Yankees Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost has an elitist excuse for why secondary ticket sales were bad (emphasis added): Neil Best of Newsday recounted his explanation, as told to WFAN's Boomer & Carton:
"The problem below market at a certain point is that if you buy a ticket in a very premium location and pay a substantial amount of money. It’s not that we don’t want that fan to sell it, but that fan is sitting there having paid a substantial amount of money for a ticket and [another] fan picks it up for a buck-and-a-half and sits there, and it’s frustrating to the purchaser of the full amount.