Old Stadium dismantling to commence
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on May 11, 2009 
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The Yankees will announce their plans to sell off seats and other memorabilia from the old Stadium tomorrow. There will be a press conference with Steiner Sports, which is organizing the sale.
The items being sold include seats, sod, dirt and bricks from Monument Park. They’re going to sell everything they can from the old place, bank on that. Bank being the key word.
From what I’ve been told by several e-mailers who were already contacted by Steiner, seats will be $1,500 a pair and there will be assorted other packages. I’m sure the Steiner Sports web site will have more details this week.
UPDATE, 6:01 p.m.: This from the AP:
New York City will receive $11.5 million from the Yankees in exchange for giving the team rights to sell off seats, signs and other memorabilia from their old ballpark.
OK, so the city gets $11.5 million. If the Yankees sell 40,000 seats at $750 a pop ($1,500 a pair is the price), that’s $30 million. Then add in whatever they get for bricks, dirt, signs, etc.
Do you think Yankee execs wear masks and carry guns to these negotiations? They’re going to score big on this one. They’ll sell every single piece of that place, from the flagpoles on top down to the last brick on the bottom.
But you know what? Good for them. They’re selling it only because there’s a market for it.
“From what I’ve been told by several e-mailers who were already contacted by Steiner, seats will be $1,500 a pair”
Is it extra for the stale beer and mustard smell?
Brandon Steiner, the biggest leech in all of professional sports.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!….there goes my heart..
Steiner Sports has basically ruined collecting. It’s a shame.
The only good news is that if they can’t find people to pay $1500 to sit in seats at a game, they probably won’t find that many who want to take old beat-up seats home at that price.
I hope one day we can attend Steiner’s bankruptcy sale.
The old seats are already going for $85 on StubHub.
Nick – good one
Also liked the one about fistpumping in NJ
What a joke and a shame. Yeah, I’m sure you’re getting real stadium sod/dirt. That crap could come from anywhere. They should be providing such items to season ticket holders as a goodwill gesture.
How about this: “Hey, look son, I just bought us the urinal from the old Yankee stadium clubhouse. For just $10,000! Can you just picture all the great Yankees who took a leak on it?”
Damon AL player of the week.
So atleast we’re past the fist pumping crap.
This is unseemly and exploitive. People should just say no and refrain from buying anything.
Is it not too late to put the Yankees back in Yankee Stadium and tear down the new one instead?
“Damon AL player of the week.”
Good. I was afraid they’d have to name it after Longoria if someone didn’t step up.
Great week for Damon. The homers and rbi are great, but even better was the spots in the game when he was hitting them.
Great. I would love to have a piece of the old Stadium, but with Steiner selling it off I can expect to spend $100 for a 1″ square paint chip. It’s bad enough that the average fan is priced out of good seats at the new Stadium, but now those same fans can’t even afford memorabilia from the place they called home for 86 years. ***sigh***
Agreed Steve, this team would be in deep dog doo doo if not for Damon and his timely hitting. The guy can’t play the field too well any more, but he can still hit. If it wasn’t for the fact that Posada is going to end up DH’ng for the next 3 years, I’d say sign Johnny as the full-time DH for a couple of more years. As it is, I think he ends up returning to KC as their DH and 4th outfielder next year.
The Yankees should play with half the chip on their shoulders that some of their fans seem to have developed.
I scraped my own paint chip off the stadium at my last game there
Not planning to allow Steiner to resell…
Stadium memorabilia viewing on Tuesday:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/articl.....Id=rss_nyy
Haven’t they learned their lesson re: overpricing seats yet? $1,500, really? The last time the stadium was renovated, they were giving seats away. I don’t think they’re factoring in the economy again
Rishi…but you don’t have that great letter of authenticity.
Vader
May 11th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Rishi…but you don’t have that great letter of authenticity.
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Fair enough – I have a picture of me doing it
I think I can probably live without it
re: Joba’s Fist Controversy
When Papelbon struck out the side last night, he did a triple fist pump, scream at the top of his lungs, i just one a million dollar poker hand, this is the most exciting moment of my life type celebration.
Not that he shouldn’t have felt that way having struck out the side after putting the tying run 90 feet away. But not one commentator on ESPN said anything about it, and I haven’t heard anyone mention it since.
