CHEAP YANKEES TICKETS NEWS

In the first season at the Yankees’ New Stadium, the Yankees have won the World Series over the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2.  This was the Yankees first World Series victory since 2000.

The World Series heads back to New Yankees Stadium for game six versus the Philadelphia Phillies.  Looks to be over 10,000 tickets available on the reseller sites, so if you wait long enough you can get cheap tickets for tonight’s game.

The Yankees are on the verge of playing the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2009 World Series. Yanks are up against the Anaheim Angels at the New Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees announced via press release that 2009 postseason ticket pricing for playoff games at Yankee Stadium will not be sharply increase the cost of attending the playoff game this year.

The press release touted that prices for “the vast majority” of postseason tickets will in fact be less than those for equivalent seating for the ‘07 playoffs at the old Yankee Stadium, according to a news release.

American League Division Series tickets for full-season ticket licensees (not including suites) will cost the same as regular-season tickets, and full-season ticket licensees of $325 Field Level seats will only pay $275 for the ALDS.

In ‘07, the club charged 30-130 percent more for seats in the ALDS compared to the regular season.

For full-season ticket licensees, prices will range from $5-$275 per ticket for the ALDS, $10-$350 for the AL Championship Series and $50-$425 for the World Series.

Full-season suite licensees in the Legends Suite, Delta Sky360 Suite and Jim Beam Suite — all of whom have already paid their suite license fees — will pay $65-$275 per suite ticket for the ALDS, $115-$350 for the ALCS and $150-$425 for the World Series.

For each postseason game, the first opportunity to purchase tickets is provided to season-ticket holders, which represents more than 37,000 fans. The Yankee Stadium capacity is 50,235, excluding standing room.

In addition, Major League Baseball directs clubs to dedicate approximately 5,500 tickets per ALDS game, 7,000 per ALCS game and 9,500 per World Series game for players of the participating clubs and to accommodate the media.

Non-suite tickets for public sale will range from $5-$375 for the ALDS, $10-$400 for the ALCS and $50-$425 for the World Series. A handling fee will be added in all cases.

A public-sale date has not been announced.

You can find a few 7 or 10 dollar Yankees tickets on Stubhub but you can barely see the ball park.  The Yankees are seven games over the Red Sox, The more the Yankees win, the more the seats go up in value.  Everyday more tickets  go up in value.  They way the Yankees have clobbered the Red Sox, Buy tickets before its too late.

The New York Yankees and New York Mets continue their interleague Subway Series beginning tonight in what will be the first of a three game series at New Yankees Stadium.  The teams begin play tonight with first pitch at 7:05 p.m. tonight, first pitch at 4:10 on Saturday and 1:05 on Sunday.  The Yankees and the Mets will meet again at Citi Field June 26th-28th.  The Yankees are still sore from being swept by the Boston Red Sox three games straight at Fenway Park.  It will be very interesting how many of the high priced seats located near homeplate are empty as well as how many home runs both teams hit.

Peter Gammons calls the New Yankees Stadium the biggest joke in baseball.  I mean come on, everyone who wants to see a game at the new stadium can get reasonably priced tickets, there are bargains galore tobe had as long as you are willing to go mid-week and see the Yankees play a team other than the Mets, Red Sox or Phillies.  If the Yankees continue theor massive current win streak, the ticket prices will go up.

The New York Yankees have just announced that the team will lower the pricing of some premium season tickets by up to 50% offering refunds and free tickets to some customers who purchased $2500 Legends premium tickets and $1000 infield tickets.  The Yankees hope this will help to solve the problems with empty premium seats.

The New York Yankees are stating publicly that they are not worried about the number of empty premium seats at the New Yankees Stadium in the Bronx, New York.

Since the stadium opened fans have noticed a large number of empty seats along the first and third base lines and in the luxury box suites.

The Yankees took information about the selling price on the secondary market over the past few years to price these seats to upwards of $350 each.  The Yankees publicly state they are not worried about the empty seats because it is still early in the season and are anticipating what the sales for those seats will be during highly sought series versus the Red Sox and NY Mets.

Yankees fans are also still upset with the way the Yankees organization downgraded the seats of fans with partial ticket plans.

The Yankees announced last week that they will raise ticket prices in 2010.

Stubhub, the leading online ticket marketplace reports that it has listed over 9,000 tickets available for the Yankees’ final regular season game ever at Yankee Stadium vs the Baltimore Orioles scheduled for September 21st.

The average ticket selling price for Orioles-Yankees is $400.  The most expensive ticket sold for the finale was a $3,500 ticket sold last month.  Stubhub reports that the Orioles-Yankees game is the best selling MLB game (regular and postseason!) in Stubhub history, based on dollar volume although in gross dollars the Yankees All-Star game was higher.