Gothamist: Lots of Suite Views from the New Yankee Stadium

feelthebuzz

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:44:11 -0500

martini bars at a baseball stadium is cheesy. who the f gets a martini at a baseball game?

Steven

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:57:34 -0500

Major League baseball turned into a business. The mentality is as long as the fans keep coming we will keep raising the prices. I bet more then half of the fans at Yankee Stadium currently are fare weather fans or business exces and their people.

JenChungsBra

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:07:42 -0500

I have been a Yankees fan since the mid-70s and can still name almost the entire roster from the 1977 and 1978 championship teams. But really, it's getting harder and harder to root for this team. Having a payroll that's $75 million more than anyone else takes a lot of fun out of winning, and it sure as hell makes losing tougher to swallow. Enduring douchebags like A-Rod, Jason Giambi, Randy Johnson, etc. takes a toll on the psyche. Giving up one of the most famous and historic stadiums in the world to build this monument to riches is another blow. The entire franchise needs soul-replacement surgery.

citylion

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:56:17 -0500

Also you really need to use some javascript or other dynamic scripting for your slideshows. Reloading the page for each image is unnecessary, though I guess it helps your ad views. - By Politburo I second that on the dynamic scripting. That was how they used to have it and now it's just irritating to view series of photos. I'm less inclined to at all.

Potosi

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:19:25 -0500

It's pretty disgusting all around. It makes me sad I'm such a huge Yankees fan. Although the prices are already so high that I hardly go to games anymore. This year I'm going to go to a ton of Staten Island Yankees Games. Baseball is baseball.

Sommelier

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:04:52 -0500

11,000 fewer seats for those of us fans not fortunate to have chosen investment banking as a profession, even with the Yankees setting records for attendance year after year... and being built with millions of our dollars! Yep, we're standing by while our tax dollars go to help build a stadium that leaves more of us out, but has more suites for billionaires. Wake up!!!!

hslaton

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:53:29 -0500

Absolutely ridiculous. Since when did baseball become an experience "for those of discerning taste"? I love the hell out of this city, but the superrich b.s. is destroying its very soul -- though I guess that's not an entirely new development.

smitty

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:42:49 -0500

This season it's currently at least $26 plus a $6 service charge per seat in the Tier Reserved section - that's $64 for a couple of regular people to go to a game. The only real discounts are for unpopular games (like the upcoming Rays or Blue Jays series) where you can get tickets for cheaper.

Steven

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:36:21 -0500

Like everyone else said here the new Yankee Stadium will be for the corporate exces, wall street, celebrities etc. The average middle class person will be lucky to even attend one game without making a nice dent in the wallet let alone get tickets to the game. The next few years will be close to impossible to get tickets to the new Yankee stadium (for a somewhat reasonable price unless you have some good connections

Novanglus

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:46:45 -0500

I'm glad we're putting our tax dollars towards this instead of actual problems going on in the city. WHEW!

Politburo

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:43:53 -0500

How can the rendering be the "view from home plate" when it shows home plate? Also you really need to use some javascript or other dynamic scripting for your slideshows. Reloading the page for each image is unnecessary, though I guess it helps your ad views.

SP

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:43:28 -0500

It's beautiful, but too fancy. It looks like a hang-out for bankers and lawyers. Where is it most appropriate to throw beer on and spew injurious and lewd insults at children, and their parents, wearing Red Sox, or any other team attire?

ChampionOfTheSun

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:41:00 -0500

While none of this junk has anything at all to do with baseball, and takes away from the game, at least the new Yankee Stadium will have 53,000 seats. Meanwhile, CitiField will only have 45,000, which is 11,000 seats less than Shea. That kills die hard fans more than ridiculous bars and steakhouses that cater to Wall Street and celebrities.

eyekantspel

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:36:18 -0500

Don't forget, those overpriced corporate seats subsidize the overpriced regular seats for the rest of us. Thank you, corporate overlords!

thenamesdave

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:26:52 -0500

Here come the whiners.

smitty

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:14:02 -0500

Yeah, it's pretty terrible. America's Pasttime - but Only If You're A Hedge Fund Manager! You know they are going to raise the price of the nose-bleed seats sky-high as well. At least I'll still be able to get tickets to games against the Rays.

Peter

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:11:28 -0500

I'm surprised the Yankees aren't requiring people to buy PSL's in order to get season tickets.

krunkymunky

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:06:24 -0500

do you have, to buy a ticket, to eat, at the steakhouse?

TimSPC

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:58:46 -0500

Thank god there is somewhere for the superrich to eat and relax. I was worried they would be excluded.

smitty

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:54:05 -0500

no likey.