New York Yankees baseball tickets
 

We will be in NY in August this year visting from Australia and would love to see a Yankees game. I see there is a home game on 4 August which will suit us perfectly. What is the best way to buy tickets? Would we have any hope of reasonably good seats if we buy them now? The only site I've found is something called stubhub - is this the only way to buy tickets? They seem to be a resale site - are they safe to buy tickets from?

www.yankees.com, and tickets section
or wwww.ticketmaster.com.
It will be less expensive than stubhub, but less choice, since on stubhub some "years ticket holders " send tickets to game they cannot be, but not only real yankees fan...(professional vendors and so...).
I'm not sure "individuals " game tickets are possible to buy now .
Erik

Ticketmaster does not sell Yankees tickets. You have several choices - in order of likely cost.

1. Go to Yankees.com and see if there are any tickets for sale - 100% safe, face value for tickets, but availability may be a problem.

2. An on-line ticket broker like StubHub. Reasonably safe, but you are buying from a 3rd party who lists tickets on StubHub - so there is always a chance they could be fake. I believe StubHub now offers a guarantee, but that will only get you your money back, not entrance into the game.

3. Buy from a ticket broker or thru hotel concierge, if there is one. They can always get you tickets to something - depending on if you want to pay the cost.

Some people buy from ticket "scalpers" on the street - near the ballpark you will see people waving tickets or yelling that they have tickets. This is officially illegal in most places, but enforcement is variable. Cost is what you agree on - sometimes even below face value, but not usually. And risk of getting fake tickets exists.

Have Yankee tickets even gone on sale yet? I was just checking yankees.com, and it didn't appear that there were any tickets for sale yet except for Spring training and season tickets. I could not find the date for when they would go on sale.

Keep checking the Yankees web site - untl the individual tickets go on sale. that will give you best prices - but you need to be careful where you sit. Froma lot of seats everyone looks like ants - even with binocs.

If you want better seats (usually sold out as seson tikets) you need to go to a reseller to get seats the regular ticket holder won;t use. Stubhub is the "official" reseller and is always relaible - but prices will varya lot depending on who the opponent is.

I use stubhub.com. Except for marquis games I've never had a problem getting good seats in the $60-80 range a week or so before the games.

Weekday games you can get tickets on stubhub the day of the game.

Who wants to see the Yankees anyway? Surely better things to do and see coming from Australia!
Bill in Boston

Them there's fightin' words Bill.

J in NY.

We bought ours through stubhub.com as well.

Bill's just a Bostonian who enjoys baseball in rat-infested puke-colored stadiums whilst watching a sack team that is merely 20 world titles behind the Yanks. And he's probably still pining over the Super Bowl (both XLII and XLVI).

To the OP: there are other ticket vendors than Stub Hub. Razor Gator and Vivid Seats also sell tickets to sporting events and are online ticket resale sites like stubhub. Compare and contrast because you can find better deals on one vs. the other depending upon who is selling and what he set for the price (we saved a ton on concert tickets on Vivid Seats in comparison to Stub Hub for same concert). And Ticketmaster does have a Stub Hub like service but I don't know if it lists Yanks games.

To BigRuss...grrr!

Thanks to everyone for your great advice. Certainly gives me a much better idea on what to do. I am loving that i've started something here between teams - reminds me so much of Aussie rules here in Oz!! And just so you know Bill in Boston, I would have loved to have seen the Redsox but according to the schedule they are not playing at home when I'm there (Aug 11-16)

You will have better luck with seeing a METS Game! Just as easy to get out to CITI Field as it is to Yankee Stadium

The Tickets will be cheaper. The team has no visions grandeur this year (or for the past 10 years!)

But it is a beautiful stadium, and has very loyal fans.

-john (a loyal Mets fan (sniff-sniff!)

I just checked the schedual. They will be playing the Phillies, that will be a hot ticket, but they will have a nice afternoon game(1 PM) on August 4th......the best time to see a game in my opinion!

It's much easier to get tickets to a Mets game - but then you have to watch them play. IMHO they can;t fied a competitive team.

As for the Yankees - I haveno idea where you can get "good" sets for $60 to $80. We are huge fans but don;t get to go often due to work - so when we go we want good sats. And I an;t remember the last time we paid less than $500 per ticket to get near the field.

How do NYers decide if they're Mets fans or Yankees fans? Is it just who you grew up watching - who your folks cheered for? Based on area you grew up in? I always wondered that.

My definition of good is this:

Main level (not field level), somewhere not too far outside 1st base or 3rd base. Close enough where you can see all the action. Low enough where you don't get a nose bleed, but still a reasonable price.

