{"id":2561,"date":"2007-07-30T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/the_yankees_are_killing_our_children.html"},"modified":"2007-07-30T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:54:01","slug":"the_yankees_are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/the_yankees_are.html","title":{"rendered":"The Yankees Are Killing Our Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees have always been of the “supersize me” ilk<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Since the New York Yankees, the Baby Bombers’ parent, took full control of the minor league club last year and handed over the team’s day-to-day operation to Mandalay Baseball Properties, the turnstiles have turned at an impressive clip.<\/p>\n

Attendance at the halfway mark of the season, a mundane 3,393 per game last year, has spiked 40 percent to an average of 4,763 per contest as of Tuesday, thanks to a stepped-up sales program, a fan-friendly approach and an innovative all-you-can eat ticket package that has customers salivating.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

At each stop, they emphasized wholesome family fun and entertainment at a reasonable price. Tickets range from $5 (reserved grandstand) to $13 (reserved box), and stadium amenities include a picnic area in right field, and a Kid Zone in the left-field stands that features children’s activities. After each game, youngsters get to run the bases.<\/p>\n

Yet for all those attractions, nothing, perhaps, has filled the seats more than the alliterative — and wildly successful — Pinstripe Plan.<\/p>\n

For $75 — or $15 a seat — fans see five games and get all the hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, soda and water they can scarf down. They also received free admission to a special Yankees Old-Timers game at the Richmond County Bank Ballpark on July 8, plus free tickets to a New York Yankees game in the Bronx later this season that includes a meeting with the big club’s general manager, Brian Cashman.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Location Scout: Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yankees have always been of the “supersize me” ilk: Since the New York Yankees, the Baby Bombers’ parent, took full control of the minor league club last year and handed over the team’s day-to-day operation to Mandalay Baseball Properties, the turnstiles have turned at an impressive clip. Attendance at the halfway mark of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","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=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}