Yankees release 2008 schedule
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Dec 17, 2007 
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Here’s the 2008 schedule and ticket prices.
Here’s the press release:
The 26-time-World Champion New York Yankees will begin the 2008 season—the 106th in franchise history and their last in the current Yankee Stadium—at home on Monday, March 31 at 1:05 p.m. vs. the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Yankees’ 81-game home schedule will feature three series totaling nine games with each of the club’s four American League East rivals (Baltimore, Boston, Tampa Bay and Toronto) as well as Interleague series vs. three National League opponents. The Yankees will host the New York Mets on May 16-17-18, the San Diego Padres on June 17-18-19 and the Cincinnati Reds on June 20-21-22. Additionally, the Yankees will make their first-ever regular season appearance at Minute Maid Park vs. the Houston Astros on June 13-14-15 and their first Pittsburgh appearance since the 1960 World Series on June 24-25-26 at PNC Park vs. the Pirates. The Yankees conclude their 2008 Interleague schedule vs. the Mets at Shea Stadium on June 27-28-29.
Holiday ticket packages for the 2008 season are scheduled to go on sale tomorrow, Tuesday, December 18, via the Internet at www.yankees.com. For complete “Holiday Pack†ticket information, fans should visit www.yankees.com. On-sale information for individual game tickets will be announced at a later date.
“As we enter the final season at the current Yankee Stadium, we plan to honor the history and tradition of this iconic ballpark from the first pitch to the last,†said Yankees Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost. “We look forward to celebrating our past and our present throughout the 2008 season while watching our new, state-of-the-art home come to life next door.â€
TICKET INFORMATION FOR 2008
In 2008, the Yankees will renew at least nine individual-game discount programs.
Verizon Family Games – On designated Monday through Thursday games in April, May and September, all Tier Reserved MVP tickets will be discounted to $26 and Tier Reserved tickets will be discounted to $19.
Fujifilm $5.00 Games – On selected game dates, all Tier Box, Tier Reserved MVP, Tier Reserved and Bleachers tickets will be discounted to $5.00.
Coca-Cola Value Pack Games – On 17 selected game dates, four Tier Box tickets, four Tier Reserved MVP tickets, four Tier Reserved tickets or four Bleachers tickets—as well as four hot dogs, four Coke products and one official Yankees item (to be determined)—will be available at discounted package prices.
MasterCard Grand Slam Pack – On 18 selected game dates, four Tier Box tickets, four Tier Reserved MVP tickets, four Tier Reserved tickets or four Bleachers tickets—as well as four hot dogs, four non-alcoholic beverages and one official Yankees item (to be determined)—will be available at discounted package prices.
Poland Spring Youth Games – All fans 14 and younger, when accompanied by an adult, can purchase half-price tickets for Saturday games (excluding Premium Games) in the following locations: Main Box, Loge Box, Main Reserved, Tier Box MVP, Tier Box, Tier Reserved MVP, Tier Reserved and Bleachers. Available only on the day of the game at Yankee Stadium and subject to availability.
Senior Citizen Games – On selected game dates, a limited number of Senior Citizen tickets (for those 60 and older) are available for $5.00. Available two hours prior to game time at Yankee Stadium Advance Ticket Windows only.
Con Edison Tuesday Night Games – Every Tuesday night all Tier Reserved MVP tickets are $26 and Tier Reserved tickets are $19. Excludes all Premium Games. May be purchased in advance or on the day of game and are subject to availability.
Student Games – Any student who presents his or her valid high school or college ID card at the Advance Ticket Windows can purchase a half-price Tier Reserved MVP or Tier Reserved ticket to any Wednesday game (except Premium Games). Available only on the day of game at Yankee Stadium and subject to availability.
Military Personnel may present their active military ID card at the Advance Ticket Windows prior to any Monday through Thursday game and receive one complimentary Tier Reserved MVP, Tier Reserved or Bleachers ticket, or one half-price ticket in the following locations: Main Box, Main Reserved, Loge Box, Tier Box MVP or Tier Box. Available only on the day of game at Yankee Stadium and subject to availability.
Please note: The term “Premium Games†is defined as the Opening Day game, the Old-Timers’ Day game, the final three (3) scheduled regular season games scheduled to be played at Yankee Stadium, and all games played against the following teams: Boston Red Sox and New York Mets.
GROUP TICKETS: Many of the 2008 ticket-discount programs may also be applied to group tickets (minimum: 20 tickets). Fans interested in group ticket information should call the Yankees Ticket Office at (718) 293-6000 or visit www.yankees.com.
INDIVIDUAL-GAME INFORMATION: On-sale information for individual game tickets will be announced at a later date.
