And here's a look at the tickets themselves which are gold embossed:
The person also tells me that the price tag on the tickets says $350, but thanks to a $425 license fee, and $100 for food & beverages, the total cost ends up being $850.UPDATE 8:48 p.m.: Here's what the Jim Beam Suite tickets look like:
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Lucky bastard. Identify yourself.
What recession? haha
Nothing wrong with someone enjoying the fruits of their labor.
holy crap thats amazing... you know if bleacher tickets come tht way?
jk lol
Congrats to that person those are great seats. I am thinking of buying 2 individual game tickets in the legend suite for 900 a ticket. My thinking is I will only go one time this year and might as well get a high quality seat instead of going multiply times this year and getting cheaper seats.
can i have a ticket?
Hola amigos.
Man those are some great tix.
I am astounded at these comments. I share season tickets ($75 this season, up from $65 last year, and under $20 in the early '90s) and no wonder the Yankees feel they could charge whatever they want with alarming impugnity. We all, to some degree, are suckers.
But there is no way anyone paying $850 a seat should be applauded. Not when the Stadium is in NYC's poorest neighborhood (avg. FAMILY income $21K), when food pantry shelves are half-empty with lines out the door, and when our entire region is in its worst economic shape in any of our lifetimes.
Yes, enjoy Yankee baseball. Enjoy going to the game. But it is embarassing to applaud this sort of excess in any form or fashion.
Anon,
If the person or persons can afford that kind of money on a ticket there is absolutely nothing wrong with them spending it. People work hard for their money, and therefore have earned the right to spend it on whatever they want.
Is it a shame that there are so many people living in poverty near the stadium? Absolutely. But there are poor people everywhere, and just because poor people live close to the stadium doesn't mean people should stop spending money on good seats.
I respectfully disagree:
It doesn't make you sick to think the average family living yards from the Stadium subsists on 1/3 of what this "deserving" person paid for one season ticket?
And, in general, those in manual labor work as hard for their money as those of us fortunate enough to be managing credit default swaps or off-loading bad mortgages.
why would that make u stop buying tickets tho?.. yeah, it sucks for them to be poor but if someone has the money to buy $800+ than good for them.. thats life. the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. its terrible, but it always happened it will continue to happen
can i at least have the box?
Anon,
Of course it bothers me that there are poor people, but that doesn't mean rich people shouldn't spend the money they make if they choose to.
If people stole from those poor people to afford these seats then I'd see how the two were related, but there are poor people everywhere.
Should people stop going to Knicks games because there are some poor people living in the neighborhoods around Madison Square Garden. What about poor people who live in Queens, does that mean that people who spend money on good seats at Citi Field are wrong for doing so?
Or...You might say that the person who bought these Legends seats are helping finance the re-birth of the Bronx in and around the stadium with new parks, a new train station, new sidewalks, new trees, new restaurants, etc., while enabling the tickets in the rest of the stadium to stay somewhat affordable considering that $1.6 billion was spent on building it and the Yankees spent $400+ million in contracts this off-season!!! If it wasn't for people spending $850 per ticket, then your $65 seat wouldnt be $75 this year, it would be $125+!! You should thank the people willing to subsidize the 40,000 other seats in the new stadium!! Thank god for the companies spending the big $$$ for Legends seats and luxury boxes.
Nice more boxes.
Good point Peter.
Also, for those interested in what the Jim Beam Suite tickets look like, I just added those pics to the post.
Wow. This sort of naïveté is staggering.
Let's all just enjoy the season.
What are you talking about, Anon?
How is anyone being naive?
a box? a ticket? can i get anything here? lol
hahahahah
We ticket-buyers are not helping finance the rebirth of the Bronx any more than we have the past 30 years ... and we all see where that's gotten the Bronx.
Now the Yanks have taken away the largest and most utilized public space in the region and have stalled putting in place plans to replace the parkland.
Finally, the Yanks held up the city for more dough. Somehow, the Yanks get their money while needed public services -- e.g. MTA and DOE -- are cut.
I repeat: It's naive to think this new ballpark is here for any reason other than to make the Yankees richer.
And, yes, that is their right. Just as it's any other company's right to make money. Like Exxon, Wal-Mart, Verizon or anyone else.
Did you all cheer when Exxon raised gas prices?
Let's get back to baseball.
OK Anon I won't disagree with you on several things: I repeat:
"It's naive to think this new ballpark is here for any reason other than to make the Yankees richer."
Fair enough. Although it is the fans who spend the big bucks on luxury boxes and high priced tickets that are helping fund the stadium.
Also, when new stadiums are built, generally the area around the stadium thrives. Will that happen in the Bronx? I don't know.
"Did you all cheer when Exxon raised gas prices?"
Nobody is cheering the Yankees for charging these insane prices. But I'm happy for those Yankees fans that can afford to pay. Good for them.
Greg, things are getting way out of hand on the Pettitte post. Anon somehow was able to take Liam's account name so Liam is listed as CC and Anon is pretending to be Liam.
What a train wreck. I have no idea what was going on in that post.
Anonymous wrote: "But there is no way anyone paying $850 a seat should be applauded. Not when the Stadium is in NYC's poorest neighborhood (avg. FAMILY income $21K) . . . . . "
It's not the fans' fault that Yankee Stadium is located where it is.
(This comment is not intended to invalidate the legitimate points the anonymous poster made about the neighborhood.)
sounds like we have a COMMIE!!
haha
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