Yankees fans caught in security lines at AL Wild Card game, apparently (Photo)
By Josh Hill
The New York Yankees are playing for their season tonight, and a grand total of about six fans showed up.
The MLB Postseason unofficially starts tonight with the Wild Card play-in game on the AL side of things getting underway between the Yankees and Astros. You’d think that an atmosphere like New York where the team has been garbage for the last few years despite being so proud, would garner some attention from fans in the area.
If you thought that Yankees fans were going to flock to the Bronx to check out their team and support them in the 11th hour of the season — well, you were wrong.
Or right, depending on who you are.
As the opening lineups were being announced in Yankee Stadium, ESPN cameras desperately tried to avoid the fact that pretty much no one was there to take in the biggest game of the season so far.
Maybe it’s that New York traffic holding people up or maybe it’s the obscene ticket prices keeping them out. Perhaps it’s the fact that Yankee Stadium is more mall than ballpark — who knows — the bottom line is that it was a pitiful showing from Yankees fans for a game that every other team that missed the postseason cut would have killed to be a part of.
Apparently the problem stemmed from Yankees security being wholly unprepared for what everyone expect they knew would be a huge event.
Apparently thousands of Yankees fans stuck in security for 45+ minutes tonight... awesome. No crowd there for intros
— Corey Schwartz (@CSchwartz18) October 6, 2015
@gggiants a lot of people complaining about absurd security lines leaving thousands outside. Hard to believe Yankees would blow it this bad.
— Drew Tweedy (@abtweedy) October 6, 2015
The security measures have made Yankees stadium inpossible to get into
— Woke Jesus Baseball (@newkingofmedia) October 6, 2015