WHO GOES THERE? Empty seats at Yankee Stadium as well as Citi Field have led to discount tickets to some high-profile games. (Bill Kostroun)
Big crash down at Pig Street and Greed. Two luxury limos blew stop signs and nailed each other, head-on.
Sunday, June 2, is a date that should live in what-comes-around, money-first, short-sighted infamy.
A Red Sox-Yankees, second-place vs. first-place game is scheduled in Yankee Stadium. A weekend Red Sox-Yanks game used to be a coveted ticket, the kind that drove the Yankees, in new Yankee Stadium, to out-scalp the scalpers.
It was the kind of game that pushed “Bottom Line” Bud Selig & Co. to sell their Sunday authority to ESPN, to switch Sunday 1:05 p.m. games to 8:05 p.m., soon eliminating the presence of logical patrons and their families, especially those with work and school, the next morning.
It was the kind of game that moved Selig to claim on YES, in April 2009, that he personally examined the Yanks’ ticket-pricing in new Yankee Stadium, declaring the pricing “affordable.”
The Commissioner of Baseball didn’t regard $2,500, $1,250, $850, $650 and $400 seats, $250 — per seat, per game — as shamelessly obscene, as a detriment to the good and welfare of baseball. Rather, he personally approved! But he also missed all those growth spurts, too, the kind that turned spray hitters into 60-plus home run beasts.
And so, the inevitable: The Yanks, in concert with MasterCard, are running a buy-three, get-four come-on to June 2’s game, first pitch 8:05. Yep, still plenty of seats available. Imagine that, Red Sox-Yanks tickets on special! Yanks will announce 40,000-plus, regardless.
The Mets, as The Post revealed Monday, now are directly dumping tickets on to StubHub, which explains why those who purchased discounted Mets’ tickets from StubHub received thank-you emails from the Mets.
In other words, those who purchased season tickets, partial plans and even single game tickets directly from the Mets — ostensibly the Mets’ best customers — are wholesale retail suckers. They paid more — in many cases, a lot more — than those who purchased tickets delivered, on the quiet, to StubHub.
Then again, perhaps the Bernie Madoff Rules still apply: You’re not allowed to ask any questions.
So to whom are duped dopes to complain, Bottom Line Bud? The only monetary grievances MLB addresses are from team owners.
Meantime, in the greed-stricken City of Diminished Returns, even with Matt Harvey expected to start at home against the Yanks on Tuesday, the Mets have concocted a reduced-prices tickets come-on, sans StubHub.
Then there’s the Dolan Gang, who give real-estate tax exemptions and loaded dice a bad name.
In addition to The Garden and its teams, Jimmy Dolan owns Radio City Music Hall. It, too, is running a special. It has proudly announced entry to its annual Christmas Spectacular is being sold on a “Buy Early and Pay No Ticketing Fees!” basis.
How proud they are! Christmas in May! That they’ll treat you “honestly” now is pitched as a special!
Still, if only that were the case.
To buy into this deal — tickets at $50-$135 per — is to provide Dolan a seven-month interest-free loan. All it ensures is that you won’t be further ripped off by the usual, unconscionable tack-ons, which can include a $5 per “facility fee” — whatever that means — added to the cost to enter Radio City after purchasing tickets at the box office! It’s a one-day PSL!
So Merry Christmas, ya’ll! As past and current hockey, baseball, football and basketball ticket subscribers have long known, you pay way up-front to give teams your business, and they’ll give you the business, all year long.
Network in race to ruin Rangers game with promo
“Wait for the whistles? Whistles? We don’t need no stinking whistles!”
Tuesday, NBCSN, Bruins-Rangers tied, 5:50 left in the third of Game 3. You begin shooting glances at the clock at the top of the screen. Suddenly, that clock vanishes, replaced, and all along the upper quarter of the screen, with a series of graphics.
The first read, “Formula 1,” then flashes to, “Monaco Grand Prix,” then, “Sunday, 7:30 p.m.” Three consecutive panels during late, live play in a 1-1 playoff game!
There was no other time, better time, for that? It’s like Robinson Cano wearing spikes. Why? Just to defy logic?
* The problem with Sergio Garcia — before, during and after this extended Tiger Woods affair — is that he is a lot like Woods: brattish, spoiled, temperamental and excessively self-entitled, thus often given to acting like a jerk.
Still, had this been a few years ago, when Garcia was among the hottest international figures, would any of his endorsement deals have been at risk by his racist crack?
* Of Walk-offs and Wake-ups: Reader Bob Nielsen, Baldwin, L.I., recalls the Yankees teams of the 1950s and ’60s winning the World Series “and not celebrating on the field one-tenth as much as today’s teams celebrate ‘walk-off’ wins.”
WINS Radio weekday morning sports anchor Marc Ernay busts John Sterling’s chops, makes us laugh.
Wednesday on WINS, sibling of the Yanks’ WCBS Radio, replayed Sterling’s call of Nate McLouth’s game-ending HR against the Yankees the night before. After Sterling declared that the Orioles won, 2-1, Ernay advised it actually was 3-2.
‘Great’ MJ-LeBron debate
Imagine spending 30 seconds, let alone 30 minutes, debating Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James. As if one’s a lesser great!
* Could see this coming: Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, once the most in-demand NFL TV interviews for his immodestly outrageous behavior, was jailed Monday for disobeying court orders, relating to previous mistreatment of his ex. But NFL pregame shows only are interested in celebrating the next Chad Ochocinco.
* UNC has an outfielder named, no fooling, Skye Bolt. Sounds like a table dancer. … On Mets’ radio broadcasts, the role-call/roll-call of the umpires is sponsored by Midway Wines and Liquors. Coulda been Cohen’s Optical.
* ESPN-NY’s Stephen A. Smith may be a self-congratulating, facts-free, bomb-tossing, glad-handing blowhard, but he does allow guests and callers the opportunity to be heard, to complete full sentences, even thoughts.
* Big layoffs at cable cash cow ESPN. Hey, as long as ESPN keeps throwing millions at corrupted college conferences and schools for rights …
* Mike Francesa, gambling man, claims he never trashed Matt Harvey, that he immediately, expertly and consistently identified Harvey as special. OK, then, I’m-rich Mr. Big Shot, $10,000 says late last August you trashed Harvey on the air as bogus Mets hype. Whattya say? We on?