TALKS ON YANKS' FUTURE GRIPPED BY THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE

          Yankees Exec VP & General Counsel David Sussman said
     that advance ticket sales, up over 300,000 from last year,
     would be "even higher" in a new stadium in a new location,
     according to Richard Sandomir of the N.Y. TIMES.  But,
     Sandomir notes that with the Yankees "ready to reap the
     financial fruits" of their championship, "all parties in
     talks about the team's future home have lapsed into an
     almost-preternatural silence."  Sussman: "There's no news,
     no meetings planned with the state and city."  While advance
     sales have reached 1.4 million, sales of full season-ticket
     plans increased 12% this year, but remain below 10,000. 
     Sussman: "We're very disappointed.  We're the world
     champions, but we've sold only 40 percent of what the
     Baltimore Orioles have sold, in a market that's, what, ten
     times larger?" (N.Y. TIMES, 4/11).  In today's NYC
     newspapers, adidas took out full page ads with the Yankees'
     logo over the word "repeat" (Mult., 4/11).