The Major League Baseball-leading 27 World Series championships and annually high payroll are just a couple of the reasons why the New York Yankees are the "Evil Empire" of professional baseball — and some would say of sports, period.
Adding to the air of regality was Yankees COO Lonn Trost recently insinuating that everyday blue collar fans who purchase tickets off StubHub don't belong next to a fan who paid full price for their seats.
Well, John Oliver isn't having it. The hilarious late-night talk show host read between the lines of Trost's controversial statements, blasting him and the Yankees without any mercy whatsoever.
"Wow! Wow! He's saying rich people couldn't bear to sit next to people who aren't as rich, which would be offensive if you were talking about the opera, much less a sport whose primary fashion statement is the goatee," Oliver said.
Oliver went on to guarantee that "there will be riff raff in those [premium] seats." Why? Well, Oliver's show bought two seats in the Yankees' elitist Legends Suite right behind home plate, for the first three games of the Bronx Bombers' season this week.
"We will sell them to you for just 25 cents per piece on one condition — you must dress like you have never sat in a premium location before," Oliver said.
Hilarious!
His epic and incredibly pointed rant came in response to Trost telling sports radio station WFAN about his issue with fans who purchase tickets at prices under their value.
"The problem below market at a certain point is that if you buy a ticket in a very premium location and pay a substantial amount of money," Trost said on WFAN in February, as reported by the New York Daily News. "It's not that we don't want that fan to sell it, but that fan is sitting there having paid a substantial amount of money for a ticket and [another] fan picks it up for a buck-and-a-half and sits there, and it's frustrating to the purchaser of the full amount.
"And quite frankly, the fan may be someone who has never sat in a premium location," he continued stating obnoxiously. "So that's a frustration to our existing fan base."
Well, you heard Oliver. To get those exclusive tickets for just 25 cents, you'll have to dress like you never sat in a premium location before.
Have fun with it!
