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It’s getting ridiculous, they just don’t show up half the time.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:57 amYes, but they “mini-swept” the Yankees, so where does that leave them?
Which is probably the reason you posted this in the first place, Red Sock fucker.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 amYou know the Yankees suck for raising $250 seats to $800, taking tax breaks, and not paying any rent to the city.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 amNo, the Yankees suck because they are in last place, hippy. Why should they not charge whatever the market can bear for their seats? When will you shear yourself of this socialist mindset?
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 amGW, Jake is just longing for the days when the Yanks would buy themselves a championship with all their media driven revenue …. only thing left after advertising and TV rev is seating rev (since they blew the media wad)not unlike the Red Sox who seem to raise seating prices every year … although it’s much easier if you have won a division title or world series, remember when Jake?
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:35 am#8 — Um yeah, I remember 26 of them. It gets boring after a while. I know it’s kind of a “fresh” and “new” thing for the hapless eternal loser Red Sox fans, but you know, it’s old hat for us Bomber lovers. Wake me up for the playoffs.
BTW — when you win 26 World Series in less than a century, you pack your house. So you have to be an idiot if you don’t charge what the market can bear.
Look at the Knicks — they suck donkey dick, and their prices are astronomical. If the seats are empty, then prices will come down. That’s a free market.
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 pmIt is not socialist mindset that makes me say that.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:37 pmfirst off the average joe and his kids will have to stay at home…not what the game is about!
Secondly, if i was the mayor I would have floated a bond and bought the stadium to increase revs for the city.
A ball club already making a few hundred mil should pay rent of $14 mil. there is no excuse.
I mean they got NYC to foot the bill for the parking lot. Why should taxpayers pay for any of this?
I mean the Yanks would probably not go anywhere and if pressured would have given revs to the city through rent and such.
Bullshit with that “average Joe” nonsense. I sat in the bleachers and had a great time when I was going to Yankee Stadium in my early, right out of college days. The seats you mention have ALWAYS been expensive.
As for the negotiations with the City, obviously they were entered into on a mutually beneficial basis, so what’s your beef?
I guess the Mayor thought more of keeping the Yankees where they were than you do. When you leave your tree house, move to New York and run for Mayor, perhaps you can make pissing off the Yankees a “key plank” in your campaign platform.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:03 pmOh Yeah…..well Fuck the Yanks and Sox along with their seats and parking lots.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pmAre you Seevah the Destroyer, or Seevah the Pitcher?
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 pmJake,
Your a very mad person. So much pent up anger.
Granted the seats were always above the average joes price range, but once in a while it is nice for a dad to see his sons eyes light up with excitement. This rules the possibility out.
I don’t think you would piss off the team…if I or the mayor did then fuck them since there will be someone else to take their place.
This is nothing more than corporate welfare.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:17 pmAs we have seen corporate welfare has fucked over America.
Not only did corporate America get there chance here they got incentives to stay and have consequently fucked the country over by shipping jobs over seas, underfunding pensions, and patented themselves into running our government and our lives.
Do not get me wrong I will state again I am for capitalism, but not to the point where it detroys peoples lives.
You need to wake up and face the fact that you support the wrong ideas…you are brained washed through religion and politics my friend.
If your so smart why have you not disproved the my statements of Friedman economics creating havoc around the world.
Read Naomi Kleins book The Shock Doctrine,
Learn about how this country and some of it wealthiest corporations supported the Nazi Party. Learn about how our involvement in every war is all based on contrived bullshit so that a small few can profit…
If you can tell me that this country is what our fore fathers fought for then I’m sorry. You either don not want to admit your wrong or your are an eloquent idiot!
Willie does not make it to the all-star game.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pmThe Padres, wow, now they fucking suck. Fire the padres too.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 pmKake, I’ll bet you’re one of Kudlow’s boy’s ….. ” I believe in the free market system ….. blah, blah, blah ”
And if that is the case then why don’t sports teams let the free market place establish the fair market value of the seat or fall back on Econ 101 and let supply & demand set the market?
