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April 12, 2009
Spend $10,600 on the Yankees — or for College or a Car?
The New York Times
by Vincent Mallozzi
Recession? What recession?
With the celebrated arrival of Citi Field, I can barely afford to raise a family of Mets fans.
But for me and my three sons, things could be a lot worse.
After all, we could be Yankees fans.
Now let’s suppose the four of us wanted the best seats in the house across the street from the one that Ruth built. A single ticket for a premium Legends Suite seat, on the field level behind the dugouts and home plate, goes for $2,650. For me and the boys, that amounts to $10,600 to watch nine innings of Yankees baseball, or $1,177.77 per inning, if you’re keeping score at home. That princely sum is three times as much as Ruth earned — in his first full season with the Red Sox, $3,500 in 1915.
By contrast, the Mets’ top ticket is $695. Can anybody here afford this game?
“I think if anybody in any business had known where the economy was going to go, they would have done things differently,” Hal Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ general managing partner, told reporters before the team’s first exhibition game at the stadium. “There’s no doubt that small amounts of our tickets might be overpriced.”
Might be overpriced?
NoLandGrab: Don't look to the Barclays Center for bargains — "bunker" suites in Bruce Ratner's planned Nets arena are allegedly priced at $540,000, or a mere $13,170 per game.
Posted by eric at April 12, 2009 3:25 PM