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Lowering Prices From Obscene to Outrageous
(Enjoy the schadenfreude, Petertribo ;))
DETROIT – It says something about the starting price of Yankees tickets that even the reduced rates announced on Tuesday are very, very high. Those $2,625 seats that sat empty during the first homestand? Now the Yankees are practically giving them away, for $1,250 each.
Richard Sandomir has all the details here, and it’s a safe bet the Yankees must be embarrassed by having to make this decision. It turns out there is a limit on what even the wealthy public will pay to see the pinstripes.
Look at the big picture for the Yankees so far, and it’s amazing they’re just a game under .500 with all that has gone wrong.
¶The new $1.5 billion stadium opened, and two topics overshadowed everything else: unfilled luxury seats within an instantly notorious concrete moat; and the jet stream to right field that produced more homers in the first six games than any other ballpark ever had.
¶The Yankees are paying $73 million to three players, and this is what they have to show for it: one victory by C.C. Sabathia, a .220 average by Mark Teixeira, and nothing from Alex Rodriguez but a steroids admission and a hip operation in spring training.
¶Horrendous losses on opening day in Baltimore and the home opener in New York, and 22-4 and 16-11 blowouts on the Fox “Saturday Game of the Week.”
¶Injury flare-ups from Hideki Matsui (age 34), Johnny Damon (age 35) and Jorge Posada (age 37), who is missing his second game in a row Tuesday night with a strained left hamstring.
¶A near-complete collapse of the bullpen (including an elbow injury to the top setup man, Brian Bruney) and a 6.18 E.R.A. by the pitching staff as a whole, worst in the majors.
¶The virtual abandonment of the Brett Gardner experiment in center field after three weeks and a .254 on-base percentage.
¶No decisions and a .306 opponents’ average in three starts by Joba Chamberlain, who has not quelled the Joba-to-the-bullpen chatter.
¶Chien-Ming Wang… well, you know about him.
On the plus side, Robinson Cano and Andy Pettitte have been great, and Mark Melancon looks quite promising.
http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...to-outrageous/
(Enjoy the schadenfreude, Petertribo ;))
DETROIT – It says something about the starting price of Yankees tickets that even the reduced rates announced on Tuesday are very, very high. Those $2,625 seats that sat empty during the first homestand? Now the Yankees are practically giving them away, for $1,250 each.
Richard Sandomir has all the details here, and it’s a safe bet the Yankees must be embarrassed by having to make this decision. It turns out there is a limit on what even the wealthy public will pay to see the pinstripes.
Look at the big picture for the Yankees so far, and it’s amazing they’re just a game under .500 with all that has gone wrong.
¶The new $1.5 billion stadium opened, and two topics overshadowed everything else: unfilled luxury seats within an instantly notorious concrete moat; and the jet stream to right field that produced more homers in the first six games than any other ballpark ever had.
¶The Yankees are paying $73 million to three players, and this is what they have to show for it: one victory by C.C. Sabathia, a .220 average by Mark Teixeira, and nothing from Alex Rodriguez but a steroids admission and a hip operation in spring training.
¶Horrendous losses on opening day in Baltimore and the home opener in New York, and 22-4 and 16-11 blowouts on the Fox “Saturday Game of the Week.”
¶Injury flare-ups from Hideki Matsui (age 34), Johnny Damon (age 35) and Jorge Posada (age 37), who is missing his second game in a row Tuesday night with a strained left hamstring.
¶A near-complete collapse of the bullpen (including an elbow injury to the top setup man, Brian Bruney) and a 6.18 E.R.A. by the pitching staff as a whole, worst in the majors.
¶The virtual abandonment of the Brett Gardner experiment in center field after three weeks and a .254 on-base percentage.
¶No decisions and a .306 opponents’ average in three starts by Joba Chamberlain, who has not quelled the Joba-to-the-bullpen chatter.
¶Chien-Ming Wang… well, you know about him.
On the plus side, Robinson Cano and Andy Pettitte have been great, and Mark Melancon looks quite promising.
http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...to-outrageous/
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