I will see the Yankees against a different MLB team at New Yankee Stadium a different month instead of April 2009.Originally Posted by GordonGecko
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I will see the Yankees against a different MLB team at New Yankee Stadium a different month instead of April 2009.
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I heard that the delay by the Yankees in processing assignments resulted from the number of field championship ticket licensees who were either slow or did not want to renew their licenses to pay $325+ per ticker per night.
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do you have a source?
It seems like it could be the truth.
Over $26,000 for Season tickets is extreme and plus the we are in a recession.
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It is extreme, but these are usually corporate. There's a law firm in my building with 4 seats in a box behind the Yankees dugout. Their cost for 2008 was $220 per ticket, or $71,280 for the whole account. $325 isn't THAT much higher for these guys. Just keep in mind, that firms like this pay junior lawyers a starting salary of 150k+ and charge out their services at $500+ per hour. All a firm has to do to afford these seats is lay off an associate for 6 months
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Besides the obvious anwer (one game) what is the difference between the Two Different 12 game weekday ticket plan and the 11 game weekday ticket plan. If the only difference is the obvious answer, then why offer the plan at all? Is there a price difference per game?
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The answer is simple, the Yankees set aside certain seats/sections for either full season, partial plan, or individual tickets. Season ticket seats are easy, the buyer takes all 81 games.
The partials are divided up in two ways as follows:
41/20/20 = 81
15/15/15/12/12/11 = 80
Normally they would sell all 81 for both types, but this a really special year. I wonder how they'll be handing out those extra home opener tickets from the partial plans. Are they going to let just anyone in the general public take a shot at getting the Stadium Opener tickets?
There is no price difference per game at Yankee Stadium. All tickets cost the same regardless of game, the only difference is if you bought them as part of a full season, partial plan, individual advanced, or individual day of game
Last edited by GordonGecko; 10-21-2008 at 08:46 AM.
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Thanks for the info. A friend of mine said the Yanks in 2008 had $5 tickets for the 11 game plane???? Could that be possible. I would have scooped that up in a heartbeat.
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They did have $5 tickets for many weekday games. A lot of these games just happened to be part of other plans but they were full price when you bought them at the beginning of the season. The Yankees did sell surprise packages during the season that included $5 games, those sold out very fast. I was able to get a bunch of extra Red Sox tickets in one of those plans, was a great deal
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I would love to have a Sunday plan at $75-70. I keep waiting to see if and when they go on sale. Gordon you're up on this , could you keep us informed?
Thanks
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I'll pass along whatever into I get. Right now partial plan assignments for existing subscribers are due in early January, and full season assignments are due within 2-4 weeks. I've been surprised that there's not that much interest on Baseball-fever about 2009 Yankees tickets. No one ever comes to this thread compared to the Citi Field ticket thread where there's already thousands of posts. FYI, the best thread on the web for Yankees relocation info is here:
http://forums.nyyfans.com/showthread.php?t=108493
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Gordon, the yanks have been upfront with the prices and ticket plans while the mets are very hush hush on partial plans
The face value of tickets is the only thing the yanks have not mention
Gordon, i remember a ticket last year in MVP tier Reserve $29 while the STH price is $25.
I expect the same in NYS but those field level seats that cost $325 behind home plate for STH.
My guess it would cost $400 for a individual game.
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Gordon
I think you are the "go to guy" for YS info ! This is slightly off topic (what a surprise), and someone else asked this on another thread but received no reply, so here goes:
I am lucky enough to be taking a YS tour on 10/31. Do you know if they are letting video camers in....the terrorist security thing can't be the reason because the place is going to be taken down anyway? Think I will be able to sneak some dirt out of there without jail time?
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Not only is it possible, but it's true! In 2008, Fuji Film sponsored eleven dates, all midweek night games, where all Tier Box, Tier Reserved, Tier Reserved MVP and Bleacher seats were $5 apiece subject to availability. In December '07 the Yankees offered packs of all 11 games, and I was fortunate to get a pair in Tier Box 669 (the very last section out in the right field porch).
Included among the dates were April 2 (the third scheduled home game of the year, which due to the Opening Day rainout became the second home game), and September 18 (the 4th-to-last game ever played).
I'm hoping a similar plan will be offered for 2009, but I'm not holding my breath... but then again, I didn't think they'd be offering $5 seats for the final season, so who knows.
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Ahh... yeah that's what mandrake's friend must have been talking about. That wasn't one of the official lettered partial plans, but it was a package offered in the off-season. Totally forgot about that, I seriously doubt that the Yankees will be able to offer this again for 2009, demand is going to be through the roof for Grandstand tickets.
Mandrake, I'm pretty sure you can bring in video cameras on the tour, but someone else should confirm that. As for dirt, I think you'll have no problem scooping some up, everyone does it. If you bring in a bucket on the other hand you may have some problems.... And don't even think about bringing in a screwdriver or hammer
Put it in the books
Maybe you can bring in a video camera, but you can't use it... according to the Stadium Tours page on the Yankees' very own website...
