Yankees Slash the Price of Top Tickets

[cboy4]

Barton Silverman/The New York Times
The most expensive seats in the new Yankee Stadium have been largely empty during the first month of the season.



By RICHARD SANDOMIR
Published: April 28, 2009

The Yankees cut by up to 50 percent the price of the $2,500-a-game Legends Suite seats for full season-ticket holders at their new stadium on Tuesday. They also announced that holders of the ticket plans behind home plate would be given an equal number of tickets free.

The price changes, announced in a statement by Hal Steinbrenner, the managing general partner of the Yankees, amounted to a major shift in strategy for a team that is charging the most of any team in baseball for seats in its $1.5 billion stadium. But the highest priced tickets have been among the toughest for the team to sell, and those unsold or unused Legends tickets have formed empty swaths of blue seats that have been painfully visible on television.

The moves by Steinbrenner amount to changing the prices on just a few hundred seats and follow up on his recent comments that some prices were too high.

“A few weeks ago I indicated that in light of the economy we would review the pricing of a small number of our premium locations at Yankee Stadium,” he said. He added that the team had sold 85 percent of its 4,000-plus premium seats.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/sports/baseball/29tickets.html?_r=1&hp

[Forkboy]

1. Damn that pic makes me smile.

:)

[Auggie]

2. $1250.00 is a bargain?

:eyes:

[madinmaryland]

3. You sure they didn't mix that picture up with the Natinals or Pirates??

[cboy4]

6. LOL

Well done madinmaryland!

[MrPerson]

4. They're only lowering the prices on the seats that can be seen easily by cameras.

[cboy4]

5. Yup. You're right.

[hughee99]

7. But they've made up for it by doubling their team ERA.

A 5.87 for all the money they've spent is shameful. They should have spent some money on a bullpen.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. Better pic.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/28/ap/sportsline/main4975702.shtml&usg=___G_JNhPLbJASoxL5RxaTcY0du18=&h=330&w=512&sz=49&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=wGUCHihH9_sc1M:&tbnh=84&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyankee%2Bempty%2Bseats%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENUS286%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1