Sections 213-214B, 226-227B, and sections 210-212, 228-229

One doesn't decide if the are Mets fans or Yankee fans. I could say it's in one's blood, but I've known fathers/sons who were on different sides.

Maybe it's the water. Or diet. Or an extra gene. Who knows. But it's not a choice one makes - it's natural selection.

Ditto for Jets/Giants, Nets/Knicks, and Devils/Islanders/Rangers.

There is one thing that unites all NY sports fans. Universal dislike for these 4 teams.

Boston Red Sox
Boston Bruins
Boston Celtics
NE Patriots

ditto for
Phillies, Eagles, and Sixers, although not as intense.

And to you J62 whom I may often bump into in the Lounge I will say grrr! Just to let you know as a kid in St. Louis my NL team avidly followed was the Cards and my AL team was the Red Sox. I have little use for uppety Yankee fans. ) -:

Bill in Boston

So how soon before the season do Yankees start selling their tickets? I was considering stubhub because I can see what they have to offer right now and I would figure that whenYankees release their tickets, those that miss out will then storm stubhub so I might miss out completely. Oh what do to??!!

Thanks for the explanation, J! We had a chance to see the Yankees play the Red Sox, and it was a great game.

No - it's a mind set. Do you like winners or do you like underdogs? My B is a Mets fan - he feels sorry for them and thinks they need encouragement.

I prefer a club that make an effort to be competitive every year and values success (losing is the pits) - but have been a Yankee fan since I was 5 (and have programs signed by all of the biggies to prove it - Mantle, Maris, everyone you an think of from 1961 on).

As for getting a better price - unless the Yankees fold (something they haven't done in at least 20 years) the prices go up as the season goes along - and people come out to see them win and win again. The best way to get lower prices is to pick a really bad opponent.

You won;t miss out completely - unless it is vs the Sox - and you can even get those if you are willing to pay.

As for tickpick - I know noting about it. But as long as you paid with a credit card you can get a refund if the tickets are fakes. But I went to their web site and they didn't show any availability for good seasts (field boxes) at all - at any price - when stubhub has a bunch.

It's either a choice or hereditary as to which team you like. My dad was a ___ fan and so am I. Usually the offspring who don't follow the parents' lead are rebellious. Some are just smarter (oldest scion of our neighbors when I was young was the only Yankees fan in the house, the rest loved the Mets).

Lots of Mets fans are converts from Dodgers fans, from after the Dodgers left NYC for LA, and the progeny of the converts. So that's generations of losers.

And it's not necessarily a dichotomy - in the 90s Giants fans were Jets fans because Parcells was the Jets' coach and the teams rarely play each other (12 times in the regular season since 1970, Giants have won 8). Without the Jets, the Giants wouldn't have made the playoffs in 1981 (first trip in nearly two decades). Good Giants fans don't forget that (nor do we forget the Jets knocking the Giants out on the last week of '88). The mutual goodwill faded when Rex Ryan took over. Many baseball fans profess to like both the Yanks and the Mess, but when push meets shove, the Yanks win out unless the "fan" has some Florence Nightingale syndrome and needs to love the broken down stiff team.

Giants fans hate the Redskins, Cowpatties, Niners and Eagles - especially the Eagles. We don't hate the Patriots that much - that's a Jets-fan thing because the Jets like to think there's a huge rivalry between the teams even though the Pats have dominated, especially recently. And of course, the Giants beat the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII and XLVI so more of the hate flows the other way, right Bill?

Some people just pick wrong - friend of mine picked the Jets in the early 80s because they were "better" (10 wins in '81, lost in AFC title game in '82) and stuck with them for no real reason . . . and the Giants have won four Super Bowls since.

For basketball, it's a Knicks town, period. The Nets were less popular even when they were ABA champs and moving to NJ sealed that. The Islanders/Rangers feud once was the hottest on ice, but it's been far less relevant in the past 20+ years as the Isles have stunk; Devils/Rangers is a better rivalry now and the bereaved Isles fans (yep) now cheer on the Devils because rooting for the Rangers is anathema.

Tickets for individual games go on sale soon.

From the yankees website:
Tickets for individual Yankees games at Yankee Stadium will first be made available to the public through a MasterCard pre-on-sale online from March 22 at 10:00 a.m. until March 25 at 10:00 p.m.

Tickets for individual Yankees games at Yankee Stadium will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, March 27 at 10:00 a.m.

http://mlb.mlb.com/nyy/ticketing/onsale_priceless.jsp

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D'Antoni just "resigned".