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serves as a little tweak to the nations richest baseball franchise. “Were done
talking about seats,” Yankees president Randy Levine said Wednesday. “Were not
talking about seats.” But fans sure notice. “Its been pretty phenomenal,” said
Aaron Feldstein, a native Californian who lived in Brooklyn for a couple of
years and now resides in Baltimore. He was part of the far-from-sellout crowd at
the Yankees game Wednesday against the Oakland Athletics on a showery, cold
afternoon. The Legend Suite section was about 80 per cent empty, and the upper
decks—which have been mostly full—were a quarter empty. “I remember
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behind home plate theres 15 to 20,” said the 29-year-old Feldstein, who scored a
free ticket from a friend behind home plate—an area that costs $325 as part
of season tickets. Another snapshot of the problem: A count by The Associated
Press totalled 1,895 seats in the Legends Suite, of which 146 were in the front
row from dugout to dugout, costing $2,500 as season tickets and $2,625
individually. —On Tuesday night, only 64 of the 146 seats at the top price
level were occupied in the bottom of the second inning. The outermost Legends
Suite sections, which each contain 90 seats, were entirely empty until two fans
finally emerged to sit in them during the late innings. —On Wednesday, in the
third inning, just 37 of the highest-priced, front-row seats were occupied,
although it was impossible to know if some fans had taken shelter in stadium
restaurants. Yet another sign of how the best seats have been overpriced is
their resale level. Legends Suite seats in section 27B, row 2, down the
left-field line that originally sold for $500 were available for $225 early
Wednesday on the online ticket broker StubHub.com. Tickets in section 23, row 7,
behind the visitors dugout could be had for $263, down from their $850 original
price. “Yeah, we understand its not full. We actually understand why its not,”
left-fielder Johnny Damon said. “Its tough for, you know, business owners to
justify those seats. Its either have those seats or lay off people from work,
and I think that during this tough time, people are going to want to put it back
into their companies and put it back into people instead of spending that type
of money for seats.” A stadium built in boom times—with top-end seats that
give fans access to private clubs and an upscale duplex buffet from white-tuqued
chefs at carving stations—the Yankees front office doesnt seem to have
counted on the recession dampening enthusiasm for the storied franchise. The
team refuses to talk about the financial impact of the empty seats, but if every
spot in the Legends Suite were sold, the club would gross $1.63 million per
game, according to APs calculation. “I think if anybody in any business had
known where this economy was going to go, they would have done things
differently,” Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said before the
teams first workout at the ballpark on April 2. “Look, theres no doubt small
amounts of our tickets might be overpriced. You know, were continuing to look
into that. But the bottom line is, the vast majority of them, it seems like
theyre right on because weve sold 35,000 full season equivalents, and a lot of
the tickets have, you know, sold quite well.” MSNBC broadcaster Keith Olbermann,
who owns $850-a-game Legends Suite season tickets in the seventh row between the
dugouts, noted that the downturn has put the Yankees in a tricky position. “I
dont think this was foreseeable when they priced it. I dont think that it was
foreseeable when we bought it,” he said. “The question becomes what happens as
the economy rebounds. To what degree does the economy have to rebound before
that type of spending resumes?” And what do the Yankees do until then? Drop
prices now and anger fans who paid (very) top dollar? Or wait, endure the
ribbing, and wonder what the effect on the actual game is? All those empty
cushioned seats with teak armrests translate to less crowd noise, making Yankee
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