how they're going to move those high-priced seats given where the financial industry is and the public scrutiny there right now. No public figure from a bank wants to be seen in $2,000 seats at a Yankee game.

This is a very real concern in sports marketing. The Times had a piece not long ago about the Mets new stadium and Citigroup taking their name off it. What caught my eye was a section that mentioned how in the past corporations would have a nameplate identifying them outside the suite. Many of them have now actually requested the nameplate be removed.

I'm sure you'll see more of it in sports like golf. Should a company receiving bailout money be sponsoring/hosting a sporting event? I say yes, now moreso than ever. But you better be able to produce some tangible benefits.

And then there is Nascar. A sport that has intimate ties between sponsor, teams and fans because everbody recognizes it would be cost prohibitive otherwise. This was a sport that last summer foreshadowed the pain other sports will feel. These people travel vast distances for their races and last year was the first year in ages attendance suffered.

Now how do you think this affects Reds fans in Tenn and the rest of "Reds Country" that plan weekend trips.

[Juice]

I heard on MLB network this morning that the Yankee clubhouse is 38,000 sf and it has a separate room from the shower area where the players can go and dress then scoot out the back door. I got the impression that the room was off limits to the press. Hank Steinbrenner said: "I don't see this place as ostentatious or flashy. I guess I see it as classy." Really? A $1.5 billion stadium is not flashy? They also said despite the high ticket prices there were 35,000 season tickets sold. I guess someone forgot to tell Yankee fans that the economy, especially on Wall Street, sucks. With a $200 million payroll, a $1.5 billion palace, $73 average ticket prices and 35,000 people who anted up for season tickets. the Yankees better win and right away. I will find it particularly funny if they don't.

Don't forget about the term friendly bonds the Yankees received from the city.

And I don't think they will win right away, they are way too old and they will never move Jeter from SS (which is stupid).

[Jesuit4Life]

I guess a $1.5 billion+ new ballpark and a $200 million+ payroll doesn't include a win on Opening Day (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=290416110).

[DC Muskie]

10-2.

Yankee Stadium. The House Chief Wahoo Built.

[SixFig]

You'd pay at least that much for good seats to a Broadway play in New York, yet no one complains about that. I randomly searched and came up with an average price of 100 bucks for Wicked. And baseball, unlike a play, is different every day.

Lets be real here its New York. Its a city of excess and status. Plus with 26 World Series Championships they deserve the full support of a city. If X had 26 National Championships (I'm thinking by 2075 seems realistic) you best believe tickets would be that high.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion friends...best leave it to Dayton

[Masterofreality]

10-2.

Yankee Stadium. The House Chief Wahoo Built.


Nice. The only thing better is if the Tribe would have had their 9 run 7th inning against C-aptain C-heeseburger Sabathia.

http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:GrF4mjHQNalnUM::mytwocents.files.word press.com/2007/10/chief-wahoo.jpg

[XUglow]

Jealousy is an ugly emotion friends...best leave it to Dayton

That is so true. The Dane went through my calendar the other day and wanted to know who May is.

[bobbiemcgee]

I've never seen the allure....pay 2 or 3k a month to live in a closet, pay high transpo costs and $12-20 for a drink in a hotel bar and $25 for a good hamburger "dinner". People stacked up on top of each other like rats. Give me the wide open spaces. I used to go on an annual "baseball vacation" with my kids and included Shea and Yankee Stadium. Never worried the whole trip unless I was in NYC....you can have it.

[Cheesehead]

You'd pay at least that much for good seats to a Broadway play in New York, yet no one complains about that. I randomly searched and came up with an average price of 100 bucks for Wicked. And baseball, unlike a play, is different every day.

Lets be real here its New York. Its a city of excess and status. Plus with 26 World Series Championships they deserve the full support of a city. If X had 26 National Championships (I'm thinking by 2075 seems realistic) you best believe tickets would be that high.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion friends...best leave it to Dayton

No, no, you're confusing things. It's not jealousy. It's stupidity...and they still blow.