Check Your Email To See If You Have "Won" The Chance To Buy Tickets On Monday

As we mentioned in a previous post, the winners of the Yankee ticket buying opportunity are being announced today.

We like to try our luck in lotteries like this, and wouldn't you know, our name was picked at random. To recap, we already had our presale password on Thursday from our 41 game plan, our presale password from our temporary 20 game plan valid for today's presale was still active (no idea why) so we had another opportunity for tickets this morning. Now, we will have one more chance on Monday before the tickets are released to the masses.

Before anyone gets too incensed, we aren't buying up all of the tickets for ourselves, or to scalp. As a matter of fact, we plan on giving Monday's code away to our friends so they can get a shot at tickets in the new stadium. That way, they won't be bothering us for tickets from our 41 game plan!

Keep an eye out for this email, and let us know if you are lucky in the comments. Read the full post, after the jump

Yankee Ticket News - Random Drawing For The Opportunity To Participate In A 12-Hour Online Sale

Gone are the days when the casual fan was able to purchase Yankee tickets at their leisure. According to a page on Yankees.com, the initial single-game ticket on-sale for the general public will take place exclusively online during a 12-hour sale on March 23, 2009.

Not just anyone can get in on this sale - only people chosen in a random online drawing will be allowed access to this exclusive sale. This sale will cover all tickets from the Cubs exhibition games through the end of the regular season. This is NOT a pre-sale.

As of now, there is no word of a subsequent on-sale for people who don't have lady luck on their side in the random drawing. It would make sense that there would be some sort of in-person on sale at Yankee Stadium or Yankee Clubhouse stores, but nothing has been announced.

Be sure to sign up for the random drawing by March 17, 2009 at 10 PM. After that, the only online purchases for Yankee tickets you will be taking part in will be on Stubhub or Ebay.

This general public online sale does not have any affect on the season ticket pre-sale opportunity. According to a ticket office representative, no date is set for the season ticket holder pre-sale, but they are "aiming for late next week for the license holder pre-sales." That would be the 19th or 20th of March, so clear the dates!

UPDATE (3:23 PM) - A level-headed commenter offered up the following take in regard to the Yankees selling out the entire Stadium on the online sale day:

That's a rather bold statement to make. The Yankees could NEVER sell out the entire stadium for 83 games in 12 hours. It's impossible, and wishful thinking on their part to get people to buy up all these season tickets on stub hub and make people contemplate paying for seats they cant afford (either in the "onsale" when all they're offered is 175 dollar seats or ponying up for the 325 seats)

That is actually an excellent point, and one that I overlooked in my haste to get this information out there. Could this be another Yankee tactic to get fans to buy tickets on their terms? We will have to wait and see...

Talk about it in the Stadium Insider Forums!

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