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Besides paying more for tickets at the new stadium, some Yankee fans are continuing to take hits. Last night, the Daily News reports, "Hundreds of irate fans - some who claim Yankee employees told them the game had been rained out - stormed away from Yankee Stadium before Monday night's game against the Red Sox even got underway and couldn't get back in, resulting in a an ugly scene at one of the ticket gates." The game, originally scheduled for 7 p.m., didn't start until 9:20 p.m. and some people say that security as well as the employees holding "How may I help you?" signs told them earlier there was no way the game would still go on. Fans trying to get back in had choice words, including, "This is not fan-friendly. This is B.S. You pay money for a top-of-the-line franchise, and you get bottom-of-the-line customer service." Fans, as well as a News reporter, were told to go to the customer service window—which was closed—and security threatened to revoke the credentials of the News photographer who was taking pictures of the madness (see here). The Yankees spokesman emphasized the stadium has a strict no re-entry policy. Update: We forgot to mention that a woman from White Plains was arrested for kicking a cop in the face during the fracas.
Yankee Fans Continue To Get Short End Of Stick
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yankee fans are finally starting to see what the rest of the world has seen in their organization for years.
if you want to have jeter, a-rod, texiera, sabbathia, rivera, pettite, burnett, matsui, damon, posada etc. on the same team, that team is going to need to find ways to make money.
love it or leave it.
That doesn't really make any sense in the context of this incident.
The Yankees make the same amount of money whether or not they re-admit people. In fact, I'd think they'd make more money through readmission, due to increased concession sales.
My guess is that the no re-entry policy is due to the way they 'collect' tickets these days. Ticket barcodes are scanned and that "seat" is filled. If someone comes up to the gate with a duped ticket, they will be rejected.
Now, of course, they could have a exit gate where you could "unscan" your ticket and get back in, but then you would be able to get a beer from your car or at the local bar instead of paying $13 for one.
No-entry policies are in place so that you can't go out to your car for beer. That's the only reason.
And yet people still pay top dollars for this shit show. They deserve every indignity that they get for rewarding this kind of behavior. Congrats on the new taxpayer stadium folks.
what a bunch of incompetent, arrogant assholes the yankee management and staff are. I still want the team to win, but i'm not giving them a fucking dime of my money this season or for the foreseeable future.
The New Yankee Stadium is turning out to be the Isiah Thomas of sports venues - an outrageously expensive embarrassment whose only redeeming virtue is that it's so easy (and fun!) to hate.
Eventually the Yankees will realize when they play to a crowd of seven people that they lost the concept of being a fan based sport. The world does not need a team that performs like a bunch of losers, both physically and mentally, nor does it need to tolerate poor public relations. For God sake, it was raining and the fans had the willingness to watch those den of thieves in the mist and they still got screwed. The organization should have opened the doors to anyone willing to witness yet another debacle.
The whole fiasco with the new stadium is a total embarassment. From the ridiculous ticket prices to not allowing fans down to the lower level for batting practice, it is patently clear that the Yankees organization has no clue about the core base of their fans.
The game should have been called in the afternoon. It's like not the Red Sox are not coming back to the Yankee Stadium for the season. For fans having to wait over TWO HOURS is really disgusting.
Absolutely right. There's no way that people should have had to go to the stadium in the rain to wait two hours to find out if the game was being played, or risk losing the hundreds of dollars they spent on tickets. But then again when I hear a story these days about someone who didn't enjoy their trip to Yankee Stadium I think, well, they got what they deserved.
And this is from a 30+ year Yankee fan!!!!! Are you listening Hank Steinbrenner and Randy Levine and all you fucking assholes running this franchise?!?!?!?!?!? I saved my pennies as a kid to have 25 cents to buy a Reggie bar when a Milky Way cost only 20 cents, and even I'm ready to walk away from this team! I haven't watched one damned game all year! The thought hasn't even crossed my mind to buy a ticket! You fuckheads have totally screwed this whole thing up.
You'd think that the Yankees would want their new $1.5 billion stadium to actually look full for a change. It's not like these people didn't pay. And what's up with starting a Monday night game 2 hours late? It's pretty shitty, but couldn't happen to a more deserving fanbase.
I haven't payed to go to a Yankees game in years and probably won't in the near future. At the very least, I'm boycotting the A-Rod era. When Jeter announces his retirement, I might go for his farewell tour.
The Yankees front office continues to project incompetence in every facet. Free agents, ticket prices, sight-lines, etc... This team needs to be sold.
