{"id":3378,"date":"2008-04-27T08:48:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2008-04-27T08:48:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T13:48:33","slug":"you_get_what_you_pay_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/you_get_what_you_pay_for.html","title":{"rendered":"You Get What You Pay For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04272008\/news\/regionalnews\/local_fans_in_a_funk_108301.htm\">you know what they say about guys who drive Lamborghinis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New York sports teams scored miserably with their fans when it came to performance and likability, with the awful Knicks dead last in a nationwide fan-satisfaction poll, according to ESPN The Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Big Apple&#8217;s pride and joy &#8212; the Super Bowl-champion Giants &#8212; placed 48th out of the 122 pro teams that comprised the Web-site survey of NBA, NFL and NHL and MLB rooters.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The survey graded fan satisfaction based on the affordability of tickets and the stadium experience, their team&#8217;s win-loss performance, and the accessibility of players.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, you have to go all the way to No. 40 to find the first of our nine local teams &#8212; the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees bombed out in 65th place, well below last year&#8217;s 48th.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason is that new manager Joe Girardi &#8220;is no Joe Torre,&#8221; according to fellow analyst Eddie Matz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throw in price hikes for beer [up a dollar to $7], soda [up $1.50 to $5] and parking [up $2 to $14], and the imminent destruction of Yankee Stadium . . . and the Yanks drop by 17 spots overall, giving them their lowest ranking in [ESPN] standings history,&#8221; he blogged.<\/p>\n<p>But the Yanks did beat the Mets, who scraped the bottom at No. 93, behind even the hated Boston Red Sox, which claimed 89th place.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But you know what they say about guys who drive Lamborghinis: New York sports teams scored miserably with their fans when it came to performance and likability, with the awful Knicks dead last in a nationwide fan-satisfaction poll, according to ESPN The Magazine. Even the Big Apple&#8217;s pride and joy &#8212; the Super Bowl-champion Giants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simply_the_best_better_than_all_the_rest","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","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=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}