The “mainstream media” is on empty seats and home runs at New Yankee today. Cool by me!
From the Times…
Another first impression of the new Yankee Stadium is that it has plenty in common with Arthur Ashe Stadium at the United States Open tennis tournament in Queens, where two tiers of luxury boxes constitute a no-person’s land of empty seats and yawning silence, except when Agassi plays Sampras, which isn’t likely to happen again.
Yankees management claimed an attendance of 43,068 on Sunday, but you could not prove that by the gaping sections of expensive seats from dugout to dugout. Either the Yankees have not actually sold those seats, or the bankers and brokers with the corporate seats are taking weekend jobs to make ends meet in this rotten economy they helped create. Either way, it is quiet at the new Stadium.
“You guys call yourselves Yankee fans? Make some noise!†one loud bloke was shouting in the stands just before Posada elevated his home run.
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Mets fans have to decide how they feel about the wretched sightlines thousands of them have purchased. Yankees fans seem to be opting for the $5 seats alongside the restaurant, named for a gambling den, that juts out in the middle of the center-field bleachers, killing the peripheral vision for hundreds of fans
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wow. I compared Citi Field to Arthur Ashe Stadium in my blog.