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April 24, 2009
Touchy subject: Yanks kick MLS after ticket remark
AP via Yahoo! Sports
Mention those empty seats at Yankee Stadium at your own risk.
Don Garber did.
A day after the Major League Soccer commissioner raised the subject, New York Yankees president Randy Levine blasted back.
“Don Garber discussing Yankee attendance must be a joke,” Levine said Friday. “We draw more people in a year than his entire league does in a year. If he ever gets Major League Soccer into the same time zone as the Yankees, we might take him seriously.
“Hey Don, worry about Beckham, not the Yankees. Even he wants out of your league,” he said.
NoLandGrab: Hey Randy, how 'bout you worry about filling your absurdly priced empty seats — and fixing your flawed poor home-run-derby excuse for a $1.5-billion stadium?
“When I mentioned the New York Yankees yesterday, my comments were part of a larger assertion that all businesses—even the most successful sports entities—are experiencing some impact from the economic downturn,” Garber said through a league spokesman.
“The Yankees are one of the world’s strongest sports brands and the context of my comments about a few empty seats at Yankee Stadium was to illustrate the economic challenges we are all facing,” he said.
NLG: The obnoxious Levine is overreacting just a tad, no? Garber is dead-on in his estimation of the sports recession, and his comments are one more reminder of how foolish New York State officials' continuing support of an expensive new arena in Brooklyn really is.
Posted by eric at April 24, 2009 7:34 PM