{"id":1840,"date":"2006-12-04T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/imagine_paying_400_to_watch_a_meaningless_september_game_against_the_devil_rays_40-man_roster.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:27:39","slug":"imagine_paying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/imagine_paying.html","title":{"rendered":"Imagine Paying $400 To Watch A Meaningless September Game Against The Devil Rays&#8217; 40-Man Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently not even the huge, gigantic television market can mitigate costs associated with the huge, gigantic payroll and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/12022006\/news\/regionalnews\/yanks__pay_ball__regionalnews_clemente_lisi.htm\">the Yankees will raise ticket prices again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Starting next year, ticket prices will soar as much as $40 for plum seats and $14 to sit in the nosebleeds, team officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Reserved seats at Yankee Stadium will run from $17 to $56 for full season-ticket plans, $18 to $61 for partial season-tickets, $19 to $66 for advance purchase for individual games and $20 to $71 on days of games.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, those same seats sold last season for $17 to $50 for full season-tickets, $18 to $52 for partial season-tickets, $19 to $55 for advance purchase for individual games and $20 to $57 on game days.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>For Yankees fans with more cash to burn, the price of box seats closest to the field will jump $40 to $150. Those seats &#8212; which are going up 36 percent in price &#8212; are for the first four rows in the sections nearest to home plate and are sold as part of season-ticket plans.<\/p>\n<p>In the unlikely event any of those ducats are available for sale for individual games, they would be priced at $300 in advance and $400 on days of games.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No word on whether beer prices will go up again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/price_of_beer_i.html\">like last season<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently not even the huge, gigantic television market can mitigate costs associated with the huge, gigantic payroll and the Yankees will raise ticket prices again: Starting next year, ticket prices will soar as much as $40 for plum seats and $14 to sit in the nosebleeds, team officials said yesterday. Reserved seats at Yankee Stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}