{"id":4489,"date":"2009-02-21T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2009-02-21T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T14:22:29","slug":"yanks_the_shaft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/yanks_the_shaft.html","title":{"rendered":"Yanks The Shaft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/yankees\/2009\/02\/20\/2009-02-20_were_getting_yanked_over_tickets_at_new_-3.html\">Nice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Yankees are getting a new stadium, but some of their most loyal fans are getting the shaft.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of full- and partial-season ticket holders got word Friday they aren&#8217;t getting the seats &#8212; or packages &#8212; they requested in the Bombers&#8217; new digs.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to have seats comparable to what I had before, near the first base line. They told me I was high on the list. Then they put me in these horrible seats by the foul pole line and told me I should be grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Brooklyn fan, who asked to remain anonymous because he&#8217;s still trying to snag season tickets, said he, too, didn&#8217;t get the seats he asked for.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the real Yankee fans,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;ll bend over backward for the big corporations, but not for regular guys like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another disappointed fan &#8212; a partial-season ticket holder &#8212; said he was prepared to shell out more dough for worse seats because he loves the Yankees and he knows a new stadium means higher prices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I specifically requested a weekend package because that&#8217;s what I had before and that&#8217;s when I can see the games,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They offered me a weekday package and basically said take it or leave it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice: The Yankees are getting a new stadium, but some of their most loyal fans are getting the shaft. Hundreds of full- and partial-season ticket holders got word Friday they aren&#8217;t getting the seats &#8212; or packages &#8212; they requested in the Bombers&#8217; new digs. . . . &#8220;I wanted to have seats comparable to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}