The New York Yankees organization has grown tired of hearing about their empty premium seats. When Bud Selig called in the Yankees and Mets to talk about having to hear about overpriced seats in repeated news cycles, the two New York teams nodded politely and reminded Selig who pays the bills around here. Selig promptly shrugged his famous shrug and backed down.
(Visual representation of the Yankees discussing empty seats at New Yankee Stadium)
Therefore, the Yankees took it very badly when Don Garber, commissioner of Major League Soccer, made a rather unkind comment about those unfilled seats. “It’s incomprehensible,” said Garber, “that you watch a game, and there will be front-row seats empty.” Randy Levine, Yankees president, drilled Garber in his soft underbelly with his own unkindness:
Don Garber discussing Yankee attendance must be a joke. We draw more people in a year than his entire league does in a year. If he ever gets Major League Soccer into the same time zone as the Yankees, we might take him seriously…. Hey Don, worry about Beckham, not the Yankees. Even he wants out of your league.
Meow.
So what’s worse, Randy: having the MLS commish feel like he can poke the bear or having such a sensitive bear that it cares about gnats?
6:57 am on April 26th, 2009
sorry yanks but this is going to be goin on all summer. Many people i know that go to multiple yanks games have said they will once this summer , just to see the new stadium. Then it may be awhile before they return. The insane prices they are charging… hell they wont even let people move down to fill in the good empty seats around the field. I think many people are basicly boycoting them. $500 for a family of four to sit in upper deck seats and get a soda and hotdog each. Or sit at home and watch game on your hdtv with a great view and your family eating hot dogs and soda all nite long for $20. Yeah expect to see empty seats all summer.
11:05 am on April 26th, 2009
for $150 you can get the ENTIRE SEASON of MLB games on your favorite cable company in HD.
that is less than a dollar a game.
and I can watch it at home on my 50 inch HD with my daughter without beer swilling arrogant jerks, parking issues, and save myself TONS of cash.
and I get free instant replay, all the snacks I want, and the quiet of my own home to explain the game to my daughter.
wow….TOUGH choice VS spendig over 500 to attend ONE game…no thanks.
and i am a HUGE baseball fan…and I wouldn't attend a game there.
9:29 pm on April 27th, 2009
New York Red Bulls didn't win the 2008 MLS Cup, but the last time the Yankees were relevant was in 2001. How'd that work out?
Yankee arrogance? Sounds about right. Good start, too…9-10 .474