It appears The House That Greed Built is too rich for the blood of even the richest athlete in sports...
Tiger Woods is working on his stinger shot off the course as well. He went deep on the Yankees Friday with a swipe at what the "Evil Empire" is charging for admission to the new Yankee Stadium.
Complying with a trend in golf, the AT&T National host is letting kids under 12 in for free this week.
"We don't want to have what happened at Yankee Stadium," Woods said. "Tickets are so overpriced that you can't bring the family. We want to have everyone come out and enjoy being in a family atmosphere, walk around, have a good time and not have it cost an arm and a leg."
Yep. The most colossal arrogance of the Steinbrenner brothers is that they thought they could shakedown the public to pay for their million-dollar-a-day free agent habit, raising formerly $150 seats to $850 and charging $135 even for nosebleed seats in the upper deck. Or perhaps it's not a shakedown so much as just a desire to price out the more unsavory elements to try and prevent a Matthew Shepherd incident that would bloody up the place and piss off the maintenance crew. Or maybe they just heard Cynthia Rodriguez wants season tickets?
Beyond being a billionaire, Tiger Woods is also a guy who wouldn't say shit if he had a mouthful, so you know there's a PR problem in Yankeeville. Hey, Hank, Hal, take heed, because Tiger may just have started a fad here. If I were you, I'd take a good hard look at the ethicality of my business practices before you unleash the wrath of the likes of J.D. Salinger.