It’s nice to see the Yankees have yet again raised their ticket prices. Good job by Lonn Trost, I might add. Now I can go to about 1 Yankee game this year being that 4 hours of travel to the stadium will be expensive and i can afford to sit in the now 12 dollar bleachers. Then again, its always been about the rich fans who can afford the good seats who get there in the 3rd and leave in the 7th.
Why, for the love of all that’s holy, are we ending the season AT Fenway?
Ending against the Red Sox is classic. Any other year, ending AT Fenway would be fine…but the last year of Yankee Stadium?
Guess it means just one thing.
We’ll eliminate the Sox in the ALCS at Yankee Stadium =D
What happens to the Od Staduim?Is the whole staduim demolished.If so I’m stealing Mariano Rivera’s locker.
Ahhh Tier Reserved MVP, gotta love it.
Nice of them to raise ticket prices again. Time to pay for A-Rod’s deal.
only 2 sunday night games?
holy crap, upper upper deck tickets in the infield (sections 1-18) went up $10 a ticket! wow.
$3 increases for the ones in the outfield (sec 19-36).
and it now costs $65/ticket plus ticketmaster charges to sit between first and third base in the lower rows of the UPPER DECK. just wow.
Apparently “Tier Reserved MVP” is how they manage to pay for A-Rod’s bonus.. I was paying only $18 for my tier reserve section 5 last year and now it’s $27 apiece because it’s got promoted to “MVP”, I wonder if I get to order grill chicken sandwich from my seat..
Can anyone explain to me – all 3 series we play in Boston are on the weekends, but only one out of 3 series we play at home against Boston is on weekend??
I can only imagine what this hike means for the prices in the new stadium next year…
Christina-
Don’t be so grumpy. There’s always TV!
4 hrs to the stadium- where do you live, Ohio??
yeah, ticket prices went up – what did you expect? the yanks just signed ARod, Mo, Posada, to big new deals (Andy is making what he did last year).
Ohio is a good 6 hour drive from the Stadium.
I imagine the $10 beers will rise to $12.
This diehard Yankee fan gave up his Stadium ticket package after the strike of ’94 when I got invoiced for the ’95 sesaon before I got my refund on the unplayed games.
There is no end in sight to how they bleed the fans who want to go to a ball game. It isn’t even enjoyable to me anymore to try and go to the Stadium because every time you turn around you are shelling out $20.00 bills. Never mind the cost of getting a ticket (if there are any left after the cell-phone crowd got theirs.)
Add to that the lack of available parking (also a highjacking if you can find it) and the drunken slobs with their corporate credit cards you are surrounded with and it all adds up to a pretty miserable day that costs the equivalent of a week’s stay for 2 in Aruba.
Goodbye Yankee Stadium. I knew you well when you were a viable means to watch the team that I love.
Skinnyhead-
“Cell phone crowd” – it’s not the late 1990s. Cell phone penetration is 82% in the U.S. as 11/07, increasing 400% in the last 10 years. By comparison, 87% of the U.S. use basic cable or satellite service. That said, I know people who refuse to use a cell phone, even though rates aren’t an issue.
Its the simple law of supply and demand. If you want to go to games, and you cant afford regular ticket prices, then go to the $5 games… they have a holiday pack that has 11 games for $55. anyone can afford that.
Baseball is a business. I hate the ticket price increases as much as the next fan, but it’s life, and they’re still going to draw 4 million fans again because if you dont buy the ticket, someone will.
Does anyone know what the deal is with All Star Game tickets? What are the face value prices, and are any available for sale to us commoners at those prices before the brokers get a hold of them?
Well, this is the last year I will have my season package. I can’t believe they pulled the “Tier Reserve MVP” on me. My seats nearly doubled in price. I’m sure equivalent seats will double again in the new stadium.
Speaking of season tickets, has anyone gotten their renewal email yet? I had the Sunday package for the first time last year, and don’t know how the renewal works. Just want to make sure I didn’t miss anything.
I guess I should figure out how much my $18 seats increased.
Motown no have not yet received the email it usually comes end of December beginning of January. When I alled the ticket office last week they said they were getting them ready. Scary isnt it that we actually look forward to an email that says you need to give money lol.
Can anyone tell me when the Old Timers’ Game is scheduled? I couldn’t find it in all this. Thanks!
August 2nd
karma works in the cell phone industry and is pissed
Has anyone heard anything on the full season ticket packages yet? This will be my first year getting all 81 games and I thought they would have contacted us first, yet I see Holiday packages are on sale. Anyone can let me know I’d appreciate it.
You will get an invoice via email or in the mail. They send out all season or partial season ticket invoices at the same time I believe
the $5 packs rocked when i lived in the city. glad they’re still around.
Thanks Gayle!
Invoices are now available on your “My Yankees Account”
I’m one of those TIER MVP peope who got abused by these prices. Just great….
