MLB uses Yankee Stadium to screw fans
Fans will pay starry prices for this year's All-Star game at Yankee Stadium.
Tickets will be priced at $150-$725 for the July 15 game, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday. That's up from $75-$285 for last year's game at San Francisco and $10-15 for box and reserved seats the last time the All-Stars were at Yankee Stadium, in 1977.
Tickets for the Home Run Derby and workout day on July 14 are $100-$650, an increase from $50-$225 last year. Tickets for the Futures game on July 13 are $50-225, up from $22.50-$125 last year.
Prices likely will decrease for the 2009 All-Star game, to be hosted by the Cardinals.
"They will be adjusted for St. Louis. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- instant memorabilia, instant memories," said Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer. "The regular-season ticket prices in New York are substantially higher than they are in St. Louis."
Everything is more expensive in NYC. Now if we can just figure out how to charge the comissioner's office for all the bullshit, we'd all be rich.
Why not just say, "Hey it's NY, they're used to getting fucked."
I paid $116.50 a ticket for a Sunday matinee to Spamalot and $4 for a bottle of water at the theater. At least the play didn't end in a tie.