CHEAP YANKEES TICKETS NEWS

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.

The New York Yankees are planning a special concert for November to close out the old Yankee Stadium. Rumored performers are Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney as well as almost every living retired Yankee. The date of the event may be scheduled for November 8, 2008.

UPDATE:  The Yankees have decided that in the grand tradition of the Yankees and Yankees Stadium, a baseball game was the appropriate way to close out the old Yankees Stadium and there will be no final concert at Yankee Stadium.

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.