Each night of a Yankee home game, there are many views of the stands, revealing many seats and many sections which are completely empty. Even Yankee beat writers continually write about the empty seats and what a disgrace it is to the Yankees.

Certainly there are empty seats every night, especially in the pricey area where individual seats were going for $2650 per ticket. Even during the recent home series against the rival Boston Rd Sox, hundreds of empty seats were behind home plate and down the lines.

Never has this happened against the hated Red Sox. I have been to many Yankees - Red Sox games and the place was always packed.

Many factors are behind the emptiness of the stadium. First, the exorbitant pricing by the Yankees are far too out of touch for the normal fans. Second, even those corporates who are able to afford those seats, and you can be sure many of those empties have been sold. But those corporate suits don't want to be seen living it up on television during the down economy. That cement wall separating the privileged from the peasants doesn't help either.

There are many people dying to get a picture of video of some corporate fat cat having fun. Imaging if someone from Bank of America (a major Yankee sponsor) is seen having laughing, cheering on his team and having fun in seats which cost $2,650? People would be screaming for those TARP funds to be returned ASAP.

Those same people who would turn in that video of the Bank of America exec to TMZ are also the ones complaining that there are too many empty seats, and that the Yankees are looking foolish for having those empties. 

Also, there is so much to see and do at the new Stadium that many people do not even sit in their seats for much of the game, but are wandering around taking in all the grandeur.

Too many empty seats? Who cares? Is it really a problem the fans and media should worry about? Real baseball fans think more about the product on the field rather than the product in the seats.

The game is on the field, not in the stands. Whether you are there in person at the Stadium or watching the game on television, do those empty seats really upset you? Do the empty seats affect you in any way? Why? What do empty seats have to do with the Yankees playing baseball? I can guarantee you those empty seats do not bother the players one bit.

Bu even though there are empty seats galore, the Yankees still lead all of Major League Baseball in home attendance. Entering Wednesday night's game, the Yankees are averaging 44,787 fans per their 11 home dates. And Wednesday night's attendance was 42,585. Only the Dodgers average more than Wednesday's attendance, with Philadelphia and the L.A. Angels the only other two teams averaging more then 40,000 per home game. Even the New York Mets in their spanking new ballpark only average 38,200.

It is not actual people in the seats, but total number of tickets sold which constitute the attendance figures. Yankee management already have the cash.

I heard on the radio today from a certain heavy radio talk show host that the empty seats will affect the Yankees when they play because the team is used to playing in front of packed houses. I don't think there were too many packed houses all those years in Tampa. Was every seats full in Comerica Park in Detroit last week? No, but the Yankees won out there.

Believe it or not, these major league baseball players are so competitive that a real game could be played in an empty stadium WITH NO FANS at all and these players would still give 100% and try to win. The reason why they are major leaguers is because of that competitiveness.

True the Yankees have turned away the average fan to the tune of Corporate America, they missed the market and didn't realize the downturn in the economy would affect attendance in this manner, but it is the Yankees owners problem - not the fans, not the media's and certainly not the players. In fact, less of the great seats being filled benefits the average fan because there is more of a chance average Joe can see a game from that vantage point.

I understand that many higher priced seats are being offered on EBAY and StubHub for way below face value. The market rules and prices are falling.

Imagine that? Capitalism works.