I cant even get anywhere near my account lol. I have been trying to buy a Holiday pack even though I have Saturday plan and have been in cue for 38 minutes. They get me for another few then I am out
Two years in a row OTD is Anaheim? Who makes this schedule? And since when is OTD in August anyway?
Tier res sec 15, Row E. Screwed like everyone else. Imagine paying $30 to sit in row W? So glad I went to many games before this all got so out of hand.
Christina
Get a clue. First off, Yankee tickets are reasonably priced considering the team usually wins 94 or more games and makes the postseason every year. There have been years where the Yanks didn’t raise prices so there goes your “it’s all about the rich people” argument. Did you know a ticket to a movie in a Manhattan movie theater is at least $11? It’s $12 at one theater near Lincoln Center. A $12 bleacher seat is still a bargain and a bargain relative to other forms of entertainment in N.Y.C. I DEFY you to tell me a better $12 spent on an event much less an M.L.B. game elsewhere. Oh yeah find me a record store in Manhattan where you can buy a new release cd for $12.
Second, you’re outside and getting fresh air at the most beautiful baseball park in the world, able to bring your own food and drink, able to sit anywhere you want, among some of the best, most fun Yankee fans and fans in general in the world. You’re watching people display their talent that comes from within with no special effects, soundtrack, editing, or multiple takes. You could be watching baseball history being made (perfect game, no-hitter, cycle). You get to call out something to Bobby Abreu. It’s perhaps the only part of the Stadium where you could go off with profanities if you need to let off some steam without threat of ejection.
Those prices are nearly hockey-game level.
Yipes.
I’m actually pretty glad I only see the Yanks on the road.
It’s been a long time since high school when we sat in $3 bleacher seats and jeered the folks in section 35 as suckers with the cheer “we paid 3, you paid 10!”
We paid 12, you paid 21 or we paid 14, you paid 23 doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Thank God for TV.
The days of going to more than a game or 2 a year are gone for me.
But hey, if they’re gonna spend it, I guess they got to make it somehow.
When do they normally contact you about season tickets? I signed up for them a while ago for the first time.
My good but not great field box tickets went up from $63 per ticket per game in 2007 to $80 per ticket per game in 2008. When I first got the seats in 1999 they were $29 per ticket per game.
Pete,
On the Orioles website it says the Yankees are at Baltimore on May 26th Memorial Day. The Yankees schedule says they are playing May 27th-29th at Baltimore and off Memorial Day.
Which one is correct? Thanks for posting the schedule.
Thought it would have been cool to have the Yanks play the Dodgers during interleague play! Would have been great to have Joe back at the stadium…will have to wait until the World Series to see that!
The Direct TV MLB package all of a sudden looks like the greatest bargain in 2008. As the millionaire baseball studs say, “it’s not about the money”. That’s the biggest scam perpetrated on the apparent brain dead working man trudging on that horrible ride to the Bronx and dealing with the bums and thieves hanging near the bat. Of course for the rich sobs sitting next to the dugouts, the prices are less than an a .0001 hours pay..i.e. Crystal, stars etc. gag me with a spoon.
“It’s perhaps the only part of the Stadium where you could go off with profanities if you need to let off some steam without threat of ejection.”
Gee, Tim, when was the last time YOU sat in the bleachers?
Starting from the middle of the past season, the NYPD and Yankee officials started to try and cut down on all the profanities and the like in the bleachers.
Think of the roll call for a second. Towards the middle of last season, Bald Vinny was asked by the NYPD NOT to end the chant with “Box Seats Suck”. As the Stadium continues to bring in money and try to go for the “family image”, profanities will continue to be cut down, especially in the bleachers.
It’s pretty unfortunate, actually. I’ve seen a couple of guys in Section 37, 39 and 41 get thrown out of a game because they (as in an individual guy) would not stop cursing off Ichiro, Vernon Wells, Jerry Hairston Jr., etc.
Now, if it’s a mob mentality chant (like “JD Drew is a horse’s ass), the NYPD couldn’t possibly throw everyone out… right?
This Tier Reserve MVP thing is brutal. I’m paying for 2 seats for the Saturday plan what my friend paid last year for 3. $18 to $27 in one year? Terrible. I expected this next year with the new stadium, but I didn’t expect it this year. I’m sure next year it’ll be up well over 30.
I think its absolutely rediculous what the Yankees did this year to the fans. I have been lucky enough to have four seats in the field championship section right behind home plate. Ive had these since the 90s when the team was horrible. This year, without any advance notice, they decided to double the ticket prices from $125 to $250 a game. For me to take my family to a game will now cost $1,000 a game.
I know we all want the Yankees to win every year and to put a good team on the field, but this is getting rediculous. If your not a big corporation, have fun trying to get a good seat at the stadium. Im done being a Yankee fan, I liked it better when the real George was in charge. These other guys are jokes.
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