1. If the price drops to fill the seats I hope the NYY’s will do the right thing for those who paid face value. Litigation is such an easy thing these days and the NYY’s don’t need any more bad PR. Such as, “Ripping off the fans”.

2. If I’m sitting in a field box is it too much to ask to see the game? The old field box seats were 4 across. Now there are 10 seats!!! So every time someone wants food or has to hit the head as many as 5 people could have to get up. Why they did not keep these $350.00 seats with 4 across is beyond me.

3. There should be electronic ordering of food from every $350.00 seat. The people giving orders to the servers takes a long time. Now that there are 10 seats across you as a fan will have to pass food and money! I can see this in $80.00 seats but at $350.00 you want me to serve other people their food and drinks and stuffed animals. Then you want me to handle their money? I know this sounds stuck-up but if I wanted THAT type of experience I would not be paying $700.00 a game!

4. The vendors hocking their wares are a pain. It’s as if half the game is spent trying to look around people selling things so the Yankees can make money but the Yankees forget I’m there to see the game not spend 3 hours at HSN or QVC. Between the soda, water, beer, hot dogs, cotton candy, ice cream, cracker jacks, stuffed animals, programs and everything else you’ve got a min. of 10 types of vendors not counting food delivery that are always in your face. I HOPE the NEW stadium will allow fans to see the game and not be FORCED to watch and hear vendors sell their stuff and ruin the game, block the steps and so on.

5. If I’m paying $700.00 to see the game it kills me that people sneak into my seats and I have ask someone to see their ticket as they pretend they are lost or just act dumb. At time you have to call the “chain guard” and then everyone’s view is blocked as the person has to get out of the seat everyone has to get up and leave and then you get in your seat. There needs to be better security and no rotation of the guards at each section. That way each guard gets to know most of the season ticket holders.

6. Are people with $350 and above tickets going to have to wait in a general admission line? Security can take a long time and some of the people are rude. I don’t mind a guy sticking his hand inside my wife’s pocketbook but try and do it with some class. some of the security staff enjoys going through “well off” peoples things and they enjoy probing well beyond what is required.

7. Cell phones, cameras and even key chains can “ALL” take movies now. It’s such a pain to see security people running up to someone and asking “are you taking a moving picture”. The grab the camera, force the person to show them how to use it say we’re going to take your cell phone, your camera, your key chain!! It’s Nazi like. I can see in the 80′s when video was a big thing but it’s 2009. Let the armatures take their 30 second clips if they want. Leave the fans alone, let them enjoy the game and let take these clips home and use them as PR tools to get other to fill the seats. These cameras can’t compete with YES, FOX or MLB or a SI photo shoot. This OLD rule is just that OLD. It’s 2009 and the fan’s exp is about sharing it at home. Think of it as 50,000 people during a game acting as FREE PR for the Yankees, Yankee Stadium and baseball.
8. Let the fans know sooner if the game is going to be called because of weather. Tricking the fans to show up to buy beer is a dirty trick. Let people give their cell phone numbers and text fans in a timely manner as to the status of the game. Also allow the YES Network to scroll across the bottom of the screen the status of the game. YES shows classic games as we wait for the status. Most people in Manhattan who are corporate season ticket holders are all scrambling to get the status of games. Help us our New York Yankees, play fair. Give a up to the minute way to find out what’s going on. We just want the truth.

(walrus – that comment is directed at tsjc and is a joke, it’s not directed at you.)

From poster “SultanofWhat @BaseballFever:

Lon Trost on WFAN: 600 obstructed seats in bleachers that will sell for $5. Some were invoiced at $12; that will be corrected.

More seats behind foul pole (1500 seats on each side) that will have somewhat of an obstruction.

The Yankees had to cut off the sale of season ticket plans to allow for partial plans and some game-day availability. There was a surprising 24% increase (over a 7% increase the previous year) in season ticket requests. There were 39,000 season plans sold in 2008.

The Yankees have sold 75% of 104 available of some sort of seat (didn’t catch if it was suites or some other premium seating). [Can someone suggest what Trost was talking about?]

All luxury boxes but 7 have sold [this seems to have been stagnant for months].

40-60 people in party suites.

16-22 people in luxury suites.

Trost expects all non-premium seats to be sold out this year. Says the perception of corporate spending may be impacting premium sales more than the actual shortfall of available assets.

Sponsorship (signage, etc.) not affected “one iota”.

Trost is about to answer questions on WFAN from some season-ticket holders (this could get ugly).

The same cold logic that you express here is the reason this whole thing has been done wrong.
Your talking about some fans that have had tickets longer then you been alive. Although you maybe right in your statement this is still know way to treat the people who were there when you couldn’t give tickets away.
By the way there is a trickle-down effect to this whole thing. So save your money and good luck getting tickets.