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Poor g-mom now all she has is the yankees and they are off to bad start
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The Yankees have announced they are reducing the prices of many seats due to the fact that so many are empty. They say it looks bad on TV to see some many areas with no one at all there.Seats they are talking about are $325, $375, $500, $1200, $2500.
GTF out of here.Are you kidding me?Who is going to take his wife and kids to see a game at these prices? My Dad used to take me, my sister, and my Mom to games all the time.We went alot, and the stands were always packed.Even with the prices adjusted for inflation, these numbers today are insane.
GTF out of here.Are you kidding me?Who is going to take his wife and kids to see a game at these prices? My Dad used to take me, my sister, and my Mom to games all the time.We went alot, and the stands were always packed.Even with the prices adjusted for inflation, these numbers today are insane.
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The Yankees have announced they are reducing the prices of many seats due to the fact that so many are empty. They say it looks bad on TV to see some many areas with no one at all there.Seats they are talking about are $325, $375, $500, $1200, $2500.
GTF out of here.Are you kidding me?Who is going to take his wife and kids to see a game at these prices? My Dad used to take me, my sister, and my Mom to games all the time.We went alot, and the stands were always packed.Even with the prices adjusted for inflation, these numbers today are insane.
GTF out of here.Are you kidding me?Who is going to take his wife and kids to see a game at these prices? My Dad used to take me, my sister, and my Mom to games all the time.We went alot, and the stands were always packed.Even with the prices adjusted for inflation, these numbers today are insane.
I know ALOT of VERY rich die-hard Yankee fans , and even they say "hell no" to the prices - 5 grand for you and your wife to see a regular season baseball game ?
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The Yankees have announced they are reducing the prices of many seats due to the fact that so many are empty. They say it looks bad on TV to see some many areas with no one at all there.Seats they are talking about are $325, $375, $500, $1200, $2500.
GTF out of here.Are you kidding me?Who is going to take his wife and kids to see a game at these prices? My Dad used to take me, my sister, and my Mom to games all the time.We went alot, and the stands were always packed.Even with the prices adjusted for inflation, these numbers today are insane.
GTF out of here.Are you kidding me?Who is going to take his wife and kids to see a game at these prices? My Dad used to take me, my sister, and my Mom to games all the time.We went alot, and the stands were always packed.Even with the prices adjusted for inflation, these numbers today are insane.
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The Yankees have announced they are reducing the prices of many seats due to the fact that so many are empty. They say it looks bad on TV to see some many areas with no one at all there.Seats they are talking about are $325, $375, $500, $1200, $2500.
GTF out of here.Are you kidding me?Who is going to take his wife and kids to see a game at these prices? My Dad used to take me, my sister, and my Mom to games all the time.We went alot, and the stands were always packed.Even with the prices adjusted for inflation, these numbers today are insane.
GTF out of here.Are you kidding me?Who is going to take his wife and kids to see a game at these prices? My Dad used to take me, my sister, and my Mom to games all the time.We went alot, and the stands were always packed.Even with the prices adjusted for inflation, these numbers today are insane.
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Disappearing Cars
In a move largely seen as giving in to Washington, General Motors recently closed it High Performance Vehicles division. The HPV team was largely responsible for GM's most exciting cars including the Cadillac CTS-V and the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.
Bureaucrats have little use for performance-oriented V-8 powered cars, so don't expect cars like the Chevy Corvette, Dodge Viper, Chevrolet Camaro SS, or Dodge Challenger R/T to survive long term. Their survival is no longer tied to customer demand, but to the demands of the government that now controls the product portfolios and development dollars at GM and Chrysler. Recently, GM announced it was killing its Pontiac brand, a concept that seemed to define performance all by itself some decades ago. Now that brand is gone.
Ford Motor Company will also likely be affected. New emissions regulations may keep future V-8 editions of the Mustang in the barn.
According to John Wolkonowicz, Senior Analyst at HIS Global Insight, "With Obama's plan, everything changes in the domestic automotive world. The government will be able to dictate what General Motors and Chrysler can sell. Washington believes it knows what Americans should drive, and this bail out gives them the means to dramatically change the market." Wolkonowicz sees the potential for a significant narrowing of choice in the automotive market. He says, "With the power given them by the bail out, the government can simply mandate certain classes of cars and trucks out of existence, regardless of whether they are popular with American drivers or not."
