After a week of stories regarding the highest priced seats in Yankee Stadium going empty, Randy Levine is stressed. The president of the Yankees, one simply not used to anyone questioning how the Yankees conduct business, has instead been playing damage control.Friday, it seemed to finally hit his breaking point.On Thursday, Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber was speaking to the Associated Press Sports Editors and said the following about the high-priced seats going empty at Yankee Stadium."It's incomprehensible that you watch a game, and there will be front-row seats empty," Garber said.
Levine came back at Garber with a line shot up the middle on Friday, responding through The AP."Don Garber discussing Yankee attendance must be a joke," Levine said Friday. "We draw more people in a year than his entire league does in a year. If he ever gets Major League Soccer into the same time zone as the Yankees, we might take him seriously."Hey Don, ...
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Top ten team brands worldwide, 4 of them are US teams playing sports that are basicaslly US sports. We have a population of just over 300 million people. The other 6 I believe are soccer (futbol) but are drawing from an internation audience of over 6.7 billion. I think this just shows that the US teams which are drawing from a regional audience are much more popular than the international teams pulling from a worldwide audience. All the soccer (futbol) fans who think the US should just bow down at the "soccer (futbol) alter" should realize that in the grand scheme of things soccer really isn't that popular.
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