Remember also it's a business. The Yankees could care less about the average fan. They are looking for the corporations to buy the seats and bring in their rich clients to the games to buy stuff.
That's tragic. I really wish all those people could have gotten in to see the Yankees get humiliated by the Red Sox. Again.
they need to start giving free tix out. and being a yankee fan is still better than being a) from boston or b) a red sox fan.
Karma's a bitch, treat your patrons aka FANS like crap... You LOSE in more ways then one.
I haven't been to a baseball game in years. Growing up I really liked the sport, but the last 10-15 years have killed it for me -- so I just don't watch anymore.
If you're just an average fan, forget it -- if you can afford seats, you're treated like a second-class citizen. You're steerage, just filling up the stadium to provide atmosphere for the corporate clients in the good seats.
If there's a way they can gouge you, they will -- beer, parking, whatever. It's all about the money, and as long as there are suckers willing to pay it (and there are), they can do whatever they want. And, hey, more power to them -- I think the antitrust exemption should be lifted, but otherwise they're free to make money if there are suckers willing to give it to them.
But I don't have to be one. What I've learned is that you just can't care what happens to the sport. I don't go to games anymore, and I couldn't tell you if the Yankees are great this year or suck this year. I just don't care.
And, look, I don't harbor any illusions that my refusal to pay attention will "bring down" the sport, or that there will ever be a mass uprising of non-suckers who will take back the game -- there won't be. But as long as I've got the sense God gave me, I don't have to be a sucker, and I don't have to pay attention to MLB and its "fans-last" approach. Simple as that.
Come on now. There they are bottom of the ninth down one run, two outs, bases loaded, Jeeter is up with a three two count. And you turn off the TV?
Never turned it on in the first place.
the issue here is that Yankees Management wont allow customers back into the back upon exit... (even in the event of rain)... I think thats the true waste here... They need to figure out a system of IDing those people that come into the stadium and want to leave because of rain or what not... I think its madness that with all the technology we have they cant handle this problem
"This is not fan-friendly. This is B.S. You pay money for a top-of-the-line franchise, and you get bottom-of-the-line customer service."
Correction: FORMERLY top-of-the-line franchise. This is the 21st century.
Forever in the glory days.
Considering Bud Selig called off an All Star game in 2002 because the teams ran out of pitchers-this spectacle last night doesn't surprise me one bit. As long as they have your money in hand, the fans can go fuck themselves... Buy a Yankee umbrella and a Yankee rain slicker while you are at it! There are suckers born every minute and they will continue to gobble up baseball tickets at ridiculous prices. Going to a ball game is supposed to be fun.
I would rather go to Citi Field than Yankee Stadium. WTF is up with their discriminatory bag policy? Guys can't bring a backpack or whatever, but give that same backpack to a girl, and all of a sudden it's OK? Fuck the Yankees.
second this
spirit of 76 is clearly not an athlete nor has ever played a sport in his life
And what, exactly, is wrong with that?
if you can't understand why you would go to a game to watch people play, it means you dont appreciate the sport and probably have never played. there's nothing wrong with it.
You are clearly an idiot who spends too much time watching sports. Just because some of us forgo spectating, we don't like participating? aveB4life now joins the legendary ranks of ides_of_march and thefacts as Gothamist commenters who make no sense.
"Just because some of us forgo spectating, we don't like participating?" Change "don't like participating" to "are too fat to participate". don't take it out on me that no one picked you in gym class. go enjoy the theater. you're fat.
Wow. Just wow. You really are an unmitigated imbecile. Just keep digging yourself deeper into a hole with your ridiculous assumptions and accusations.
I once actually asked a yankee security guard point blank when he refused to let me in with my bag "if i gave this bag to a woman, would you let her carry it in?" and he said "Yes". Thanks for remind me of one of the other reasons i hate yankee stadium (old or new).
They let in bags at the new stadium.
I grew up in this city and was a Yankee fan right from the start. In recent years, however, I have found that this organization has done nothing but rip off it's fans as well as the public. This stadium was built largely from public money and then the ticket prices are sky high and now treatment like this. If you have employees that tell you the game is called causing you to leave and then then game goes on, you should be allowed back in regardless of the policy.
Major league baseball is no longer worth the price.
Amen. I grew up a Yankees fan and will always root for The Bronx Bombers, but the Yankees' management has been outright awful for years. Just the idea that they would fathom tearing down The House that Ruth Built shows that they are all about greed. They have no problem screwing the city and the fans in pursuit of the all mighty dollar. I'll never defect to another team, but I won't be shelling out my cash for tickets at the new stadium.
