I was at work Thursday afternoon, so I didn’t get to see the Yankee game live, although I did follow it online. What I did notice on Twitter were the many, many pictures of empty seats at the ballpark (see one of them above, and a video scanning the stadium below.) Granted, it was a late afternoon game, and the weather was a little gloomy. But it had stopped raining by the time the game started, and it was the first week of Yankee baseball in New York in 2016.
And, after all, Yankee team president Randy Levine did claim last week that Yankee ticket sales were up, didn’t he?
I was curious what the Yankees would claim the attendance was, given that it appeared to be significantly fewer than 10,000 in the crowd. So I asked my Facebook friends what they thought the Yankees would say. My friend Anthony guessed 30,000. He was very close; the official attendance was 30,003, the lowest announced attendance ever in the new stadium.
While that number didn’t have any reflection in reality, of course, it did indicate that Levine’s claim that ticket sales were up was not exactly true. Shocker, I know!
So I expected to see some stories in the media about the sparse Yankee Stadium crowds, especially given, as I previously wrote, that Opening Day did not have a full house either. And especially given how many people were at Citi Field for the Mets home opener. Not to mention that secondary ticket sale prices were much higher for the Mets than for the Yankees.
But, to the best of my knowledge, there haven’t been any big stories about the attendance drop. Very odd.
"30,003" RT @emknet_tickets: @[me] Yankee stadium pic.twitter.com/VmXLc2kBle
— Empty Seats Galore (@EmptySeatsPics) April 7, 2016
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