Yankees Wait Disgracefully Long Time to Cancel Subway Series Opener
By Michael Luciano
It's Subway Series time! The red-hot Pete Alonso and the Mets against Masahiro Tanaka and the Yankees! While this matchup looked pretty enticing on paper, apparently Mother Nature had other plans in mind.
The first game of this week's Mets-Yankees series in the Bronx was postponed just a half-hour before the game started, which will necessitate a double-header Tuesday.
Tonight's game has been postponed. It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader tomorrow, with the 1st game starting at 1:05. All gates will open at noon. The 2nd game will remain as-is, with a start time of 7:05.
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) June 10, 2019
We will follow up with ticket information shortly.
To further rub salt in the wound, the Yankees made everyone pay for tickets, parking, transportation, and food before canceling the game at essentially the last minute.
Once again you make people enter the stadium and pay for parking and food just for no game.
— Austin Wiatroski (@austinweo_) June 10, 2019
Don't worry, fans who blew all that money on a ticket for a game they won't get to see! At least you got some overpriced fast food.
Utterly embarassing. No way this decision was just made. All about the money made by opening the gates for an hour. Disgusting.
— Johnpaul Pucci (@jpooch0220) June 10, 2019
Considering that the forecast looked no different than it did an hour before the cancellation, this was either really poor planning or a total cash grab.
apologize to everyone who went there this is disgraceful
— shawn (@sjlbean) June 10, 2019
It astounds me how a team like the Yankees don't have the foresight to realize that they weren't going to squeeze this game in. At least the billionaires in the suites made their money on parking and concessions, huh?