I can't say that I understand this fascination with a mere game, paying quite a few dollars to watch a bunch of grown men mostly stand around and occasionally run around a field. I'd rather go to a good movie, sit in fairly comfortable seats instead of hard ones and watch a good, large image rather than something happening a hundred feet or more away. It still costs less, not to mention the theater operators have never asked for taxpayers to foot the bill for their construction expenses. Oh, and they let you re-enter as long as you have your ticket stub. That senile Steinbrenner can suck it for all I care.
"not to mention the theater operators have never asked for taxpayers to foot the bill for their construction expenses"
Taxpayers? No. Theater-goers? Hell yes.
Arguably, business owners always pass construction costs onto customers. The difference with the sports stadiums is that even if you're not a customer, you're paying as long as you live in the city. When was the last time a theater operator demanded tax exempt bonds or tax breaks else they leave the city for greener pastures? Besides, last I saw, movie tickets were still cheaper than the cheapest bleacher seats in Yankee stadium, where you get to sit on hard planks while you strain to watch a bunch of players so far away that you can barely see them.
I just got my mets/phillies tickets for $25, maybe I'll get a hot dog and a couple beers while I'm there...$40 for a nice night out against the team I would castrate if I got the chance, not too awful bad. go mets.
yankee stadium sucks.
I just got my mets/ World Series Champion Phillies tickets for $25, maybe I'll get a hot dog and a couple beers while I'm there...$40 for a nice night out against the team I would castrate if I got the chance, not too awful bad. go mets.
yankee stadium sucks.
fixed.
The yankess are just a high price team. Nothing more they no longer rep New York. They represent $$$. Frankly, I think the game should be played with local players. If you want to play on a team you have to live the state. All this oh he is a good player from Cali, Here is $25 mil come play with us. All sports should be localized. /end rant
All I hear is "yankees suck cause of the new stadium but I'm still a fan, Blah, blah blah". How about the fact that a lot of the players have abused steroids like Pettite, clemens, knoblauch, Sheffield, and pretty boy AROID? There are a whole bunch of other Yankees who've been on the juice too but I don't have time to look them up, and those are only the guys who've been caught, I'm pretty sure the coach girardi was pumping the shit too by the looks of his square head. The Yankees as a whole are conducive to many performance enhancing drugs and the MLB too but it totally destroys the integrity of the sport. To pay top dollar to watch drug users make millions to influence your children is not how I'm gonna spend my hard earned money.
if i were in the big leagues i'd def take steroids. more return vs. risk.
The Yankees don't really care about 90 percent of the seats at the stadium. They want the revenue from the luxury boxes and the premium seating. The don't care much about the average seats. If they did, they would have built more than there were in the old stadium, not fewer.
The real money comes from television. If you subscribe to cable you are helping to support the team. Regardless of whether you watch the games or not, the YES Network gets about $2 per month from your cable bill, even in the off season. So to everyone that said they don't go to the games because of the way the teams treats the fans, rest assured that they prefer it this way. They already have your money.
Steinbrenner Sr., for all his faults, at least was hungry enough to want a winning, and competitive, team, and would be involved in almost all details of the Yankees operations.
The current "braintrust" - Steinbrenner children and spouses and associates - all grew up in the cocoon of wealth and success, and don't seem to have the kind of drive the old man had. These are the kind of spoiled children that don't really care about having a winning team, or making the game enjoyable and comfortable for the fans. These Steinbrenner children don't seem to understand the concept of hard work, and putting out a good, quality product. They have never had to work, and probably don't even know how.
That's reflected in the new Yankee Stadium, and the new Yankees.
The highlight of the night for me was when a group sitting next to me had 4 partial season tickets but there was only three that existed. I have 12 weekday/night games in Grandstand, Section 413, Seats 20-23. They had same section and row but seats 24-27. The problem the row ends at 26. A suit from the yankees came up with a clip board and inspected all seat numbers. Did not stick around to see how it ended but its nice to see the Yankees are selling ticket for seats that don't exist.
A billion dollar stadium and Yankees management finds it too unreasonable to stamp people's hands? If they don't want people leaving the stadium to get drunk during the 7th inning stretch, I understand that, but that should not apply to BEFORE the game even starts.
Off topic: wouldn't it make sense to provide a significant discount to residents of NYC who want to buy tickets? Similar logic should apply to all teams and their local fanbase (for publicly-funded stadiums/parks).
The Yankees don't want or need fans. They just need a few billionaires and a couple TV cameras to prop up the illusion of a baseball empire. At this stage, anyone who pays to see a baseball game is complicitous with a huge fraud.