There was a game Thursday night when the Yankees’ marketing ploy suddenly was golden; when a real Supreme Court justice, Sonia Sotomayor, donned a black robe and sat in the Judge’s Chambers at the Bronx stadium to cheer on Aaron Judge.
But on most other nights, the whole costume party feels about as timely as last year’s Halloween gala. Yankees employees must scour the stands before each home game for enthusiastic fans wearing Judge jerseys, then ask if they’d like to relocate to the Judge’s Chambers in Section 104 — a paneled area of 18 seats arranged in three rows, set below and adjacent to the right-field bleachers.