Sunday, October 14, 2012

Empty seats at Yankee Stadium.

"For the second consecutive playoff game, swaths of empty seats filled Yankee Stadium, entire rows without a single fan. And on Saturday night, instead of letting them sit embarrassingly open for Game 1 of the ALCS, ushers were told to fill them with fans from other sections."

Part of it is a problem with MLB's weird scheduling, but it's mostly an unenthusiastic response by a spoiled fan base.

  
"Indeed, the face-value ticket prices are exorbitant. Seats for Sunday's Game 2 against the Detroit Tigers are available on the Yankees' website for between $113 and $688. The Legends Seats – behind home plate and the surrounding areas – range from $860 to $1,715. A spokesman for Major League Baseball said the league offers a variety of potential ticket prices to each team, which then chooses its desired pricing for its LCS home games."

It's noticeable.

One-percenters showing up in the playoffs, talking on their cell phones, and acting entitled to a walk-off grand slam.

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