Comments on: Poking Around The New Digs

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:50:40 +0000

Awesome post, thanks a lot Cliff.

Contradicting everything I said yesterday, I’d love to catch a game at the new park..but agree with Chyll about the security. If I pay good money for my tickets there is no way I’d put up with being spoken too like that..guess have been in uber-polite Japan too long but such behavior really reflects badly on the “Yankee” culture. There have been more than enough complaints about the security over the past few years that they should have addressed it by now.

By: Start Spreading the News

Start Spreading the News — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:32:40 +0000

[8] The Stadium is definitely less accessible to the fan of average means. When the premium tickets were priced the way they were, it forced a lot of fans out of those seats. I have several friends who were doing the M-F package at $50-$70 a seat. They were middle class people who just prioritized the Yankees more than other forms of entertainment. These guys were told that they can’t get the equivalent seats unless they upgrade to the full 81-game package. For my friend that had $70 seats for 41 games, that meant 81 games at $150 each. When finding out how much that package cost, he opted to keep the M-F package but with “cheaper” ($95) seats. In my other friends’ cases, a similar assessment forced them to move upstairs.

I called the Stadium today to see if the 81 game package was available for the Upper Deck ($30) seats. I was told that they were not selling any to new people. It was only available to existing ticket holders. So access to the upper deck cheap seats are diminished because people who can’t afford the Premium seats are taking them.

There is probably a similar effect for game day tickets. Fewer cheap seats will be available to buy since last year’s premium season ticket holders are pushed upstairs.

So the upper deck seats are affordable but there are fewer of them to go around.

By: Raf

Raf — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:12:18 +0000

Nice pics, and nice writeup Cliff

By: Raf

Raf — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:11:58 +0000

“You were never supposed to be in here,” he said. Then, tearing off a corner of my ticket, angrily added, “this is a warning. Don’t ever come back.”

I’d have to come back, on GP.

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:45:39 +0000

All I can say is, “Wow!³”

Thanks very much for this article Cliff! You did a great job, even if you DID pick the Red Sox to win it all this year…

;)

By: Yankster

Yankster — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:06:39 +0000

Thanks for the great write-up – the pictures are so great they gave me chills

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:00:15 +0000

Cliff, thanks so much, its wonderful to see the place in such detail, especially since I doubt I will be able to get there this year (though I’d sure like to). I can’t wait to see what it looks like on TV. If the batters’ eye is truly bad for the players, I hope they complain, loud and often. That may be the one thing that gets the CF monstrosity gone. I can’t imagine sitting in one of those obstructed view seats in the bleachers for an entire game, especially in LF. Ugh.

Though, of all my impressions, the one that stands out is just how ridiculously huge that new video board is. No expense spared there.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:34:25 +0000

Outstanding, exhaustive work Cliff, thank you! That was a real treat.

And I *love* the Abraham bit! It took me about five or six seconds to get it: (“That sounds so familiar…I know that line from somewhere…”) Very, very funny.

By: MichiganYankee

MichiganYankee — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:26:41 +0000

With the upper deck being set way back (as I believe it is in most parks by now — in Comerica for sure), we lose the upper deck home run.

By: Just Fair

Just Fair — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:13:24 +0000

[16] I am pretty sure the Red Sox only tried that green shirt thing once. It was a good try I suppose, but it didn’t take. Sweet recap, Cliff. I’ll be pretty bummed if they don’t get in the game tonight. 3 days. : )