After studying the government's response to GM's survival plan, Wolkonowicz believes that the only way for GM to secure government funds will be to become even smaller than they had proposed. The analyst expects GM to shrink to just two divisions, Cadillac and Chevrolet. Buick, Pontiac, GMC, Saturn, and HUMMER will all cease to exist.
Gallery: Pontiacs We'll Never ForgetWhile GM will soldier on in its smaller form, Wolkonowicz doesn't expect Chrysler to survive in its current form, even with news that Fiat has agreed to a broad partnership. If Wolkonowicz is wrong, the Fiat connection would provide Chrysler with needed small car vehicle platforms, but the fate of vehicles such as the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 doesn't look good.
Who Is At The Wheel?
This new age of government oversight in the automotive industry may progress using one of two strategies. The first path continues the current practice of setting regulations and then allowing manufacturers to meet those regulations. This allows manufacturers a high degree of flexibility in how they react while developing vehicles consumers want to drive.
However, the essential takeover of GM and Chrysler signals a more active role that will likely dramatically change the way the automakers do business. This second scenario removes the consumer from the auto manufacturing equation. Customer demand is directly superseded by political interest in ecology and energy policy. In other words, manufacturers will only sell vehicles the government allows them to sell.
Even with ever-present worries of fuel prices, some 70-percent of the orders for Chevrolet's all-new 2010 Camaro are for the V-8 edition that produces over 400 horsepower (while achieving up to 25 mpg on the highway). Clearly, American drivers want what they want. The question is whether that matches what the U.S. government will want Detroit to build.
In a move largely seen as giving in to Washington, General Motors recently closed it High Performance Vehicles division. The HPV team was largely responsible for GM's most exciting cars including the Cadillac CTS-V and the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.
Bureaucrats have little use for performance-oriented V-8 powered cars, so don't expect cars like the Chevy Corvette, Dodge Viper, Chevrolet Camaro SS, or Dodge Challenger R/T to survive long term. Their survival is no longer tied to customer demand, but to the demands of the government that now controls the product portfolios and development dollars at GM and Chrysler. Recently, GM announced it was killing its Pontiac brand, a concept that seemed to define performance all by itself some decades ago. Now that brand is gone.
Ford Motor Company will also likely be affected. New emissions regulations may keep future V-8 editions of the Mustang in the barn.
According to John Wolkonowicz, Senior Analyst at HIS Global Insight, "With Obama's plan, everything changes in the domestic automotive world. The government will be able to dictate what General Motors and Chrysler can sell. Washington believes it knows what Americans should drive, and this bail out gives them the means to dramatically change the market." Wolkonowicz sees the potential for a significant narrowing of choice in the automotive market. He says, "With the power given them by the bail out, the government can simply mandate certain classes of cars and trucks out of existence, regardless of whether they are popular with American drivers or not."
After studying the government's response to GM's survival plan, Wolkonowicz believes that the only way for GM to secure government funds will be to become even smaller than they had proposed. The analyst expects GM to shrink to just two divisions, Cadillac and Chevrolet. Buick, Pontiac, GMC, Saturn, and HUMMER will all cease to exist.
Gallery: Pontiacs We'll Never ForgetWhile GM will soldier on in its smaller form, Wolkonowicz doesn't expect Chrysler to survive in its current form, even with news that Fiat has agreed to a broad partnership. If Wolkonowicz is wrong, the Fiat connection would provide Chrysler with needed small car vehicle platforms, but the fate of vehicles such as the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 doesn't look good.
Who Is At The Wheel?
This new age of government oversight in the automotive industry may progress using one of two strategies. The first path continues the current practice of setting regulations and then allowing manufacturers to meet those regulations. This allows manufacturers a high degree of flexibility in how they react while developing vehicles consumers want to drive.
However, the essential takeover of GM and Chrysler signals a more active role that will likely dramatically change the way the automakers do business. This second scenario removes the consumer from the auto manufacturing equation. Customer demand is directly superseded by political interest in ecology and energy policy. In other words, manufacturers will only sell vehicles the government allows them to sell.
Even with ever-present worries of fuel prices, some 70-percent of the orders for Chevrolet's all-new 2010 Camaro are for the V-8 edition that produces over 400 horsepower (while achieving up to 25 mpg on the highway). Clearly, American drivers want what they want. The question is whether that matches what the U.S. government will want Detroit to build.
Goodbye Federal Republic ... Hello Socialism.
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