{"id":4850,"date":"2009-05-11T08:28:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2009-05-11T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T13:28:25","slug":"oh_no-no_you_didnt_just_cold_call_me_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/oh_no-no_you_didnt_just_cold_call_me_now.html","title":{"rendered":"Oh, No-No, You Didn&#8217;t Just Cold Call Me Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05112009\/news\/regionalnews\/here_comes_the_pitch_168621.htm\">David Cone is after me about my car warranty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>With the team&#8217;s sales department lacking a closer crafty enough to persuade fans and corporations to spend $2,500 on luxury seats in the middle of a recession, the Yankees started handing the ball to the former ace. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;David Cone left a four-minute voicemail on my machine about the seats,&#8221; said a season-ticket holder on the fence about the new prices.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The biggest challenge in making the calls has been getting customers to take him serious. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes I get a secretary, and she doesn&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They think it&#8217;s a practical joke. Usually, once they get on the phone, they recognize my voice from television and realize the call is for real.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/newyankeestadium\/index.htm\">New Yankee Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now David Cone is after me about my car warranty: With the team&#8217;s sales department lacking a closer crafty enough to persuade fans and corporations to spend $2,500 on luxury seats in the middle of a recession, the Yankees started handing the ball to the former ace. &#8220;David Cone left a four-minute voicemail on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","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=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4851,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}