I have to hand it to the Yankees, they are if nothing else, consistant:
Sign a free agent who took Steroids in HS
Sign a free agent who took Steroids in College
Sign a free agent who took Steroids in Seattle
Sign a free agent who took Steroids in Texas
Sign a free agent who took Steroids in NY
Sign a free agent who tips pitching signs TO THE OTHER TEAM
Sign a free agent who is 500 LB’s for 1 million per LB
Draft a player who has a drinking problem
Draft a player who’s mom has a Meth problem
Tell fans the game is cancelled just to actually play the game but not let the people back into the stadium that they had just told it was cancelled.
Yankees fans told Red Sox game cancelled, not let back into Stadium
BY Matt Gagne
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Tuesday, May 5th 2009, 11:21 AM
Sabo/News
Rain delay at Stadium causes mass confusion as fans who thought game was called off try to get back in, much to frustration of turnstile workers and security.
With rain falling for hours and no start time announced until shortly before 9 p.m., hordes of fans began leaving the Stadium and heading home – some who said they had been advised that the game had been called by Yankee employees who walked the concourse holding pinstriped “How may I help you?” signs.
When a 9:20 p.m. start time was eventually announced over the public address system, a crowd on the sidewalk outside Gate 6 tried to get back into the Stadium, only to have the employees working the turnstiles promptly close the doors in their faces. Panicked fans began racing up and down the sidewalk, trying to find a way back into the ballpark, while others remained at Gate 6 either pleading or demanding to be let back in.
“We talked to the security personnel, who said there was zero chance they were going to play the game,” said Tom Stuart, a 27-year-old from Astoria who waited out most of the rain delay before leaving with his girlfriend. “We spent three hours drinking beer – you can’t drink much because they’re 10 bucks apiece – now they’re going to play a game in front of 35 fans.”
Becky Wright, who flew in from Oregon for Monday night’s game, had bought two tickets as a birthday present for her 16-year-old son, Seth O’Neil. They left the game because “the guys holding the ‘How may I help you signs?’ said they weren’t going to play,” said Wright. They were among the hundreds of fans outside Gate 6 trying to get back into the Stadium.
Jason Zillo, a Yankee spokesman, said the team has a firm no-reentry policy. He also said the NYPD and Stadium security hadn’t let any fans back into the ballpark.
“We’re a part of hundreds of people, if not thousands,” said Martin Watson, a 39-year-old New Yorker who spent $800 for four tickets and tried to reenter through Gate 6. “This is not fan-friendly. This is B.S. You pay money for a top-of-the-line franchise, and you get bottom-of-the-line customer service.”
“I built this Stadium and they won’t let me in it,” a man wearing a local union jacket said before storming off.
While fans were being rebuffed outside Gate 6, scores were having their tickets rescanned outside Gate 4 and being allowed back into the Stadium, but that lasted only for a limited time.
One fan, who was wearing a No. 2 Derek Jeter jersey and a backward Yankee hat, approached a reporter to say he had been let back in, but couldn’t do so because the Yankees wouldn’t rescan his father’s ticket. A turnstile supervisor directed the reporter and several fans to the customer service window, which was locked.
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