America's team insulted by soccer commissioner

[franksolich]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jeLl_AwfIkRvsh53e6NeYB1cQg9gD97P3OVO0

Oh my.

Touchy subject: Yanks kick MLS after ticket remark

NEW YORK (AP) — Mention those empty seats at Yankee Stadium at your own risk.

Don Garber did.

A day after the Major League Soccer commissioner raised the subject, New York Yankees president Randy Levine blasted back.

"Don Garber discussing Yankee attendance must be a joke," Levine said Friday. "We draw more people in a year than his entire league does in a year. If he ever gets Major League Soccer into the same time zone as the Yankees, we might take him seriously.

"Hey Don, worry about Beckham, not the Yankees. Even he wants out of your league," he said.

Star David Beckham has been loaned from MLS' Los Angeles Galaxy to AC Milan through the end of the Italian Serie A season.

Speaking Thursday to the Associated Press Sports Editors, Garber said he'd noticed the unfilled seats at New York's two new stadiums. The Yankees' premium seats were more than half-empty for the five games following their home opener.

"It's incomprehensible that you watch a game, and there will be front-row seats empty," Garber said.....

[BlueStateSaint]

When those seats are $2700 a pop, for minor teams like the Seattle Mariners (who are doing quite well right now), one can only imagine the price for, say, the Red Sox series'.  It's got to be nearly double that.