In this age of highly specialized baseball — pitchers assigned the seventh inning, and, even after three groundouts on three pitches, only the seventh — the Yankees’ executive branch now has a Designated (bulls) Hitter.
From the moment it opened, new Yankee Stadium has been run like a clip joint, a challenge to the logical to get fleeced or get out.
The best-to-better seats were priced — $2,500, $1,500, $850, $650, $450 per seat per game — to be purchased not by fans but by corporations. But even corporations have limits. Stockholders, after all, likely are to ask why the company annually spends $500,000 for four tickets to ballgames, including Tuesday nighters against the Twins in April.