Yankee game in 2009

[metsbats]

So I'm planning on taking my family to the new Yankee Stadium and went on line to www.yankees.com (http://www.yankees.com) to check out some tickets. I punched in for the second game ever verses Cleveland on Aug 17th and asked for the best seats available.

I got back 4 field level tickets for a whopping $900 per ticket :eek:

Needless to say I'm going to shoot for some bleacher tickets unless the $900 tickets allows one to sit on Jeter's lap between innnings!

[yanks12025]

Thats why you never punch in best available because it's always the highest priced ones. I just bought two for the first game against the cubs for $47 each(up in the tier's by 3rd base).

[Skillz]

Bleacher are the most fun anyway!

[yanks12025]

I have a quick question and maybe someone can help me out. I bought my two tickets from stubhub and i did the print at home. When i printed them they both came out on two pages. Is that fine or should i make them smaller to fit on one page. When i make them smaller the bar code gets smaller and i don't know if that would mess anything up. Thanks

[kylehess10]

unless the $900 tickets allows one to sit on Jeter's lap between innings!


A-Rod already purchased season tickets for those seats

[metsbats]

Now I know why Yankee fans get so mad when their team doesn't make it into the playoffs! At those prices you expect to see a winning team.

[bigtime59]

Yet another reason why Yankee$ and Red $ox fans are such a pestilential presence in Baltimore: it's cheaper to pay for transportation, hotel and seats here than it is for just the seats there. It will be very interesting to see if the Yankee$ have pulled the same moronic stunt the Nationals did last year and priced their most prominent seats into emptiness.

[BULBUS]

Yet another reason why Yankee$ and Red $ox fans are such a pestilential presence in Baltimore: it's cheaper to pay for transportation, hotel and seats here than it is for just the seats there. It will be very interesting to see if the Yankee$ have pulled the same moronic stunt the Nationals did last year and priced their most prominent seats into emptiness.

??????? ........ Not all seats are $900. Yes, that is ridiculous, and yes, they will probably be empty for a lot of the games, but most seats in the stadium are priced on par with other stadiums.

[suave1477]

??????? ........ Not all seats are $900. Yes, that is ridiculous, and yes, they will probably be empty for a lot of the games, but most seats in the stadium are priced on par with other stadiums.

Bulbus I am not sure if they are on par with other stadiums but even as a Yankee fan myself the new prices are outrageous

Here is comparison prices
2008 I sat in the rightfiled first row - purchased ticket from the Yankees $5
2009 same seat - $60

Year before I bought great tickets for face value from a member here for I believe was about $50 or $60 a ticket about 20 rows back from the field between home and third
2009 same seat - $150

Tell me there isn't something deeply wrong here???

Now people can argue well the bleacher seats or upper deck mezzanine seats are not that expensive. But guess what?? I dont want to sit there!!
In the last stadium I was not forced to sit there because even as expensive as they were back then, they were still somewhat affordable.

I am not saying I can't afford these prices but the truth of it is I don't want to pay these prices and it is not fair that I cannot enjoy the game from the seats I prefer because the Yankees outrageously raised up there ticket prices.

[Vintagedeputy]

Yet another reason why Yankee$ and Red $ox fans are such a pestilential presence in Baltimore

Wow, glad to know that my spending dollars are welcomed in Charm City!

[stretch]

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Maybe some of you can get some use out it.

[yanks12025]

suave1477,
Was your $5 first row in the upper deck, because the tickets right down by the field were alot more than $5.

[suave1477]

suave1477,
Was your $5 first row in the upper deck, because the tickets right down by the field were alot more than $5.

No mine were right down by the field about 2 seats to the left of the foul pole. I was pissed too because I missed catching Posada's Home Run:mad:

it hit the cement inches in front of em and bounced back onto the field.

I actually seen a video on mlb of the home run and if you do not blink your eye you can actually see me sticking my hand out to catch the ball lol lol

[yanks12025]

Well you go lucky then because when ever i went to the seating and pricing they were always listed at around $40-45.

And the upper deck aint that bad if you get them around home-plate.

[BULBUS]

well, i just checked out the ticket pricing, and :eek: i use to go to about 20 games a season in the 90's. then after winning a few world series, ticket prices went up and i stopped going. what i paid 25 bucks for in 1996, is now around $250 (300 on gameday).

i also checked the mets pricing and if you go to a "premium" game, their prices are higher than the yanks.

unless someone gives me free tickets, i'm only going to one game this year. my friend has the sunday plan, and i bought a pair from him, 45 buck a tickets for lower uppers. i'll just keep watching on tv in hd.

[metsbats]

??????? ........ Not all seats are $900. Yes, that is ridiculous, and yes, they will probably be empty for a lot of the games, but most seats in the stadium are priced on par with other stadiums.

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/ticketing/seating_pricing.jsp


Absolutely. As Yanks1205 pointed out I asked for the best available. When I try this on the Mets site I get the blue collar prices. Not being a Yankee fan I never realized the "premium seats" were astronomically priced!

There are very reasonable priced seats (check out the link) within the average fan's reach.