Media blithely reported Yankee brass claims--NY Post

(NY Post): "The Yanks didn't get hurt by the economy... They insulted their most giving customers, challenged them to become the big, bigger, biggest suckers. And, like the optician who backed into the lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself, the Yanks became the victim of their own device....

• This story was available a year ago to all who chose to stop, look, listen and multiply.

• Yet, most media blithely reported the claims of Yankee execs Randy Levine and Lonn Trost:

Our big-ticket tickets are selling like hotcakes! Hurry, hurry! Don't get shut out!

Only after the Yanks' first few games in their new "cathedral" played to empty suites and thousands of empty seats

• did the media catch on to a story that was
• a lock 13 months ago."..."Yankees Explain Vacant Seats with Empty Words," by Phil Mushnick, NY Post, 5/1/09

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