No video recording is permitted in Yankee Stadium. Still photography is permitted, although not in the Yankees Clubhouse.I wonder if the prohibition for photos in the clubhouse is still in effect, since the Yankees aren't going to be using it anymore. (I'm going on the tour 10/30, so I've got a vested interest in this information as well.)
Not even the liquid kind?
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Didn't know that video recording was banned on non-game days. But from what I hear the tours that they're still giving no longer include the clubhouse
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I wonder if the prohibition for photos in the clubhouse is still in effect, since the Yankees aren't going to be using it anymore. (I'm going on the tour 10/30, so I've got a vested interest in this information as well.)
I went on a tour of the stadium on 10/13 and you cannot use a video camera. They are not letting you take pictures inside the Yankee clubhouse. There's really not much in the clubhouse to see. Most players have had their belongings shipped or stored somewhere else. The only thing I could see was Mariano's locker filled with fan mail, a collection of hand and body lotions, and some scented candles or aromatherapy stuff.
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I don't have camera. But I have camera and I will carry my camera with to take pictures on the outside of New Yankee Stadium.
Put it in the books
How do you both don't have a camera and also have a camera?
If you had a Sketchbook you could make a Sketch of the outside of New Yankee Stadium by using a Pen or Pencil.
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Hey, there is a reason I do not gamble. I would have bet my house that the Yankees did not sell an eleven game package for $55. They must have offered it for all of ten minutes before it sold out. That had to be the best bargain ever; I don't care what day of the week, who they were playing, where the seats were. Five bucks is five bucks. Bleachers were usually $12, right? What was the top of tier, $20? Five bucks for the last season and one of the games was late September? You could have sold that one game and paid for all eleven.Ahh... yeah that's what mandrake's friend must have been talking about. That wasn't one of the official lettered partial plans, but it was a package offered in the off-season. Totally forgot about that, I seriously doubt that the Yankees will be able to offer this again for 2009, demand is going to be through the roof for Grandstand tickets.
Mandrake, I'm pretty sure you can bring in video cameras on the tour, but someone else should confirm that. As for dirt, I think you'll have no problem scooping some up, everyone does it. If you bring in a bucket on the other hand you may have some problems.... And don't even think about bringing in a screwdriver or hammer
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Well keep in mind, the market for Yankees tickets in 2008 was a rollercoaster ride. At the beginning of the season it was like business as usual, most games were not sold out and people dumped their upper deck tickets just like at Shea. I had three games that I had to eat and a couple others I could only get 40 cents on the dollar for. You couldn't give away Tier seats. It's only in July that the "OMG this is the last year!" bandwagon kicked in and those same seats I couldn't unload at any price were going for double the price.
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I just called up the Yankees was told that they are not sending out the invoices for another month and that there will be enough time. In other words, you will not have to decide whether to accept the seats "the next day."
Put it in the books
For the historical record, two of the games included in the plan were during the final week of games... 9/15 and 9/18, both against the White Sox. (The game prior to 9/15 was 7/29.)
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I think we need to lay down an ultimatum on the Mods:
Either Ban Manhattan or give back our Non Baseball Stadium threads back. If you fail to comply with at least one of the choices, we all will commit mass suicide. It's gone that far. And no, we will not accept Jimz as an alternative. Either give us our threads or get rid of this guy.
Enough is enough already. How long do we let this guy troll our boards? He gives no true contribution and all of his points are either irrelevant or completely illiterate. Look, anyone can be Manhattan, try it for yourself!
I have dog but I don't have dog so I do plan going to New Yankee Stadium in other month besdies April 2009 during next summer without dog.
Who honestly believes that this guy is even for real?
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Seriously, listen: I feel your pain, but come on -- he/she's not THAT bad. I mean, I always figured Manhattan is a well intentioned person -- as excited about the Yankees and the stadium as the next poster on the Yankee threads (now at 26,459 and counting!). He/she just puts it in a different way as you or I. And you don't know anything about who this person is, so you don't really know for sure the nature of his/her posts. Why don't you just PM the guy and ask what his/her deal is? Then report back to us cuz I and I am sure a lot of us want to know too.
And besides, the guy brings levity to the board with his posts; you can't deny that. In a world where it sometimes takes upwards of 45-50 minutes for me to go a measly 25 miles to work, where my team, I fear, is slowly sinking back into the malaise that was the 1980s, where my guy and girl are quite possibly going to lose the top job to some inexperienced nutjob and his bumbling sidekick, I don't mind seeing the occasional oblivious Manhattan post (and especially the comments that are made in reply). They always bring a smile to my face.
And in the end, Manhattan isn't insulting anyone, isn't picking fights, and simply isn't doing anything that makes a ban necessary.
So just zip right through them if they bother you so much. In the very least, they are just taking up space on the internet; and I think the internet has a bit of space to spare.
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