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.
The New York Yankees have announced that tickets for the New Yankee Stadium wll go on sale to a select few on March 23rd with a general public onsale scheduled for March 24th. In order to get in on the March 23rd presale fans need to fill out a form at Yankees.com and hope to be randomly selected.
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.
One last homestand and ten games are left to be played at Yankee Stadium before the historic ballpark is torn down. Prices for tickets to the remaining games at old Yankee Stadium are going through the roof. One report suggests that bleacher seats for the remaining 10 games are at 100+.
Late Friday the New York Yankees released season ticket pricing information for the $1.3 billion New Yankee Stadium ballpark. Going to a Yankees ballgame will be more expensive in 2009, but the Yankees are keeping some seating affordable. The front part of the area behind the outfield are priced at $100 and $75 if purchased via a season ticket. Behind the bullpen in center are 9 bleacher sections priced at $12, the same as they were in the old Yankee stadium.
New York City tabloids have printed rumors that the Steinbrenner family is looking to top Billy Joel and the New York Mets.
The Steinbrenners are hoping to book Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band or Sir Paul McCartney to perform at Yankee Stadium after the baseball season but before the wrecking ball hits.
Springsteen has just ended his tour, McCartney, who performed with Billy Joel at Shea Stadium, is planning a world tour that begins this fall.
The Yankee Stadium regular-season finale on Sept. 21 game against the Baltimore Orioles will be held at 8:05 pm and will be televised nationally by ESPN. As the Yankees struggle, it looks like they may not make the post season since the early 90’s.
Stubhub has tickets to the last game at Yankee Stadium ranging from $265 for the lowest priced seat all the way up to $65,000 for a single ticket.