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Nothing groundbreaking, and Mets Police readers know that Mets tickets can also be had on the cheap…but the Daily News reports about how far the market has crashed on Yankees tickets.

Tickets for next Tuesday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles were listed for as little as $7 on fansnap.com, compared to $14 for the cheapest seats sold by the team directly.


Thirty-dollar grandstand seats are available for $11, and $50 seats in the outfield terrace section start at $17.

It’s not too late to move back home Yankees.

Read the full thing here.

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My kind of article, from the Times.

..the new Yankee Stadium lacks any semblance of the atmosphere that made the original so special. When you saw a game at the old place, you felt like part of a community of fans. The prices were high, and it wasn’t the kind of place the average working man could take his family often. But if you got in, everyone was part of the event, no matter where you sat. There was buzz.

The new park does not have it and is not set up for it. Everywhere else the Yankees play, fans congregate behind the dugouts for autographs, straining to get a little bit closer to the players. Not here. Not in a ballpark with a concrete moat encircling the first nine rows or so, almost from foul pole to foul pole, patrolled by a fleet of security guards.

That’s the part that is so perplexing. The Yankees had a chance to look at every other park that came before theirs — Seattle, Anaheim, Colorado, Pittsburgh, so many fabulous examples — and this is what they chose.

The rest is here.

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With fans still upset about Monday night…why not just offer rainchecks?  It’s not like every seat is filled (6,000 unsold last night for BOSTON).  Let’s travel back to not so long ago via the NY Times. 

At Yankee Stadium, a Long Day’s Journey Into Night

By MURRAY CHASS

Published: September 7, 2004

But with the Devils Rays in the house, a long day’s journey was finally progressing toward a baseball game. It was a day that really began in the Bronx at 11 a.m., when the gates opened and several hundred people took their seats, not knowing what lay ahead. Shortly after 3 p.m., the Yankees announced that free hot dogs and drinks were available. And the Yankees decided that fans could get a rain check, whether or not they used yesterday’s tickets.

Compliments came the Yankees’ way. “They have been extraordinarily cooperative under extremely difficult circumstances,

read the full story here.

I recall the George Steinbrenner Yankees doing rainchecks for games played quite frequently.  One Old Timers day (2006??) there was a delay and when the game was not played they not only gave the necessary raincheck but an additional ticket to a future game for the remainder of the season, or the next season.

Yankee bloggers, I encourage you to unite and shame the Yankees into rainchecks….and newspaper reporters, we could use your help on this one.  It’s a good story, and you guys should be able to easily pull up examples.

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Well it’s game time and once again I wasted a day in front of the computer…here’s a list of the complete links related to YankeeGateGate

Paul O’Neill chased by security!

New Stadium Insider’s Tip on How To Re-enter Yankee Stadium Legally

Yankees Threaten To Take A Reporter’s Credentials Away For Taking Pictures Of GateGate!

My editorial that the media always decides the fans are wrong

and what started it all – Fans were told there would not be a game on Monday night, then not allowed to reenter the stadium.

Lost in all this – why did they start a game at 9:20, and when will they be issuing rainchecks?

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Man, I am loving Pile On The Yankees Day.   Get a load of this!

Over the weekend, former outfielder Paul O’Neill, a current analyst for YES, was asked by security to leave the indoor batting cages, where he was watching Yankees hit, prior a game.

A guard told O’Neill that he couldn’t loiter in the area. To make matters worse, O’Neill was upset that his wife wasn’t allowed into the Stadium’s “wifes room.” 

More here.

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