| Oh, a couple more reasons why the Yankees dont have even more people in the stands for their games...
A decent portion of the city's population is people who are very wealthy...people who look down upon things like going to a baseball game. I remember when I was working as a stockbroker, my boss (who made about a million dollars a year, no exaggeration) was making a big deal about how he was gonna go to a Yankee game. What made it really bad was the fact that he was like "And I'm going to take the subway!!!! I dont think I've EVER taken the subway before!!!"
People like that go to one or two games a year to make themselves think they're not the rich snobs that they really are, and that they really are just common folk. But they're not really fans, and dont go to a lot of games
Plus, there's a large contingent of hipster fucking ***gots who spend too much time trying on new trucker hats and discovering shitty bands with no talent instead of following sports.
As for taking seats out, why would you do that when the Yankees sell out so many games? I mean, every weekend home game gets 50,000+ fans. They have 13 guaranteed sell-outs a year: The ten games against the Red Sox and the 3 against the Mets. Thats roughly 20% of all the home games. Plus, if there's a big interleague series, like this weekend agains the Cubs, those sell-out too.
Taking out seats wouldnt make more people come to the games that bring down the average, but they would make less people come to the games that bring up the average. So the Yankees would make less money that way.
Also, if Yankee Stadium was the size of Fenway, they would sell out every game too. I dont think they've had a home game with less than 35,000 fans this year.
Also, the new Yankee Stadium will have less seats, but it's because they are building more luxury suites, which bring in more money than regular seats |