  Leannam1989 Member Username: Leannam1989 Post Number: 233 Registered: 06-2008 |
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/ news/story?id=4002027 "NEW YORK -- Two grand? Fuhgetaboutit. If you want to buy a front-row seat at the new Yankee Stadium for an individual game, the list price of a ticket is $2,625." Good grief. Only the Yankees. | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4245 Registered: 11-2007 |
Isn't a new semi-pro baseball team supposed to start at the old Pontiac Mall ? I'd watch AAA or A over anything else, any day. WWW.pontiacclassabaseball.com | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1843 Registered: 01-2008 |
Gotta hand it to the Bankees. Cashman...what an ironically appropriate name for their GM. | ||
Crash_nyc Member Username: Crash_nyc Post Number: 404 Registered: 08-2004 |
A few months ago some mogul here shelled-out $400k for 2 seats on the Jets 50-yard line, first row. The kicker is that his $400k only gives him first-pick preference for those seats. He still has to pay an additional $14k/yr for season tickets! I wonder if he gets a complimentary ass-warmer for that price... http://www.nypost.com/seven/10 192008/news/regionalnews/400g_ jets_tickets_the_priciest_ever _134246.htm | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19573 Registered: 11-2006 |
I would never spend that much, but, if someone wants to...more power to them. | ||
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc Post Number: 1752 Registered: 12-2007 |
Crash...He should be getting a hand job at the beginning of each quarter for that much... | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2050 Registered: 11-2003 |
That's cheap for New Yorkers used to multi-million dollar bonuses. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 4005 Registered: 01-2005 |
Bleacher seats for 75c at Briggs Stadium was heaven to me. Everything's relative. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19586 Registered: 11-2006 |
Good for them (New Yorkers) if they earn the big bucks. Is that supposed to be a bad thing Comrade? | ||
Alsodave Member Username: Alsodave Post Number: 777 Registered: 10-2003 |
LOL @ Flanders. The Yanks better produce this year, or Cashman's likely out of a job. | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4264 Registered: 11-2007 |
$Thank you, Ccbatson$ quote: What's a $100 Million dollar bonus here and there. | ||
Vic_doucette Member Username: Vic_doucette Post Number: 178 Registered: 10-2003 |
If somebody wants to spend that much for a ticket to a baseball game, that is entirely their business. These days, my favorite baseball is free. You can come see it, too, and admission won't cost you a dime. In fact, if I am announcing the game and you come to the announcer booth while I am there and tell me you saw this announcement on www.detroityes.com, your first hot dog is on me. Limit one to a customer, please. www.michiganmiracle.org | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4270 Registered: 11-2007 |
Baseball, the way it was meant to be. http://www.rochestergrangers.c om/2008.htm | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2055 Registered: 11-2003 |
quote: Would you call me names like "Comrade" if we were discussing this in person? If not, then please refrain from doing so online, even if you have nothing of substance to add to the discussion. | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4272 Registered: 11-2007 |
According to Cc, I'm a hippie, socialist, and commie. Even though I served In the United States Navy. Those with 20,000 posts, complain the most. | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 419 Registered: 02-2006 |
Bigb23, the ballpark at Summit Place (Diamond at the Summit) will not be opening this season. Hell, they never even broke ground on it! The team will be playing at EMU's baseball stadium instead. I just wonder why they couldn't get a deal to play at OU though. Would have been much closer to their so-called fanbase. http://www.cruisersbaseball.co m/ | ||
Lowell Moderator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2263 Registered: 09-2003 |
'tis true. I learned about this last year. A friend of mine who knows the Nederlanders [of Broadway fame and part owners of the Yankees - and from Detroit] told me they had paid $810K for their four seat box behind the Yankee dugout. They shrugged it off since as owners it would ultimately be discounted by the profits they earn. Makes $10 dog sound like chump change, eh? | ||
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc Post Number: 1761 Registered: 12-2007 |
Like I said... Handy's...and not even that would justify the price | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 2161 Registered: 03-2006 |
Beers were 10 bucks last season at Yankee Stadium. I saw the Tigers there and the park was empty! Met some nice Yanks fans though. (hard to believe) | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19613 Registered: 11-2006 |
East Detroit...comrade is a term of endearment isn't it? Better check the dictionary. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2056 Registered: 11-2003 |
Everyone knows how you were using that term. And no, it's not cute or a game to call someone names. It simply demonstrates a lack of substance and indicates a proclivity for argumentative behavior rather than an earnest will to openly discuss points of view. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19636 Registered: 11-2006 |
That simply is not a matter of name calling...it wasn't even directed at anyone in particular. Some may have taken it to be insulting if they fit the description of the generic socialist depicted in the comment. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2058 Registered: 11-2003 |