In the instance of the Knicks as with the Celtics after the Big 3 era, they could easily lower seating prices across the board to at least play to a full house and provide affordable entertainment to those generally locked out during good times but they don’t and won’t …. whether by NBA demand or for fear of setting a precedence they won’t lower prices other than some discounted tix to large groups, hospital staffs or lumping some bad games together as a discounted package. Seems like bad economics to me …. supply & demand should rule and cheaper seats would increase revenue from parking, food & bev sales as well as souvenirs thus improving the team’s bottom line while fans support a bad team through the rough years.
Explain that to me …. if you say the market place needs time to adjust the pricing I say that I saw the Celtics wallow in the mire for twenty years and the free market place didn’t work for the consumers or for that matter the stubborn owners.
Re the Yanks …. once again, classic elitism! Those that have get and them that dont, don’t! Baseball has been a case of the wealthy getting the best players and winning the most. Other than NY, Chicago (excluding the Cubs), LA and second/third tier cities like Boston, Frisco, Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta & St Louis most other franchises can’t even afford to sign top draft choices due to hugh signing bonuses esp amongst pitchers let alone big time free agents. The reason football is so successful is because of parity due to their draft and payroll limitations. The Yankees and even the Knicks have been able to spend egregiously over their respective caps cause the have the revenues (mostly media driven) to pay the penalties associated with doing just that.
Those 26 titles are most assuredly due to the financial wherewithal of the Yankees (as well as staying focused on baseball) as opposed to other franchises lacking the long term commitment such as the Frazee Red Sox who sold his best players to the Yankees (contributing to a long string of crowns) for cash to fund Broadway musicals and the Finley Oakland A’s who decided to auction his best players off E-Bay style until MLB decided the Red Sox were not deserving of Rollie Fingers and Joe Rudi nor the Yankees of Vida Blue cause as Kuhn said, it was “not in the best interest of baseball.” Odd, no?
Oh, and BTW …. WAKE UP the playoffs ARE on …. the NBA playoffs and the Celtics are contenders for their 17th championship …. Explain that cause media revenue hasn’t been a part of their equation as it has for the Yankees.
From the current City of Champions, Boston MA!!!
Enjoy the slump …. your new owner, new manager, aging ball club and failing farm system from too many trades for other teams stars has finally caught up to you …. but thats free trade in America and baseball …. you get what ya pay for (or do ya?)!
May 25th, 2008 at 2:37 amSorry about calling you Kake, Jake …. just a spelling error that I missed and was unable to correct as the “free market place” had a time constraint and I got locked out like some Yankee fan with a thin wallet.
May 25th, 2008 at 3:09 amGreen Writer — Noami Klein is one of the dumber commies publishable out there, and I say that will all due respect. Literally, she’s dumber than a wooden post.
Also What in the fuck are you talking about “a Dad seeing his son’s eyes light up” being foregone, just because the expensive seats in Yankee Stadium (which were ALWAYS expensive, even in the days of Ruth & Gehrig) got a little more expensive?
There are still plenty of affordable seats. Bleachers are still very cheap. As I mentioned, that’s where I spent much of my youth wathcing the Junks, when I couldn’t get my uncle’s box tix. I had a much better time in the bleachers, too — they’ve a Puerto Rican band that plays there that would knock your socks off.
You really have to put a lid on the easy populism too. There are no easy answers. If you want to put a stop to what you consider to be “corporate welfare” then you have to limit the power of Congress to give “special breaks” to their friends. That power largely lays in the ability to tax at whim. If you take away those special interest abilities, then you would have a fairer playing field.
Unfortunately, doing that also takes away all of your favorite toys of communism. So you can’t have it both ways. You want the government to stop being so fascist (in the sense of corporate- government led oligarchies)? Then you must insist also it stop being so socialist.
And thanks for your concern pal, but don’t worry about my “anger.” This is an act. I’m extremely happy and have a wonderful family. It’s also my birthday. I just enjoy gigging dopey commies. Call it a vice, whatever.
Best to you, etc.
