New Yankee Stadium seat prices...$2500 per game front row

davecrazy · May 19, 2008

http://www.yfsf.org/2008/05/gouged.html

But the Yankees are using their move to take this expected shift in price and location to a new level, and this is what my friend, perhaps one of the most diehard Yankee fans I have ever known, is so angry about. The seats equivalent to his prior location that my friend now has the "right" to purchase will cost either $600 or $850 a game, depending on his final choice (the above chart -- click on it for greater detail -- shows the pricing for this inner circle of seats). And even more startling (and, to some perhaps, offensive) are the prices of the seats in the front row behind the dugouts and adjacent to them: $2500 a game. A season ticket therefore cracks $200K. The cheapest seat in this "Legends Suite" (encompassing the entire mass of the lower box from foul pole to foul pole) is $500, nearly 40% more than the most expensive seat in Fenway, for comparison. The Yankees have outdone themselves here considering their already formidable wealth, their revenue stream from YES, and their generally spectacular level of popularity that would have insured a relatively full stadium even at reasonably increased prices. Their dedicated fans should be outraged - God only knows what the "cheap seats" will eventually cost.

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[Update: I neglected to include the fact that my friend was also asked to re-up to these new seats for a 10 year commitment with yearly escalations in price. So the math is: 4x$220 = $880 per game x 81 games = $71K for current seats vs. 4x$850 = $3400/game x 81 games = $275K per season x 10 seasons plus an approximate 3% escalation per year = $3.15M commitment upfront to retain his season tickets. So, an annual commitment of $71K goes to an upfront commitment of $3M+, to a family that has had season tickets for nearly a century, if my math is correct. This is, even to those with means, a ridiculous demand]
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I doubt citi field will be that much better....but thats just highway robbery.

typeOnegative13NY · May 19, 2008

Well,they better improve this piece of shit they put on the field this year. What a freakin joke. They have taken family outing right out of the sport.

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