you are embarassing yourself as a yankee fan dude. broadway?

i don’t think i’d spend over 100 on any ticket, unless it’s playoffs. i’m a fan of the $5 seats and maybe a game or two of some nicer seats with friends. i got $40 tickets in the first row of section 420, right behind home plate. IMO, i’d rather sit there then first level outfield.

football sucks live. i was in the 2nd row of a Giant game, 35 yrd line, and thought it sucked. they even won.

the best bands play for under $40 (unless your middle aged and like going on the overpriced ‘greatest hits’ tours of artists from the 70s or 80s that really don’t get along but are getting paid well enough to tour) not really a music festival guy, but $200 for a weekend doesn’t seem too bad.

Also, the fact that the Yankees would spend all this money to build a new stadium that doesn’t have a retractable roof is also ridiculous, but that’s for another post.

I would like to know why, when I went to buy Yankees tickets on tuesday at 10 AM (as soon as they went on sale to the general public) there was no tickets available to buy? I was trying to buy 5 tickets for almost any 1 PM game and I could not find any available that were priced less than $800. Although if I went to StubHub I could buy the tickets I needed for approximatly double the face value. How is this not scalping?

I enjoy your blog. That said, Yankee ticket prices are ridiculous. Every year a group of us meet in a different city to take in a Yankee series. Field Box Level seats just behind third base are usually $50 in Kansas City, Toronto and Seattle to name our recent trips. I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to rationalize the cost of attending in the new Yankee Stadium.

I bought 12 games at $350 per seat. Don’t hate me. I’m not going with my girlfriend. This is a marketing investment so I’ll be taking clients and hot prospects. Given the nature of the services we sell, closing one deal will more than pay for all the tickets. I believe that many prospects will jump at the chance to sit in great seats during Season 1 at Yankee Stadium — and it will help me strengthen relationships and close deals.

All that said, I agree that even the cheaper seats ($100 per seat) are too expensive for many families, which is a shame. The only upside to the higher prices is that perhaps it will keep out the riffraff — the loud-mouthed rowdy drunks.

I wish attendance could consist only of business guys like me (I’m a big fan incidentally) and families. Maybe the secret is to not sell any booze. That would be fine with me.

the stadium will be packed out, trust me. the only reason it isn’t already is the shock value of the new prices. people will get over it. if you don’t have $250 to spend on good seats, guess what, you can’t get good seats anymore… too bad.

don’t you all see how this works, those $2600 seats are only available because they are trying to sell them, where any other year they would be given away to someone on a corporate/partnership deal. i’m sure the very same seats were available last year at the end of the season, because they were trying to capitalize on the final season, where again, the seats would normally have been given away.