We’ve all been there. You feel a little in the dumps and the only thing that can cure it is a little retail therapy. But if you’re the Yankees and the Mets, and you feel a little sad because you missed out on the playoffs, a little retail therapy can be expensive (cough Johan Santana cough). So what’s a team to do? Well, if you’re moving to a new stadium like both New York teams are doing, why not take your old stadium and sell it off piece by piece to rabid fans—even the dugout urinals. Just think, you could take a leak where Steve Howe or Darryl Strawberry did blow in the 80s!

“At other stadiums, everything from the scoreboards to the dugout urinals have been snatched up by fans, but Yankee Stadium is in a whole other league of collectibles,” said Mike Heffner, president of Lelands.com, which has handled several stadium garage sales.

“Each brick could sell for $100 to $300,” Heffner said. “I doubt we’d have any trouble selling every seat in the house for as much as $1,000.

Each of the 55,000 bright orange seats at Shea could sell for as much as $500 - a drop in the bucket for the same fans willing to pay $12 for a cup of lukewarm beer at the game.

Bright orange or bright yellow—either way we look at it, you’re pissing away your money.

YANKEES & METS WANT THEIR CUT$ [NY Post]
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