October 30, 2009
Yankee fans only disguised as empty seats
Newsday has solved the mystery of the empty field-level seats at the Yankees' new stadium for World Series games, which had puzzled and enraged bloggers: According to sports business writer Neil Best:
As has been the case throughout the season, empty seats do not necessarily mean unsold ones.
Many fans with prime tickets spend parts of the game inside an adjacent restaurant with a lavish food spread that comes with the steep price of admission.
The fact it was misting much of the night Wednesday and that the Yankees went down meekly against the Phillies' Cliff Lee only encouraged fans to wander and graze.
So people are still buying multi-thousand-dollar seats for World Series games — they're just not sitting in them. Now that's the kind of fans that David Miller likes.
Posted by Neil deMause in New York Yankees
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