[SteveR]

about the Yankees and sell out games;

they are a little misleading. The team changed the rules regarding scalpers and ticket sale caps after 2005. It used to be you could only purchase 6 tickets for any one game to deter ticket scalpers and make it harder for them. Starting in 2006, they lifted that rule and made it so anyone could buy as many tickets as they wanted for any game. So what you had were scalpers going to ticketmaster and to the box office at the stadium and buying tickets in huge numbers. Another rule they changed that year was that game attendance was measured by tickets counted at the gates apon entrance. Now it's solely counted on ticket sales for that game. So what that now means is that if all 57,545 tickets are sold for one game, it's considered a sell out, NOT if all 57,545 tickets are counted at the gate. So the scalpers are allowed to buyout the games, sell the tickets off for a higher price since fans can't get a hold of tickets like they used to, and not have to worry about loosing some money on tickets not sold. This way the Yankees get all the money for selling out each game regardless of how many fans actually show up. And to make matters worse, the new Yankee stadium will have LESS seats than the one now. But they will be adding luxury boxes for corporate rich folks. This will lower available seats for an already high demand, thus allowing the Yankees to increase ticket prices again. Probably with the excuse that they need to make money back from paying for the new stadium, of which they paid for on their own, and refused money from MLB and the city, at a cost of 1 billion dollars.