Get It While You Can

The Yankees built that new stadium which just opened this year and the word is that their ticket prices are so high that turnout is very poor. I know they've slashed prices once already, but perhaps they're still out of their minds. The following is from the J-Walk blog...

Option 1: Two tickets to Tuesday night, June 30, Mariners at Yanks, cost for just the tickets, $5,000.

Option 2: Two round-trip airline tickets to Seattle, Friday, Aug. 14, return Sunday the 16th, rental car for three days, two-night double occupancy stay in four-star hotel, two top tickets to both the Saturday and Sunday Yanks-Mariners games, two best-restaurant-in-town dinners for two. Total cost, $2,800. Plus-frequent flyer miles.

(via Kottke.org)

We've All Gone Crazy

This is a funny (funny-sad, funny pathetic) story from Boing Boing - click on the link to read the whole thing - about public safety run amok.

The NY Yankees banned sunblock at Yankee stadium "to prevent terrorism." On a blistering hot day. And sold high-markup, crappy sunblock inside the gates. You know, as soon as we said "There is no price too high to pay in the war on terror," we lost -- and every sleazy con-artist, profiteer, greedhead and crook won.