Sure, when it comes to professional sports it seems as though most New Yorkers are pretty focused on football, basketball and hockey these days. But the next never ending baseball season is right around the corner. How do we know? Because while the Mets are selling off their crap, yesterday the Yankees started their annual select a seat event—in which season ticket holders can trade up their seats. And boy, those premium tickets ($1575 per game available only for all games!) still rankle. As our spy put it, they "make the ones five rows back from home plate for $260-a-pop seem a positive steal..."
Photos: Yankees Tickets Still Wildly Expensive
Knicks Season Tickets Will Increase 50 Percent Next Season
The Knicks have only been 6-4 since the megatrade that brought superstar Carmelo Anthony to NYC, but it seems that you can put a price on excitement, anticipation and expectations: Season tickets to Knicks games will increase nearly 50 percent next year.
God-Forsaken Knicks Cause Season Tickets Strife
Would you pay $60 or $100 for single game tickets to see the Knicks? Would you pay more than $84,000 for season tickets? No, nobody would do that in their right mind. But a Manhattan man claims that a Connecticut man agreed to buy his season tickets for just that amount, and now the man won't pay up.
David Cone Now Doing Mop Up Duty for Unsold Yankee Tix
The Yankees are so desperate to sell seats at their new stadium, they're having David Cone leave drunk dial-length messages for fans they hope to lure into buying high price tickets. Today's Post reports that the beloved Yankee pitcher is on phone duty trying to "persuade fans and corporations to spend $2,500 on luxury seats."
Mets Fan Sues Team Over Being Sent to the Nose Bleeds
A fan is suing the Mets because he did not get the premium seating he was hoping for on his season tickets for next year. Season ticket holder and celebrity lawyer Judd Burstein says that last year he had reserved "premium seats" at Citi Field similar to the ones he has now on field level along the first base line. But like they did to Fernando Tatis before him, the Mets told Burstein that they are going to need him in the outfield next year--sitting in the upper deck. He says that the team "banished him to the Siberia of the top of the left field bleachers [of Citi Field]." Even though Citi Field will have about 15,000 less seats than Shea, it actually has 7,000 more field level seats, meaning after reserving his seats, "(the Mets) took money and then allowed thousands of others to jump the line," as Burstein puts it. Burstein is suing for compensatory and punitive damages saying the Mets "picked the wrong person to cheat."

