The Yankees last week sent out "renewal invoices for next year’s season tickets" that “hiked ticket prices by up to 10 percent,” according to Balsamini & Sedacca of the N.Y. POST. The raise in ticket prices comes as the team sits at 62-68 and is 19 games out of first place in the AL East and 11 away from a wild-card playoff berth with 32 games left. Yankees season-ticket holder Andre Glenn said it is “insulting and infuriating to be talked to as if we are unable to comprehend what it is that we are seeing on the field every day.” Glenn said that his package cost him $4,860 in 2022 and $4,939 this season, a “2% spike.” Next year he said that his “price will climb almost 4% to $5,115.” Glenn: “It’s extremely bad optics.” Balsamini & Sedacca noted that “despite their anger,” Yankees season subscribers said that they are “probably going to renew” (N.Y. POST, 8/26).
SLAP IN THE FACE: FS1’s Craig Carton said the Yankees “hate their fans” after announcing they are raising ticket prices. Carton: “This is the worst Yankees season in 25 years, a bunch of bumbling stooges in every aspect of the game and to reward their fans for leading the league in attendance again they’re raising ticket prices by 10% across the board.” Carton noted “41,000 people showed up saying, ‘This is the crap that I’m paying for,’ and the Yankees said, ‘Yes, we’re going to charge you more next year’” (“The Carton Show,” FS1, 8/28).
WORTH WATCHING?: In N.Y., Bob Raissman wondered what exactly YES Network has to "sell going into 2024" if the rest of the season “continues at disastrous levels." If the Yankees are “going to continue playing mediocre-to-bad baseball,” their status as a “primetime attraction next season for MLB’s national TV partners will be diminished.” Raissman: “How can baseball’s TV partners (ESPN, TBS, Fox, Peacock, Amazon) automatically pencil them in for games against 'rivals' like Boston, Houston and the Los Angeles Dodgers?” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 8/26).
