{"id":6577,"date":"2011-07-12T08:45:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2011-07-12T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:51:15","slug":"when_3000_equals_1099","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/07\/when_3000_equals_1099.html","title":{"rendered":"When 3,000 Equals 1099"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add this to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2011\/07\/12\/2011-07-12_christian_lopez_fan_who_handed_over_derek_jeters_historic_3000thhit_ball_will_ow.html\">the inflated cost of nearly everything related to the Yankees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[The fan who caught the home run ball that was Derek Jeter&#8217;s 3,000th hit and did the decent thing by promptly returning it] will probably be on the hook for $5,000 to $13,000 because of the luxury seats the grateful Yankees gave him, the accountants said.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>[The fan], a Verizon customer sales rep, caught the home run ball on Saturday and gifted it, no strings attached, to Jeter.<\/p>\n<p>In return, the Yankees gave him luxury suite tix for every remaining home game as well as any postseason games the Yankees may play in &#8212; a gift valued in the neighborhood of $32,000.<\/p>\n<p>He also received some autographed bats, balls and jerseys.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS declined to comment, but accountants say the agency will view Lopez&#8217;s reward from the team as income.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then Jeter bags out on the All-Star game . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add this to the inflated cost of nearly everything related to the Yankees: [The fan who caught the home run ball that was Derek Jeter&#8217;s 3,000th hit and did the decent thing by promptly returning it] will probably be on the hook for $5,000 to $13,000 because of the luxury seats the grateful Yankees gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","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=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6579,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/6579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}