Baseball Backlash

If any of you Yankees fans out there have seen one of their home games on tv I bet you've noticed a bunch of premium seats behind the dugouts and home plate sitting empty. I cackle to the hubris of the Yankees organization in thinking that building a huge new stadium and charging around $500 for one of those cushy seats was a good idea.

Hal Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ general managing partner, said recently that “small amounts of our tickets might be overpriced.” -- from The New York Times

A small amount of seats are overpriced? Take another look Steinbrenner at the amount of empty seats you've got there!

This just tickles my fancy to no end. The amount of money these sports organizations expect people to pay to see a game is ridiculous. Perhaps if professional athletes didn't command such large sums of money to play a game they love, regular people like me could afford to go to a game more than once every five years. Regular American people -- and even corporations these days -- are not going to shell out that kind of cash for a baseball game. Not in this economy. Now the Yankees are scrambling to find a way to cover the costs that are being lost each game.

Read the article here.