Yankee Stadium's right field is a joke
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add to it what they did with ticket prices and how they screwed their everyday mid-lower level income fans and it is ********.
The history in the old stadium is what made the stadium. The new one just doesn't have the same feel and has a damn Crate and Barrel store, plus many others. There should be a rule in baseball that a damn ballpark is not allowed to have a Crate and Barrel store in it.
The history in the old stadium is what made the stadium. The new one just doesn't have the same feel and has a damn Crate and Barrel store, plus many others. There should be a rule in baseball that a damn ballpark is not allowed to have a Crate and Barrel store in it.
You can still get decent priced seats in the outfield and the higher up seats, but to make the seats behind home plate as expensive as they did is ridiculous
And I don't recall seeing a crate and barrell store there,NAND can't find anything online saying there is a store there. Not saying there isn't, but don't see anything anywhere about it
And I don't recall seeing a crate and barrell store there,NAND can't find anything online saying there is a store there. Not saying there isn't, but don't see anything anywhere about it
Last year I bought tickets to the Yankees/Rays for $90 bucks for two in the Jim Beam Suite Level seats. Front row, directly behind home plate in the 3rd deck. Great seats. Came with free popcorn and soft drinks in the club suite. However, the food in the entire ballpark is ****. $32 for double gin and tonic, $18 for a ****** glass of chardonnay for my wife that we could have bought the bottle for at any liquor store in the country. I only went to see the new stadium but it was a complete waste of my time. For what we spent there on tix, food, and booze we could have gone to see Book of Mormon on Broadway.
Going to see The New York Yankees play IS going to see a Broadway show, so to say. Yankee fans understand this. They are watching the greatest MLB franchise to ever exist. It's something that a red sox, cardinals, or cubs fan just doesn't understand. It's Ruth, Mantle, Gherig, Ford, DiMaggio, Jeter, Clemens, Jackson, etc etc etc. It's the pinnacle of baseball. To me and other Yankee fans, you can't put a price on it. I k ow none of y'all will understand this, but that's the way it is.
<font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="4">Where will they ever find buyers for one of the most successful franchises in sports history in a city of 10 million?</font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="4"> </font><font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" size="4">It's a business.weblow said:
For what its worth, I hate the Yankees.
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I think us common folk are capable of understanding that the Yankees have the most history of any team -- the most world series, most Hall of Famers, etc. I hate the Yankees, but when I was in New York in 2007, I made sure to go catch a game there (and sure enough, they lost!) because of all the history.KurtRambis4 said:
i'm going to be in NYC this week and going to hit up the yanks v. twins (blech i know, but that's my only option). upper level seats (grandstand level)are on stubhub for under $5. how easy is it to move around to better seats? there's also 200 level (main level)seats around the bases for ~$30 and down the line in the OF for <$20. strangely enough, the terrace level and the main level seats are pretty close in price.
i'm not going to drop $100+ for a pair of seats for me and the gf (just not worth it imo), fine spending ~$30 per ticket though, but if i could get the same or similar expereince for $5 per ticket, i'd obviously do that. just wondering for those that have been before.
i'm not going to drop $100+ for a pair of seats for me and the gf (just not worth it imo), fine spending ~$30 per ticket though, but if i could get the same or similar expereince for $5 per ticket, i'd obviously do that. just wondering for those that have been before.
he obviously didn't understand this so I was explaining it to him. Look, all I'm saying is that for a Yankees fan, it isn't that outrageous. For another team's fan just passing through, it probably is. Like someone else said, too, it's New York. Things aren't going to be cheap.
a Yankee fan talking about the team's greatness and a bear fan talking about the team's greatness are exactly alike. Seriously?
overpriced seats are purchased by large corporations (read Wall Street). Wealthy clients are quite often treated to a night at the ballpark on the company dime in them.
Spare me the "real Yankee fans gets why it costs so much" ********.
Spare me the "real Yankee fans gets why it costs so much" ********.
