{"id":5471,"date":"2009-10-08T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T13:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2009-10-08T08:25:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T13:25:38","slug":"no_complaining_kate_hudson_can_afford_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/no_complaining_kate_hudson_can_afford_it.html","title":{"rendered":"No Complaining; Kate Hudson Can Afford It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/local\/yankees.yankee.stadium.2.1233327.html\">Die-hard Yankees fans turn down opportunity to purchase $380 ALDS tickets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Some diehard Yankee fans were on line for 14 hours early Wednesday, waiting and hoping there&#8217;d be tickets available for game one of the playoffs when the doors opened.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Paul was on the line since 7 p.m. Wednesday night to be there for his beloved team, and he&#8217;s on a budget.<\/p>\n<p>But when the doors finally opened, there was disappointment bordering on outrage when dozens of fans found out the cheapest tickets sold cost $380.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I live right here in the neighborhood. I attended 34 games in the stadium this season, and I am not exactly rich,&#8221; said Paul. &#8220;I can&#8217;t go on line and pay an extra $25 surcharge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely, something should be done for people in the neighborhood who were giving whole new life to the Yankees, but this is capitalism,&#8221; said Sam Soghar.<\/p>\n<p>Fred Negron was the only one of the group who chose to buy the $380 ticket, but that&#8217;s because he just sold his house and had the cash.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For comparison&#8217;s sake, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/articles\/2009\/10\/07\/news\/doc4acbfb5976fa8693530500.txt\">Phillies NLDS tickets are between $35 and $75<\/a>.<\/p>\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>Die-hard Yankees fans turn down opportunity to purchase $380 ALDS tickets: Some diehard Yankee fans were on line for 14 hours early Wednesday, waiting and hoping there&#8217;d be tickets available for game one of the playoffs when the doors opened. . . . Paul was on the line since 7 p.m. Wednesday night to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,68,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war","category-follow_the_money","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","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=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5472,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}