JEESH- Almost as much for thes seats as the seats @ the new stadium…..
You think NESPN is going to rip thier baby please man. We’ve known Joba to do that pump, but when Papelbum does his jerk off pump nothing ever gets said b/c it’s classy duh…
Someone check my math…
Assuming most of the seats are in sellable condition (50k), meaning they sell 25,000 pair – at 1,500 per pair thats 37 million dollars – just for the seats. Someone please tell me my government education did me right…
Math seems right to me, Jack B. I wonder how much they’re going to sell the bleacher benches for??
The whole nature of collectibles is that you try to find unusual and somewhat rare items. The “Steiner effect” of monetizing absolutely everything is just going to be make everything that much less …neat. Not to mention less valuable and less FUN. There’s a word you don’t hear bandied about the Bronx much anymore.
@Rishi…
I did the same thing.
Jack B:
The math is on the money. Bigger question is whether there are 25,000 parties stupid enough to drop $1500 for a pair of uncomfortable chairs.
When I was a little boy (in 1976) I filled up a small bottle with Yankee Stadium dirt (after a game ended). One of the security guards helped me.
I wonder what would have happened to me if I tried that last season.
If only we could move back into the old stadium
He would have “helped you” out of the stadium, face first.
Oh, one more thing. LONN TROST SUCKS!
BJK
Papelsmear’s girlfriend (or wife, or his sister, or some of his teammates’ wives) would probably say he even pumps his fist after he (insert obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent act here) …. do we hear anything about THAT in the news or in Selena Roberts’ Book?
It sure is tempting to cross the lines of the Terms of Service, I tell ya!
Jack B -
The seats in the bleachers were all benches, although I don’t know how many. So maybe you’re only looking at a paltry 28-30 million bucks.
I wonder how they’ll ever break even on this deal.
You have to wonder who advises the business side of the operation these days.
One would think, given the entire new stadium fiasco with ticket prices, they wouldn’t be looking to hose people on collectibles.
Some of their decisions are real headscratchers.
It would have been smarter for them to donate half the proceeds to charity. At least LOOK like you sympathetic to regular folks.
People talk about, “What would George do if he was still George” when it comes to the on field product.
What’s more interesting to me is what he would be doing on the business side.
There is NO WAY some of these folks would still be in their jobs. Nor would all of this ill-timed, not thought out well business concepts be coming down the pike.
George isn’t missed with the on field product because his meddling often did more harm than good.
He is DEEPLY missed on the business side.
I never thought I would say that but, that’s how bad some of these folks are running the business side of the operation. Particularly everything surrounding the new stadium.
Did they really expect to be able to put a $2650 price tag on a single game regular season ticket, say ‘its a good value’ and have people waiting in line to gobble them up?
SJ:
Agree with you on this. Steinbrenner was, and to the degree he can function, probably is still a pretty charity conscious individual.
He’s missed in many ways.
SJ44
You have to wonder who advises the business side of the operation these days.
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I believe that Randy Levine’s input is usually determinative.
I have to say, pete has been dead on this week. First, about the selena book and now, about this ridiculous discussion about joba’s celebrating after doing well. No one in the world should care about how the orioles clubhouse views joba and the only thing yankee fans should care about is how he does and whether we win obviously. I am far more concerned about his shaky first innings. I am sure it is being addressed and thas all that matters.
Five years ago these pricepoints would have been viable. Not now. The product on the field is too far removed from the dynasty days and the economy is too far down the toilet for seats, both new and old, to sell at the prices they have set. You can almost forgive them for setting them so high initially, but not being sensitive to the obvious pressures of the economy is really, REALLY embarrassing.
“If we TELL people it’s a good value, they’ll BELIEVE it’s a good value.”
Why didn’t they go for $5000 per game? The figure they came up with was halfway between ‘reasonable’ and that. What’s a couple thousand bucks more or less between friends?
“Did they really expect to be able to put a $2650 price tag on a single game regular season ticket”
They’ve cut ‘em in half and it still not a good value. I’m sure they had to have done some research on this, but obviously not enough.
Steve B -
“Yes, and half price (of $2650?) is a great discount!”
