Shea Stadium seats for sale: $869 a pair
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Aug 05, 2008 
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This blog averages about two e-mails a week asking when seats at Yankee Stadium will be sold. No word on that yet. But to get an idea of what it’ll cost you, check out this release from the Mets today:
The New York Mets and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that the sale of Shea Stadium seat pairs will begin Monday, August 25 at 9:00 a.m. exclusively online at Mets.com/Shea.
Fans and collectors worldwide will be able to purchase orange, blue, green, and red seats for $869 per pair. The limited inventory of seats will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Each seat pair will be authenticated by Major League Baseball’s Authentication Program and affixed with a tamper-proof hologram displaying a unique identification number.
Mets season ticket holders will have the opportunity to purchase their particular seats before the August 25 general public sale. The sale of other Shea memorabilia on Mets.com/Shea will expand to include seat backs and 45-inch sections of bench seating from Shea’s Left Field Picnic Area. Details regarding the sale of additional memorabilia will be announced later this season.
Keep in mind that the city owns Yankee Stadium, too. So expect a similar program. But if the Mets are getting $869 a pair, figure the Yankees for at least $1,000.
Shea Stadium seats make for great gag toilets. A stocking stuffer for sure!
Hmm…well, maybe if I don’t buy textbooks, or food, or a winter coat…
I want the seat that Lupica was sitting in when Carlos Beltran took Wainwright’s curveball for strike 3 on that clear, mild October night.
anybody else on the MLBTR chat right now? I’m trying to ask questions as Phil Hughes and Jonny Gomes and not getting any attention. i need attention!
For a piece of memorabilia as unique as that, it’s really not such an outrageous price. I would be surprised if a pair of Yankee Stadium seats is anywhere near that price. I guarantee you’re going to have companies like Steiner buying them in bulk and having them signed and selling them for outrageous prices.
I bet Steiner will want like $10,000 for a stadium seat autographed by Derek Jeter.
Max Kellerman filling in for M. Kay. on 1050
“I bet Steiner will want like $10,000 for a stadium seat autographed by Derek Jeter.”
I bet you’re right. Further, I bet some dumbass or several dumbasses will pay that.
damn what did happen to Johnny Gomes
from 05-07 vs LHP .299/.402/.551
2008 vs LHP .188/.288/.438 …wow maybe stop acting like a wrestler and start playing some ball
Interesting SAT kind $ amount for the seats.
Mets=$869 86 and 69- the 2 WS Years
“2008 vs LHP .188/.288/.438 …wow maybe stop acting like a wrestler and start playing some ball”
I could see Shelly “Bam Bam” Duncan and Gomes as a tag team.
Was Watching is echoing my statement
In 60 PA this season, to date, with RISP and 2 outs, the “Big G†has the following BA/OBP/SLG line: .191/.367/.277 – So, basically, in these spots, Giambi walks or does nothing.
BAT NADY 5TH
Brandon: We all wish he’d do that…
Good carch Pat! A-Rod signed seats will go for more than that in his quest to topple Jeter.
I don’t know if anyone saw my comment on Gomes on another thread, but his lack of development is disappointing. I always thought he had the potential to be a real gamer?
Did his heart attack have anything to do with this?
Is he worth trying to pick up on a minor league deal? I do have a soft spot for him.
$869 for shea.
$2626 for yankee stadium?
Brandon, I still don’t understand why Nady is not batting 5th.
Ortiz in the Boston lineup tonite – hitting 3rd.
Whoa, somehow that would not surprise me.
good luck wrist
Yankees’ Pavano to pitch in Trenton on Thursday
by Star-Ledger sports desk
Tuesday August 05, 2008, 4:05 PM
Carl Pavano is back. Or at least in Trenton.
The oft-injured (or is it always-injured?) Yankees’ starting pitcher will make a rehab start in Trenton on Thursday against the Akron Aeros, the Indians’ Double-A team.
From the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up department: Thursday is Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Night; there will be health screenings available during the game.
Pavano, who has been injured throughout most of this 4-year, 40-million deal with the Yankees, was a former star in Trenton. He was a member of the 1996 Thunder team and earned Eastern League Pitcher of the Year honors that year. He is a member of the Thunder All 15 Year Team as voted by the fans prior to the 2008 season.
whoa
$2727 would be worth the extra 101 dollars.
“From the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up department: Thursday is Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Night; there will be health screenings available during the game.”
Classic.
BREAKING NEWS: Cervelli To Trenton
August 4, 2008 by thunderbaseball
(PR) The Trenton Thunder, the Double-A affiliate of the New York Yankees, have announced that C Francisco Cervelli has been transferred from the Gulf Coast League Yankees to Trenton. C Eladio Rodriguez has been placed on the Disabled List.
Cervelli has only played in a total of six games this season. He went 3 x 10 with an RBI in three games for Tampa (High-A) between 6/16-6/19. He went 2 x 8 in three games for the Gulf Coast League Yankees (7/30-8/2). Cervelli suffered a fractured right wrist during Spring Training and started the season on the Disabled List. He has also missed action this season with a left knee injury. Last season, Cervelli had a .279 BA with two home runs and 32 RBI in 89 games for Tampa. He entered the season as the 23rd rated prospect in the Yankees Minor League System according to Baseball America, and is currently on the Yankees 40-man roster.
