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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Really? Yankee stadium was a hundred years old when they finally moved and it wasn't the pillar of modernity or amenities that many expect.
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And why did the Yankees leave it? Because people were balking at paying the massive prices they wanted to charge for premium seats. I used to sit in the lower infield sections of old Yankee Stadium fairly often, it wasn't cheap but I could afford it. The price for those same seats at the new stadium is multiple times more. I've only sat in those areas at the new stadium due to corporate hook-ups or getting comps directly through a friend with the club. I should add that there are also many times more suites and varying levels of premium seats than there ever were before, and guess what? The Yankees are raking in cash like never before despite not being at their peak on the field and being in a market that was hammered by the recession.
Edit: I should also add that Yankee Stadium was really only 40 or so years old when it was demolished, it was pretty much entirely redone.
As for Fenway, the Red Sox have done a fabulous job of marketing tradition and history, let's see that work with a concrete bowl in the middle of a parking lot.