IMO, I don’t care if some marketing genius (or anti-genius) believs he can convince the public that enough rich folks will buy $1300 seats. Tickets for a regular season baseball game just aren’t worth that much. Not for the world series, we’re talking REGULAR SEASON games of which there are 81. Let’s start at 10% of the ‘discount rate’ for the premium seats and see how many more people want to sit down there.
Steve B – They didn’t figure on corporations not being able to afford them. Even at the cut rates, a pair of those tickets, for 81 games, is still around $200,000. AIG is advising its employees to forgo wearing company apparel because of the repercussions, they’re certainly going to think twice about dropping for the kind of conspicuous consumption that is these premium seats. At least in the luxury suites they can’t be seen.
I think the Yankees were looking at what StubHub and other secondary markets were showing tickets to go for, and decided they could charge that much too – I think Mike in H’burg is right… as much as I hate StubHub and the like, the value of a ticket, like anything else, is what someone will pay for it…
GZA
Bill Gates might be interested in buying all the memorabilia, but he’s got to put that on hold until he can save enough cash for a regular season ticket near the playing field.
Sorry to be a party-pooper, but anyone who can afford this nonsense in today’s day and age should be giving money to charity!!
They are not going to sell all those seats.
They will probably destroy the excess or “sell” them to Steiner…I doubt they would lower the price.
I would pay 200 bucks for a pair.
Who cares.
It’s a building. I’d like to but the seats but I’d rather keep my right arm than sell it to science to get the money for it, thank you.
Save Gate 2!
but=buy.
Shea seats were $869 a pair. Wonder how many they sold?
pat-Which means one seat (not a pair) from our stadium is at least twice as much.
I’d never thought I’d say this but I miss George Steinbrenner. He would never stand for the crap that is happening today. This team is a disgrace;not only how they are playing but also the disgusting everything is for sale mentality. How about giving those seats to charity or something. Absolutley Horrible.
Mike-You’re right, George only dismantled a two time championship team and renovated the old stadium to cram in more seats and charge more money. BBesides, the team just one two of three. It’s early and we’re on our way up, so don’t overreact.
One B in besides and one is won.
To be perfectly honest, I expected the seats to be priced a little higher. I’d love to have some but I’m still not sure I could mentally justify paying that much, especially since I’m not sure exactly what I’d do with them.
Hey I never said the guy was a saint or anything. But you have to admit things would be very different if he was still around.
Teixeiramvp (I’m keeping the faith) (Not the troll):
Mike-You’re right, George only dismantled a two time championship team and renovated the old stadium to cram in more seats and charge more money. BBesides, the team just one two of three. It’s early and we’re on our way up, so don’t overreact.
A standing ovation for SJ44′s 3:39 post. He’s 100% correct. Even Bill Madden got this one right in yesterday’s Daily News.
I was crushed when I attended my first game last week. Besides getting screwed on our plan and seats, I was deeply disappointed at just how evident it is that there is a caste system in place at the new ballfield. I was embarrassed to come home and describe to people the moat. When you see the obstructed view the restaurant brings to the Bleachers it hits you between the eyes where Trost/Levine/Hal Steinbrenner’s priorities are. When you have to wait for the center field screen/scoreboard to cycle before you can read the line score, you know this ballpark wasn’t designed by anyone who knows anything about the game or what real fans are looking for.
The place is an amusement park and not worthy of the name Yankee Stadium. Tear the damn thing down and get it right. Better yet, come to terms with the fact that it’s going to be a long time before luxury seats are any company’s priority and give us back the real Yankee Stadium.
Teix
Pete’s post says $1500 a pair not per seat.
$100 for a Shane Spencer bat? Ooooooohhhhhhh There’s something I’ll just have to have!!!!!!
They should sell raffle tix for a chance to win a supermarket sweep style, money box, grab what you can in 60 seconds thing at the old stadium. You would have people lined around the block for days with sledges, pick axes and shovels for a chance at that.
How much are the toilet seats going for ?
Madden was absolutely right in his ” Dear George ” letter yesterday. The seats inside the moat represent greed and elitism. Too bad George has slowed to a crawl. Trost and Levine should be fired.
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