They get paid millions of dollars because some of us like to do something after work socially besides going home to bitch and complain about shit on our computers. If some of you that are complaining about tickets prices thought ahead and bought season tickets to split among your whining friends you could be going to these games for $20 a pop. Get over it. Im sure you wont be complaining when all these fans have to pay taxes on all the merchandise, tix, go to the bars a fuel economy of that area for well over 81 days a year....

it sucks to get drunk with beers at $9 a pop well its not even beer its bud light....and thats after paying 100 for your tickets...screw that !!! I

Bud Light? Well, they do have it want it, but the old Yankee Stadium had a good beer selection and at the new one it'll probably be better. I drank Beck's last time I was at a Yankee game.

Where do you get a $6 Bud at Yankee Stadium? Last year, they were $8.50-$9. I tried to get single game tickets today and the only ones available were $900 a pop. I'll be watching my games at home this year.

Not to worry. Your taxes will be funding the corporate buying of the expensive seats, which will host those who make decisions for you and sell you things at inflated prices. Including your bleacher beers. How about this? Don't go to a game, don't buy Yankee/Met/MLB crap, don't condone such BS for a year or two, watch soccer or golf or Bassmasters, withdraw from this miasma. There should be some federally funded methadone for baseball people. Folks gripe about obstructed views while some steroidal knucklehead gets paid millions to whack a ball, and they have no job? The only reason such a problem exists is that people are willing to pay for such foolishness. Boycott for a year or two, and see sports and sportsmanship return.

I wish logical, ethical reasoning existed with the MLB so NYers could get comp tickets to the two stadiums we funded. How kick ass would that be?

Give it a month or two and your suggestion might be the way to fill the other 75% of the empty seats in the stadiums.

Something tells me there will be a lot of empty seats in both stadiums come mid season. Actually the sparsity will start showing from the game after opening day.

I hope. I hope. I hope. I get one of the thousands of opening day souvenir collectible programs to go along with my Look and Life magazines special editions collection of the week JFK was assassinated. Can you just imagine what it will be worth on ebay in 2159 at it's diamond jubilee celebration?

The place for the rich.

Or the blind.

It sure looks nice, but they screwed it up. Why would they build a new stadium with so many obstructed view seats. That thing in center field is a major design flaw that will never go away. The best stadium in baseball is still PNC Park. There are no bad seats there...but then you have to watch the Pirates.

"Why would they build a new stadium with so many obstructed view seats."

Because the alternative was simply fewer seats. The seats they're talking about are along the sides of "that thing in center field" (assuming that you weren't talking about Brett Gardner), but almost every stadium has some. As the linked Times article says, Citi Field has some too. In some parks there's no difference in cost for them, and in some they're sold at a reduced price -- the thinking being that some people would rather pay less for an obstructed view than not be at the game at all.

Because the alternative was simply fewer seats.

Or reconfiguring the Mohegan Sun sports bar. Too bad the Yankees didn't just completely sell out and put a hot tub out there like Chase Field in Phoenix.

I know that they can't put seats there, but they didn't need to put a gigantic box in center field right next to the bleacher seats. They could of at least built an open air restaurant with the cafe on top of a hard roof. To put a huge wall between the fans and the rest of the field was bad planning.

I get your point, but "bad planning" implies that there was an unexpected result... like they didn't know there would be obstructed views until they walked into the completed stadium and went "OOPS!"

It was a design decision. There'd have to be some kind of "batter's eye" there anyway (which is why an open air restaurant wouldn't work; too much distraction), and instead of the usual wasted space they decided to monetize the space at the cost of giving some bad views. The restaurant will make more money than those seats would even at their full $12 price, you know?

And that restaurant is a way of getting money off people who don't even care about the ball game. I just cringe at all the weddings that will take place there...

Wow-looks a lot like the OLD stadium... Look what a cool couple a billion can get ya! These new stadiums make me want to hurl. I am glad some folks find pleasure in this-it isn't for me.

"Wow-looks a lot like the OLD stadium... Look what a cool couple a billion can get ya!"

The look, of course, is supposed to be reminiscent of the old stadium. That and the field dimensions are where the similarity ends. This is nothing at all like the old stadium.

Check the dimensions again-they are the same as the old stadium...

Left Field - 318 ft (96.9 m)

Left-Center - 399 ft (121.6 m)

Center Field - 408 ft (124.3 m)

Right-Center - 385 ft (117.3 m)

Right Field - 314 ft (95.7 m)

New one has more bathrooms and more luxury suites, wider concourses.

yeah they really needed a new stadium...