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Johnny Gomes’ only hits off lefties this year must have mostly been against Pettitte.
Re: Ortiz…
How come we always know about every ache and pain this guy gets? Wouldn’t it be more prudent for him to keep his trap shut and not give the opponent any sort of advantage, psychological or otherwise?
Wow that’s really ironic that Cervelli is in the news the same day as Gomes (going in different directions, naturally). That spring training brouhaha was some really idiotic business, and Gomes was, to me, the biggest dunce involved.
“How come we always know about every ache and pain this guy gets? Wouldn’t it be more prudent for him to keep his trap shut and not give the opponent any sort of advantage, psychological or otherwise?”
It ain’t football. That crap doesn’t mean much in baseball. Pitchers may bust him inside with the wrist, but they were going to do that anyway because he missed 2 months with it.
lol no one is going to pay that price for a Shea stadium seat.
Ortiz doesn’t play for the Patriots. He didn’t get the Belichick memo not to talk to the media about injuries. lol
That’s why we know about his wrist.
Ah – the inevitable Bronson Arroyo mention
Bronson Arroyo
Bronson Arroyo
GAH!!!
I’m confused is that good news or bad news
I cannot believe that Steiner can sell a seat for like 3 months pay (for me at least) memorabilia is such a racket, it must be nice to be in bed with the Yanks.
Eddie Kunz = Joba?
I am looking forward to Cervelli possibly contributing in 09, prior to that stupid oaf running him over I thought he looked good.
“That spring training brouhaha was some really idiotic business, and Gomes was, to me, the biggest dunce involved.”
Besides Gomes and Shelly potentially being a good tag team, you could also pool together their brain power and create a pretty decent moron.
I dunno how Pete can call the Cowboys evil, the Pats have been the proverbial “Dark side” of the NFL for about 10 years now, led by the emperor Belicheat.
It’s a tossup which looks more gay: Arroyo’s leg-kick or Mussina’s waist-bend from the stretch. I’d go with Mussina. Looks like he dropped the soap.
If I win the EuroMillions jackpot anytime soon I’ll maybe buy some of those seats.
What happens to the facade?
Just because Belichick is a chronic cheat doesn’t necessarily make him a bad guy.
Thanks for the heads up.
I was planning on remodeling my outhouse, and it’s a two-holer.
The seats aren’t even that old. Didn’t the just put them in sometime in the last ten years or so? I remember them being sold then for a bundle, and even then I think they were only from the renovations in the 70′s.. Still, there will be some cool memorobilia from the Stadium.
And then, there will also be some idiot buying the Freedom BBQ Grill signs from the mens room.
“Just because Belichick is a chronic cheat doesn’t necessarily make him a bad guy.”
Nope it doesn’t. Being a pro football coach does make you half a whack job though. I don’t believe Belichik cheated any more than all other teams do, but he does seem like a real crap weasel.
“It’s a tossup which looks more gay: Arroyo’s leg-kick or Mussina’s waist-bend from the stretch. I’d go with Mussina. Looks like he dropped the soap.”
lol.I don pay attention to Arroyo. Can someone describe the leg kick?
>>Nope it doesn’t. Being a pro football coach does make you half a whack job though
Manny took a swing at Schilling too.
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....revea.html
“It ain’t football. That crap doesn’t mean much in baseball. Pitchers may bust him inside with the wrist, but they were going to do that anyway because he missed 2 months with it.”
It just sounds like an excuse to me. If he struggles, then he has an out… and if he succeeds then he’s the greatest guy ever.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....atsId=5909
-check out the last 7 days line.
““It’s a tossup which looks more gay: Arroyo’s leg-kick or Mussina’s waist-bend from the stretch. I’d go with Mussina. Looks like he dropped the soap.—
Ryan Dempster takes the cake with that mit flipping BS…
as for stadium memorobelia, i got an email with a scanned magazine article stating how much things from yankee stadium would go for. not sure which magazine…
it said urinals would go for $200 each. not bad… i could pee on the floor next to it at home!
“Ryan Dempster takes the cake with that mit flipping BS…”
I wonder if he would go on the dl is he accidently slept on the wrist and couldnt twirl it on the mound?
“it said urinals would go for $200 each. not bad… i could pee on the floor next to it at home!”
lol. Saucy make sure they give you one of those blue sanitizer thingees that are in urinals,so you can take it out and aim for it.
The Yanks’ seats will have something nostalgic in their price too — the Mets seats are 869 in part because of the “Miracle Mets” of ’69. Perhaps the Yanks will sell their seats for $1125 — $1000 and 125 for each win in ’98. Or $1026 — $1000 and the 26 WS. Or $1262 — $1000 and the 26-2 World Series edge for the Yanks over the RedSawx since the Babe Ruth deal.
They seats are dismantled into several parts than put back together outside of Shea. Than they put on original imprinted seat location as the final touch. What I am saying is the seats that they are selling are not the original seats based on the imprint. To me that takes away from the whole idea and ruins the aura of this package.
I even saw a video where they take off the tops and bottoms of the seats and throw them in a big bin for easier transportation. Than a seat is put back together along with a imprinted seat location.