[melt]

"Ruth"less price gouging at Yankee Stadium is incredible. The Babe must be spinning in his grave...

[gusopol3]

yeah, he wishes he were top-side making $30m/yr and not the $80K he played for.

[Swanks]

I went to see #3 UNC baseball team play #2 Florida State for $5. Great game; could have gone to all three series set for $15. Wonderful stadium too. Great to see wonderful talent vs. coke snorting steroid pumping losers

[jas3]

"Ruth"less price gouging at Yankee Stadium is incredible. The Babe must be spinning in his grave...

The Yankees are privately owned and can (and should) charge whatever the market will bear.

It's not like they force you to go to the games.

jas3

[MarkL]

I remember visiting my father in Yonkers, NY, over the summer when I was about 12 years old. One day he was working, so I took a bus to Woodlawn station, and the subway to Yankee Stadium, where I bought a box seat ticket for about $6.50. I spent less than $20 for the entire day, including lunch and dinner, plus food and a program at the stadium.

Mark

[The Wizard]

The Girls and I are going to a game for Tink's Birthday.....seats were impossible to find at the Yankee web site, but I was fortunate enough to get 3 $70 seats for $150 each...through an outside vendor......

they are really pushing this last year at the original location stuff....

But I'm glad I got them.....after reading this I am really gald

[Arguendo]

Luckily the firm will be paying for a couple this summer. I certainly don’t have any interest in spending that kind of money.

[mysterio]

Bread and circuses are getting expensive these days. Shoot, eventually people are going to start paying attention.

[glorgau]

$150 * 81 games = $12,150

$850 * 81 games = $68,850 for 1 season ticket.

$137,700 if you also want one for the wife or a kid.

Great to see that the average Joe can participate in America’s National Pastime.

[tet68]

How much is a hot dog up there?

[Mr_Moonlight]

On a side note, and with the new Stadium tix prices aside, this being the final season played in the original Yankee Stadium ... all tickets to all games are SOLD OUT! Thats right, 81 games at Yankee Stadium 2008 are SOLD OUT SOLID !!! Try Ticketmaster if you don't beleive me ....

Meanwhile, online scalpers are selling tix in the nosebleeds deep in right and left field for some $200+ per tix, and the prices just go up from there as the seats get closer to the field action ...

Sentimentality sure goes a long way here, and ppl are willing to pay the prices charged .. and while I'm not trying to make this a *rant* by any means, thats just the way it is.

Oh, and just for the record, I (Mr_Moonlight) as a lifelong Yankee fan, am totally against the building of this "new" Yankee Stadium if it means taking a wrecking ball to the existing 85 year old icon Yankee Stadium :(

[buccaneer81]

It’s everywhere. You can pay up to $190 a seat for a Blue Jackets game. My Upper Bowl season tickets only run me $2600 (for two seats, 41 home games.)

[i_dont_chat]

It is all about tax evasion.

The sports facilities have learned that corporations will pay outlandish prices for seats — because they (the corporation) can deduct the cost as an expense.

And so the price of seats is going up, up, up. And corporations are gobbling them up.

And meanwhile the ordinary person cannot afford to attend and take their children to the games anymore.

Corporations pay less taxes — and taxes for the people go up and up and up to make up for the shortfall.

And the beat goes on.

[AGreatPer]

Question. Is evey Yankee home game sold out?

[Former War Criminal]

I love to hear Yankees fans cry.

It’s even better when it’s a friend of Imus’.

But the pining for the good old days is real. My dad paid $0.65 each for our bleacher seats at Fenway Park when we first started going back in the early 1950’s. Ted Williams’ final appearance as a player in Boston was witnessed by about 8800 fans.

At least Massachusetts politicians didn’t fall for the scam of a taxpayer-funded stadium the last time a pro team wanted one (New England Patriots).

We fall for bigger scams...

[SamAdams76]

I'm going to a Boston Red Sox game in June with my son in which the tickets are $350 each. Right behind the Red Sox dugout. I never dreamed that tickets would be this expensive. When I was a teenager, I used to buy a bleacher ticket for $1.75 and for another $1.00, I'd get what was called a "grandstand pass" in which I could go into the grandstand and either stand in the back or find an empty seat. Usually in those cases, I'd end up behind the dugout by the 7th inning as most of the businessmen would duck out by then.

I figure I'll spend $900 to $1,000 that day once parking, food and dinner afterwards is factored in. I was at a Boston restaurant last night with my wife (Chart House on Long Wharf) and we spent over $300 all told.

It is getting insane out there.

[tomkat]

I'm 25mi south of the Little League World Series fields,
where admission was free last time I went and dogs/cokes were $1.

Yuck the Fankees in particular and MLB in general.

[GOP_Raider]

What does Mike Lupica care, he can pay those prices.

FWIW, I’m a Giants fan and I take an annual road trip to see the Giants play on the road, instead of in SF where the prices are rather ridiculous. I usually try and use one of my free flights I get on Southwest w/ my Rapid Rewards membership, buy my tickets for the game early—say, in March when single game tickets for that particular series is put on sale—and then make my arrangements from there.

So this year I’m going to Kansas City to see the Giants take on the Royals. I should also point out that I’m single and it’s easier for me to save money or more accurately to have money available for things like this. There’s no way I could do it if I had kids or were married.

[Clemenza]

Easy. Don’t support the fags in pinstripes who’s fanbase is largely comprised of tourists, transplants (who are ruining NYC), and guidos. Take the 7 Train to Willets Point and support REAL men for a change!

[Clemenza]

Easy. Don’t support the fags in pinstripes whose fanbase is largely comprised of tourists, transplants (who are ruining NYC), and guidos. Take the 7 Train to Willets Point and support REAL men for a change!

[tlb]

A lot of of cash to spend for a game that is a substitute for sleeping pills.