It’s the normalization of the preposterous.
Who would you prefer to be ripped off by, the Yankees or the Mets?
I’d take the Yanks. They’re more blunt, take-a-hike direct.
The Yanks don’t pretend they’ve done right by their customers — who, oddly enough, they call “guests.”
On March 31, a Sunday afternoon, the Yanks began their game in the Stadium to an empty house — the announced crowd was 38,419 — after a 3-hour, 17-minute rain delay.
Then followed a 3-hour-48-minute game.
Thus the Yanks made suckers of those who didn’t attend and bigger suckers of those who did.