About 30 minutes after the Baltimore Orioles defeated the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the ALDS to force a decisive Game 5 Friday in the Bronx, I checked StubHub to see what seats are available for it. I can’t get over what I found: There are more than 12,000 Game 5 tickets for sale on StubHub and you can get in for as little as $30.
Is this a joke? Over 20% of Yankee Stadium’s seats for the final game of the ALDS are for sale on StubHub and they start at $30?
Update: It’s just about 8 am on the day of Game 5 and, as the screen capture below shows, with about nine hours to go until first pitch, there are 11,745 tickets left on StubHub and prices start at $21.
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October 13th, 2012 → 9:53 pm
[...] If none of this is making things better, you can at least take comfort in the fact that Yankees fans are people too and Friday night’s game meant a lot to them, so much in fact that 40,000 or so of them weren’t in the stadium for the start of the game. Maybe they were waiting until the last minute to see if they could sell their tickets to someone else—well, 20% of them at least. [...]