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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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

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.

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 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 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.

They let in bags at the new stadium.

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).

spirit of 76 is clearly not an athlete nor has ever played a sport in his life

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.