Yankees Just Aren’t That Big A Draw Anymore
Baseball April 18th. 2009, 5:15pmIt’s early in the season, on a workday and the team is off to a slow start. Still, I can’t imagine this is what Yankee brass had in mind when they were pricing tickets. PaulKatcher.com put together some great pictures of the empty seats at the new Yankee Stadium. 
To be fair, who could have seen it coming? The economy is strong enough to warrant spending upwards of $500 on a single ticket to an April game featuring the Indians. It should be fun to watch the attendence in these spots as the season moves along.
[PaulKatcher.com]
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April 18th, 2009 at 5:17 PM
I wish I hadn’t written this 12 hours before the fucking shellacking the Indians are providing.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Isnt the new stadium smaller(seat wise) than the old one also? I was pretty shocked they couldnt at least sell out the opener.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:23 PM
it would certainly be worth it if you knew for sure they would lose.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Just cause they are empty doesn’t mean they wern’t sold.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:24 PM
unfotunately i am in the car biz. i can’t afford rangers tix.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
This is perfect karma for the shit that’s going on in the country right now: they spend money like drunken sailors, strongarm more money out of NYC for cost overruns, and try to absolutely fuck people with their pricing policies ($2,500 for a great seat).
Now, no one can afford to come to the park, so there’s tons of empty seats (or the people that bought them don’t want to be seen in them in this “AIG mania” of today). If they shit the bed for the next two months, that new stadium will look like a Marlins game by June
April 18th, 2009 at 5:28 PM
any time the yanks get shit on im happy
April 18th, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Can’t Fox switch games? 20-2 Indians and meanwhile the Cubs are up 1 on the Card in the 7th.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:56 PM
I was shocked to learn top seats at churchill downs sale for 20,000. Thats not including the 350 meat ticket. Fuck
April 18th, 2009 at 6:00 PM
i feel sorry for your eyes cj. i am watching the cubs and cards right now.
April 18th, 2009 at 6:06 PM
fox not switching over to a different game is fairly ridiculous. do they really think joe buck running his mouth and making lame jokes about new yankee stadium are more appealing than a 5-4 cubs/cards game?
April 18th, 2009 at 6:09 PM
its because no one gives a shit about any team outside new york or boston /sarcasm
April 18th, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Those seats behind the dugout look comfortable.
April 18th, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Still the biggest draw in baseball, but who’s going to pay that f’in money.
April 18th, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Doesn’t some of the seat cost $2,600 per game? $210,000 for season tix seems fucked up no matter what the economy is.
April 18th, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Surprised that TBL even allowed this post to go up.
/ Homer’d
April 18th, 2009 at 8:41 PM
Ditto Brock & JPQ…especially with more comp’ed cronies in the US media than any sports franchise …I gather great sarcasm from CRM and applaud it again.
The ultimate irony is that this is at Shitifield. I used to work for Shiti but was laid off in full disclosure. Fuck ‘em like B of A. No good news for either and a few others is good news. EVER again.
Great work CRM keep stickin’ to ‘em where it hurts most. No holds barred please.
April 19th, 2009 at 1:59 AM
No, they can’t.
And here’s the really fucked up part. The bar that I run, we pay for MLB Extra Innings. Costs us something like $1k per month (for a commercial account).
Because of the national broadcast exclusivity rights that FOX and ESPN negotiated with MLB, our package is essentially useless on the weekends.
Here is the DirecTV blackout clause.
Basically it says that we can’t get any game before 7:00 ET that’s out of our market (Boston) on Saturdays, and we can’t get any game after 5:00 ET out of our market on Sundays.
So take today for example. The Celts lose at 3:30. The Sox don’t come on until 7, the Bruins not until 8. Can I put on the Cards-Cubs game for the many Midwest transplants that have ended up in Boston? Nope. I need to watch it turn into a football score because of these ridiculous deals FOX and ESPN have negotiated.
TBL…doubt that you’ll actually read this, but do you have any contacts that could dig up how these deals got finalized? The TV contracts are ridiculous enough…don’t even get me going on how Sirius and XM are now one company, yet original Sirius subscribers can’t get MLB.
Get Mad Dog Russo for an interview…I’m sure he’ll give you his two cents