There really is no defending it. Those seats are so much that they are solely for the corporations who give them to people that really don't care about the Yankees. In turn those people are rarely in their seats which looks like **** on television and isn't nearly as loud in that area as it used to be. The outfield and upper decks are still great, but they screwed up by doing what they did behind home plate
Great seats in right field near the bullpen. Matsui hit a walk off homer a section over toward the line from us but about 30 rows deeper. I will say this - the crowd in 203 and 204 was much rowdier than 103 and 104. I guess that's the difference in $60 a seat. I don't know what night you are going, but stubhub has some in those sections for <$40 night (plus fees). If you're not going to be up there all that often, I'd suggest getting a little better seat than normal and enjoy it all. Get there plenty early to take in the whole stadium. It's very nice, and as has been noted many times, I detest the Yankees.
You don't think the Cardinals do the same thing? I've been the beneficiary of prime corporate seating in Busch Stadium. <div>missouridawg said:
</div><div>Look, I'm a lifelong Cardinal fan - been to 4 World Series dating back to '82. But there is NOTHING like the Yankee Stadium experience.</div>
So you like the model where you don't charge a premium for a premium product. I'm guessing you aren't part of Senior Management.Damn Dog said:
Hell, I wish the Cardinals had the revenues of the Yankees. They'd be a million times more efficient with it.
Rambis' argument about "true yankee fans" is just flat out wrong. Those seats aren't purchased by true Yankee fans. They're purchased by large corporations that use them as enterainment and there's NOTHING wrong with that. The Yankees are the biggest ticket in town and corporations use those games as entertainment for their clients. I currently work in the oil and gas industry and regularly take my customers golfing. I understand the importance of relationship building with your customers.
But to see that those seats are highly priced and that commoners pay for them because they understand why is completely and utterly false.
I've been the beneficiary of plenty of corporate outings as well. No one is judging companies for doing it...
Rambis' argument about "true yankee fans" is just flat out wrong. Those seats aren't purchased by true Yankee fans. They're purchased by large corporations that use them as enterainment and there's NOTHING wrong with that. The Yankees are the biggest ticket in town and corporations use those games as entertainment for their clients. I currently work in the oil and gas industry and regularly take my customers golfing. I understand the importance of relationship building with your customers.
But to see that those seats are highly priced and that commoners pay for them because they understand why is completely and utterly false.
I've been the beneficiary of plenty of corporate outings as well. No one is judging companies for doing it...
because you were, until somebody called you on it.<div>
</div><div>Then you did the old Peaches bait and switch move with a little name calling to top it off.</div>
</div><div>Then you did the old Peaches bait and switch move with a little name calling to top it off.</div>
At no point at any time in any of my posts on this subject did I even imply that corporate seating wasa bad thing.
So you aren't scoffing at corporate seating but you don't like charging $1250 a seat to corporations?<div>
</div><div>Another page out of the Peachbowl playbook - playing both sides.</div><div>
</div><div>Damn, dawg.</div>
</div><div>Another page out of the Peachbowl playbook - playing both sides.</div><div>
</div><div>Damn, dawg.</div>
"over priced seats purchased by large corporations (read Wall Street)" doesn't sound like you are real fond of the practice.<div>missouridawg said:
</div><div>Words mean things. You might want to remember that.</div><div>
</div><div>You may now proceed with another of your temper tantrums.
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First of all, they aren't overpriced. Why? Because somebody is willing to pay for them. And I'm pretty sure it pisses the resident Cardinal homer off. <div>MSDawg34 said:
</div><div>But thanks for sharing your ideology.</div>
May be tough to deal with but the Yankees are by far the biggest draw in baseball and have earned the right to charge whatever they want.
"Somebody" isn't willing to pay for them. It takes a large group of people (corporation) spreading those costs over several thousand people in an organziation and expecting something in return for them to purchase the tickets. True yankee fans aren't buying them.