Cushioning The Blow.

     The best seats in the house at the new, $1.3 billion Disneyfied Yankee Stadium will set you back anywhere from $500.00 to $2,625.00 each.

     They have teak armrests and come with concierge service.

     Those seat cushions sure will feel nice after all that pinstriped sodomy. 

Sell Outs.

From the AP, via ESPN:

Two grand? Fuhgetaboutit.

If you want to buy a front-row seat at the new Yankee Stadium for an individual game, the list price of a ticket is $2,625.

Individual game sales for the first season of the $1.5 billion ballpark start Tuesday, and the Legends Seats that ring the infield start at $525 a game, according to the team's Web site. Those seats cost $500-$2,500 as part of full season tickets, and they include food and soft drinks.

Other field level seats cost $95, $150, $275, $300, $350 and $375. Then comes the Delta Sky360 Suite, where tickets are $375-$800, and main level tickets, which are priced at $60, $80, $95 and $150.

On the top deck, seats in the Jim Beam Suite go for $130-$150. Terrace seats are $50, $75 and $85, and grandstand tickets cost $23 and $30. Full view bleachers are $14.

Meanwhile, the top ticket at Dodger Stadium is $500.00. Baseline seats range from $65.00 to $285.00. The Left Field Pavilion seats--where I was sitting in 1988 when Kirk Gibson hit that classic World Series home run off the A's Dennis Eckersley--are $11.00, and Top Deck seats are $9.00.

A 25-ounce Guinness and various games on several TVs in the sunshine at Naja's is $7.00 plus tip, but they don't sell peanuts or Cracker Jack.