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Embarassed by rows of empty seats Yankess cut expensive ticket prices
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From USA Today:
Even the Yankees' arrogance has its limits.
Less than a week after Yankees president Randy Levine blasted MLS commissioner Don Garber for mentioning the empty premium seats at the new Yankee Stadium, the club finally deigned adjust its prices.
Those much-discussed $2,500 seats? Now they can be had for half the price. The foul-line seats that used to go for a cool grand? A veritable bargain now at $650.
And you don't even have to bid on eBay for the discounts.
The Yankees announced they're reducing the price on more than 40% of their front-row seats and will offer additional free tickets to those who have already bought premium tickets at the original price.
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said the empty seats had become such a hot topic of media discussion, it was virtually impossible to avoid it.
"You noticed it, because everybody was talking about it," Jeter told MLB.com. "You couldn't help but to look. But I'm sure if they did (cut prices), they did it for a good reason."
The discounts are only valid for this season, lest the economy gets kick-started and the Yankees become a hot ticket again.
Even the Yankees' arrogance has its limits.
Less than a week after Yankees president Randy Levine blasted MLS commissioner Don Garber for mentioning the empty premium seats at the new Yankee Stadium, the club finally deigned adjust its prices.
Those much-discussed $2,500 seats? Now they can be had for half the price. The foul-line seats that used to go for a cool grand? A veritable bargain now at $650.
And you don't even have to bid on eBay for the discounts.
The Yankees announced they're reducing the price on more than 40% of their front-row seats and will offer additional free tickets to those who have already bought premium tickets at the original price.
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said the empty seats had become such a hot topic of media discussion, it was virtually impossible to avoid it.
"You noticed it, because everybody was talking about it," Jeter told MLB.com. "You couldn't help but to look. But I'm sure if they did (cut prices), they did it for a good reason."
The discounts are only valid for this season, lest the economy gets kick-started and the Yankees become a hot ticket again.
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Taxpayer money built that stadium BTW.
Steve
I believe they're from the planet Boston -- they travel south to boo the Yankee players.