Jake
May 25th, 2008 at 2:44 pmEmployee #8 —
You’ll find that I agree with you on most of your premises, regarding professional sports. Those teams, however, do not play in a free market, per se.
I’ll be glad to discuss those differences with you at a later date.
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As for this:
From the current City of Champions, Boston MA!!!
(First, thanks for the “softball.” )
So have we excluded Foxborough* from the Boston metro now?
Har! har har har!
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* Aside — I had eight housemates for soph, junior and senior years of undergrad, three of whom were die hard Boston fans (the other five were two Chicagoans (Bears/Cubs/W.Sox), and thre New Yorkers (two of whom were Giants/Yankess, the third Jets/Mets)), so there’s no amount of scheiss you can pile that I have not seen with regard to the various “rivalries.”
But this is a true story. Yesterday, my fellow Giant fan roommate went to Foxborough for the lax Final Fours (he was a big lax player back in the day).
He wore his Giants hat. That just made my day, as you might imagine.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:53 pm# 8 — no worries about “Kake” (or “Cake”) as it’s my oldest son’s nickname, and no offense to me.
And no, I think Kudlow’s a mite too optimistic for my tastes. But better that, than the latter, I say.
America has its flaws, but it’s still the best place on earth to live in freedom.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:57 pmAnd God bless all the troops, but especially on this Memorial Day, those at the tip of the spear, taking care of us today in ways we can’t even imagine.
Enjoy your freedom? Take a moment to thank a SEAL. He won’t expect it, believe me.
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May 25th, 2008 at 3:03 pmHell, as long as you can take a train/trolly to or from the venue it’s considered Boston around these parts!
I wouldn’t be so high on your Superbowl win …. see what happens to the G-Men next year first. They essentially won on a Hail Mary pass from a QB that was “in the grasp” and had his defenders pulled off manually to a receiver that made a lucky catch …. kinda Flutie like from a New Englander’s perspective.
Hey, there’s nothing wrong with supporting your home town team:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=zoom&Site=C4&Date=20080519&Category=SPORTS03&ArtNo=80519019&Ref=AR
or was that a message to Lebron James re his Yankee cap at an Indian-Yankee ballgame
or another way to thank SF for their #1 draft pick?
You be the judge.
May 25th, 2008 at 3:57 pmProbably more of a subtle dig at the NY Giants, if I believed Brady was capable of subtltey.
And our offense has never been good, your description of an alleged “in the grasp Hail Mary” aside.
We beat your quarterback to a bloody pulp that Sunday, and that’s why the New York Football Giants are the champions of the world, and the Pats were 18-1.
May 26th, 2008 at 11:01 amJake ,
Naomi Klein may be dumb in your opinion, but all of her claims would not exist if it were not for the copius evidence supporting her case.
May 26th, 2008 at 8:30 pmFriedman economics caused wealth gaps, hyper inflation, and a mass prime rape.
Perhaps your dumb for not recognizing these occurences.
Jake, the whole world accepts the fact that Brady had a bad ankle and was less mobile than his usually slow self except the dumbstruck G-Men fans. We could have gotten better play by our left guard and a field goal as well had an uncharacteristically aggressive/stubborn Bellichick not gone for the first down. Overall, the Giants got lucky and the NFL wasn’t gonna help the Pats at all after the spy gate charges despite the 18-0 record to that point. I’ll bet your QB returns to his usual form next season.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:17 amGreen Writer — the evidence is not “copious,” it’s specious.
Really, innumeracy is not something you want to trumptet, dude. Populism, by definition, is designed to sway dumb people, that’s why it’s called “populism.”
If you’d like to go into her claims, point by point, we can. But it won’t be pretty.
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May 27th, 2008 at 2:07 amSox –
Sounds like sour grapes, man. You lost, you scored the least points you did the entire season. Giants played their game. Slow, grind it out, good defense.
Bellichick knows it, since he invented it.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:09 amGW –
Here’s a round-up from The Economist on the collective smack down of Klein’s latest piece of agitprop.
It’s a good summary.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:27 am