Comments on: News of the Day – 3/20/09

By: williamnyy23

williamnyy23 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:30:37 +0000

[16] That was my goal too (be at the last and first)…I got 4 $1.10 seats to the Friday game and bought probably a very similar seat to the Saturday exhibition because I likely wont be seating in those seats very often.

On the whole, I spent less money than last year for the same amount of tickets that I normally get (about 20 games when combined with my Firday plan). I know the horror stories are out there, but my experience with the New Stadium has been very pleasant (at least to this point).

By: Cliff Corcoran

Cliff Corcoran — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:07:49 +0000

I got the only thing I wanted: some choice field box seats to the first game against the Cubs, third base side in line with the RF foul line about half way up the field level: $50 each (normally $325 seats).

I’ll be able to say I was at the last game at Yankee Stadium and the first game at the new stadium. As for the rest of it, I’ll wait for the market correction to come and/or satisfy myself with HDTV.

By: MichiganYankee

MichiganYankee — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:47:12 +0000

Considering that Pavano accounted for nearly a third of lost $31 million last year, I’m not sure how Carroll came up with the “negative trend.”

It’s tough to compare A-Rod to Matsui vis-a-vis the “iron man syndrome.” Matsui is a big guy who roamed center field every day for 10 years on artificial turf. While the wrist injury was a fluke, the knees were bound to go. A-Rod does not carry such a red flag.

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:38:01 +0000

I tried for them first thing, I was shocked how quickly 2 seats in the LF bleachers (236 I believe) came up.

By: williamnyy23

williamnyy23 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:34:22 +0000

[12] I couldn’t get an Opening Day tickets (at least not yet)..or at least not at the available price when I got through. Right now, if you want to pay $800, singles are available…just in case anyone else is interested.

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:32:04 +0000

yeah we all had no idea about the $5 games until today, it was a nice little surprise for some of the games obviously.

we just got sick of waiting around for the Yankees to finally send us a letter that our plan was now on a “waiting list” or offer us something completely out of our price range after hearing nothing for months. I think we keep our seniority/account # regardless, so we’d be eligible for postseason pre-onsale and whatnot. All’s well that end’s well.

I was thinking about going for the Cubs games, but I’m corny. I want opening day to be the first time I set foot in the place.

By: williamnyy23

williamnyy23 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:27:25 +0000

It was also pretty cool to order 4 grandstand tickets to the Cubs game for a total charge of $7.65.

By: williamnyy23

williamnyy23 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:26:31 +0000

[9] Not a bad idea, especially because the partial plans aren’t guaranteed playoffs anyway.

One thing I noticed is that the prices seemed to change based on the dates, even though the Yankees don’t list variable pricing or discount promotions on the website. For example, I bought 6 bleacher seats to the 6/17 game against the Nats and the seats were $5 each (and they are in 236, which is far from the obstruction).

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:22:06 +0000

well I’m a jilted partial plan holder, so my seatmates and I built a 12 game midweek plan through the presale and anything that was face value on stubhub. There’s 3 of us so we each got 3 tickets to 4 games.

all told we got:
Opening Day
4/20 vs Oak
4/30 vs Ana
5/7 vs TB
5/19 vs Bal
6/3 vs Tex
6/17 vs Was
7/2 vs Sea
7/21 vs Bal
8/10 vs Tor
9/8 vs TB
9/28 vs KC

per person it came to about what we paid last year. I figure I’ll probably end up with tickets to a couple of Boston or Mets games during the course of the year, someone always seems to have an extra.

By: williamnyy23

williamnyy23 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:13:58 +0000

[7] What’d you get?

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:12:09 +0000

well I’m just back from the presale, that took about 5 years off my life and the life of my Visa

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:11:18 +0000

Will this be the new norm for him? . . .

No.

This was another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

By: williamnyy23

williamnyy23 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:46:36 +0000

If anyone is a season ticket holder, the Yankees are holding their pre-sale right now. Opening Day seems sold out, but the exhibitions against the Cubs are still available.

By: Cliff Corcoran

Cliff Corcoran — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:30:01 +0000

And Teixeira. (well, Rodriguez too, but that didn’t work out)

This is why I was so insistent on the Yankees signing Teixeira, everything he is is something they needed: young, big bat, great glove, healthy, first baseman.

Take Tex out of the lineup, out of the health report, out of the defensive analysis, out of the team’s average age, each of those things gets ugly fast.

By: Diane Firstman

Diane Firstman — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:24:26 +0000

[2]

The only “greens” were Cano, Cabrera and Sabathia, as I recall ….

By: tommyl

tommyl — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:57:03 +0000

[1] Good stuff but somewhat worrying. Nearly every key player is red or yellow. That does not bode well. At least we finally have some pitching depth in both the rotation and pen this year.

By: Cliff Corcoran

Cliff Corcoran — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:47:33 +0000

Big newsflash from Newsday on Matsui clogging up the DH slot. Why is everyone acting like this is news? Matsui played 24 games in the field last year versus 66 at DH and is now coming off an additional knee surgery.

Meanwhile, good stuff from Brad Wochomurka on the Team Health Report.