Oh, so now it's a "generic socialist" you were trying to depict, whereas yesterday it was a "term of endearment". Glad you admitted that you were playing games and really intending it as an insult in your eyes. Apology accepted. | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1856 Registered: 01-2008 |
quote: Yeah, right, if so, then you would have had to instead post the encompassing plural "comrades" instead of the direct, singular, and capitalized "Comrade" AND in parenthesis (New Yorkers). Pretty obvious that this question was primarily directed at East_detroit, and not anyone else. (Message edited by Flanders_field on March 24, 2009) | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2065 Registered: 11-2003 |
Flanders, you're correct. Ccbatson admits guilt and exudes an apology by making conflicting statements and then skipping this in his daily selfish running of the board. Why the admins allowed me to go through the mental anguish of being called a name every time someone reads this thread... I will have to follow up on in THE PEOPLE'S COURT. 10 minutes to Wapner. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19699 Registered: 11-2006 |
Clearly, it was generically addressed to anyone criticizing the people choosing to spend their money on these seats (and many on the thread were doing just that). Criticizing, or more to the point, calling into question the right of an individual to spend their wealth in any legal manner that they see fit is collectivist/socialist as is/was communism. Russian communism being the largest example of this mentality prompted me to invoke the phrase used by them to refer to other members of their collective..."comrade". | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2066 Registered: 11-2003 |
Thought you said it was a term of endearment? Are you just playing games and trolling? | ||
Cinderpath Member Username: Cinderpath Post Number: 964 Registered: 05-2006 |
-This is why overall attendance is down, sure there are a few people willing to pay that much for a seat, but the last few professional games I have been too, there have been a lot of empty seats. Sorry but your average game with crappy seats, parking and few beers will easily set you back $200, there are a lot of better values for the entertainment dollar out there. They have simply priced themselves out of market. What till a lot of the wage cuts hit the masses, then it will really show. It'll be interesting when the players finally get their share of pay cuts, personally I have never felt any athletes are worth what they get paid such as A-ROD. I simply will not support it. As for CC, well, he's just a poor soul looking for attention, and tries to get it by any means necessary-facts be dammed. Some day when he grows up he might even be able to be in a normal healthy relationship with somebody. I'm sure his pick up line of "I've got over 20,000 post, and people still are not interested in me" could use some fine tuning however. | ||
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob Post Number: 1924 Registered: 10-2003 |
How's that "ignore" function coming? | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19715 Registered: 11-2006 |
It is a term of endearment amongst 2 communists. | ||
D_mcc Member Username: D_mcc Post Number: 1808 Registered: 12-2007 |
No... A comrade can be socially or politically close, a closeness that is found at the etymological heart of the word comrade. In Spanish the Latin word camara, with its Late Latin meaning "chamber, room," was retained, and the derivative camarada, with the sense "roommates, especially barrack mates," was formed. Camarada then came to have the general sense "companion." English borrowed the word from Spanish and French, English comrade being first recorded in the 16th century. The political sense of comrade, now associated with Communism, had its origin in the late-19th-century use of the word as a title by socialists and communists in order to avoid such forms of address as mister. This usage, which originated during the French Revolution, is first recorded in English in 1884. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2076 Registered: 11-2003 |
Now CC is saying that he meant he and I are communists.  | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19748 Registered: 11-2006 |
I already explained, in detail, the root of the word in MY usage of it folks. I didn't mean to suggest that I was a communist, rather that I was extending a comforting welcome to the recipient of the phrase as a comrade in the sense of a communist being welcomed to group of other communists. More specifically, the group of communists being referred to here are those folks on this thread objecting to an individual having the freedom of choice to spend their money as they see fit (within the law). | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 7992 Registered: 10-2003 |
The ever-changing Official, but unpublished, Glossary of Batsonia explains all. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2089 Registered: 11-2003 |
Okay, so now its not a term of endearment and instead it has gone from "generic socialist " to calling me a "communist" because I don't like Wall Street failures getting multi-million dollar bonuses that my tax money helped pay for. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19774 Registered: 11-2006 |
I said nothing about the now federally employed (by their choice) Wall Street executives and their bonuses. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2092 Registered: 11-2003 |
I didn't say you did. I said you called me a name. Goodbye, CC. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19782 Registered: 11-2006 |
Fair enough....is it name calling to call somebody a Democrat? A liberal? a Neo con? | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2094 Registered: 11-2003 |
Already said goodbye. Parting is such sweet sorrow. Adios! |
