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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I’d also move Yankee up if you can discount what they did with the seats behind home. Of course as a Tigers’ fan I was happy with being in a 50% Tigers’ section behind home for several playoff games. Thurgreed, are those seats all still corporate/half empty? I can’t help but think it hurts the team.
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Yes. It's disgusting what they've done. I don't even go anymore. It was bad enough when they pumped prices up and then posted sentries at every lower level to keep people from coming down and sitting with the rich people at the end of complete blowouts. And, yes, that happened decades ago and I get it.
But the idea that you can
and should try to squeeze every fucking nickel out of someone going to a game by creating a completely different stadium experience for the hyper-wealthy--different entry, different food, different service--is despicable. And then they jacked up prices to an amount even rich people won't pay such that >50% of those seats remain unfilled.
It's an embarrassment. The Steinbrenners should be shamed in the streets like Cersei. I wouldn't pay face-value for a ticket (hell, I wouldn't pay at all) if we were in the World Series. And I'm exactly the type of person they should be trying to keep in the mix--lifelong fan, professional with a kid who loves sports. Fuck 'em.
TM
