Those are the multi-thousand dollar seats at the new Yankee Stadium, right?
That's incredible. The richest franchise in baseball with the second most loyal fans... It goes to show that you can outprice even the highest level of demand. Also that greed knows no bounds in Steinbrenner's offices.
The seats in Nationals Park behind home plate are just like those. Greedy bastards. On Sunday vs. the Mets I think the stadium was probably about 60% full - the most full I've seen it in a while. It was a beautful day, and at least half in attendence went home happy with a 7-0 Mets win judging by the applause at Met accomplishments over the course of the game.
I used to have seats behind the plate at RFK for my season tix. They quadrupled in price for the move to Nats Park. I'm actually glad because I prefer the first base line anyway. I hated not having an angle on a good hit to see how far it was going to go. We had to rely on sound from behind the plate to know if it was going to be a dinger. I'd rather watch the ball rise on the well hit ones.
This is what they are saying about the "Legends Seating":
"You will delight in the premium amenities, including cushioned seats with teak arms, in-seat wait service, concierge services, private restrooms and a delectable selection of all-inclusive food and beverages," the Web site said. "Exclusive access to the bi-level Legends Suite Club and two Legends Suite Dugout Lounges helps make the Legends Suite the most coveted ticket in sports."
This is reason number one why professional sports is dead to me. They've make it so expensive to see a game, that ordinary people can't afford to attend, especially if you want to take kids. The old Candlestick park, while boring and cold as fuck, held twice as many people, as AT&T park and you could get bleacher seats for about $7 a pop.
Greed has sucked all the enjoyment out of professional sports and I only see it getting worse.
Around $15 for bleacher seats now. Still a good deal in my book. Can get away cheap if I go after work on a weeknight - bleacher seat and maybe a hot dog < $20.
You're now dead to me, Doc Z! Dead, dead, dead! That means no more weekends at the cabin, no more free beer from my fridge, no more sharing of bongs, or needles and especially no more looking the other way, while you fuck the weird cat lady, who hangs out behind the Piggly Wiggly!
Which is way worse than a bunch of assholes pretending we have two national anthems and wearing jingoistic patriotism on their sleeves to "America the Beautiful."
Empty seats just seems like poor management to me. Better to sell them cheap than not at all. If you sell them cheap there's still a chance the patron will buy the overpriced food or beer.
This empty seat business makes me all giddy inside. I'd really like to see pro sports fail and some of these millionaires get jobs as greeters at Walmart. I bet Manny Ramirez could push 30 or 40 shopping carts, all at once.
What pro athlete would you want to see, donning a blue smock?
I'd like to see every Yankee but Matsui employed as tongue moppers of the floor of one of those 'dudes who want to spank it put quarters in a slot and the wall slides open and they watch a chick dance" places. And not one of the classy ones.
