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In their first season under the lights of their new Bronx stadium, the Yankees won their 27th world title Wednesday night with a 7-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series.

The win is the team’s first championship since 2000 and represents the fifth World Series ring for the “core four” of Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada.

“You never know when you’re going to get back here, you know, so for all my teammates that have been here before and we couldn’t do it,” Posada said. “This really says a lot about our team. I’m excited. I mean I’m speechless. I’m really enjoying the moment right now.”

Rivera closed out Game 6, getting the Phillies’ Shane Victorino on a groundball to second to end it.

“Now it’s over. Now there’s a lot of celebration, a lot of smiles and that’s it,” said Rivera. “We win today and I’m going to rest now.”

The star of the game was Hideki Matsui. The Yankees DH was awarded the Series MVP award following his two-run homer, two-run single, and two-run double performance Wednesday night.

His six RBIs tied a record set in 1960 by the Yankees’ Bobby Richardson for most in a single World Series game.

Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte picked up the win, adding to his record of postseason wins and series-clinching wins.

The World Series celebration could be heard all across the city, but especially in the Bronx.

Fans who came pouring out of the stadium following the Bombers’ victory said they were glad they clinched the title at home.

“Amazing, amazing! Greatest game I ever went to. About time. A-Rod, Jeter, Pettitte, Matsui MVP, what more can be said,” shouted one Yankees fan.

“New president, new stadium, new champions, New York!” said another enthusiastic fan.

In Times Square, fans wasted no time stocking up on World Series souvenirs at Modell’s Sporting Goods. Read more..

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Derek Jeter has always provided structure to the New York Yankees’ lineup.

Now he may bring a structure to the city itself.

From the New York Post:

Bronx leaders have proposed naming the soon-to-be-built East 153rd Street bridge for the Yankee shortstop.

“There have been conversations at the community board, and I know the idea is being examined,” said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., a Bombers fan who confesses to a “man crush” on the Captain.

“It’s something I am ready to support. We’re moving on it.”

The 512-foot-long “Derek Jeter Bridge” would span the Metro-North tracks that bisect East 153rd Street between Park Avenue and the Grand Concourse. It will cost $87 million.

Community Board 4 District Manager José Rodriguez confirmed that the idea was being considered.

We always thought it was the bridge to Mariano.

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The New York Yankees are hoping to wrap up the World Series against the Phillies in Philadelphia Monday night. But if they lose Game 5 and have to go back to the Bronx to finish up the series, they really should get some of the fans from Sunday’s Yankee Stadium game-watching event into the ballpark. Because the Bronx backers at that event - local fans who were just happy to be in the stadium to cheer on their team- were far more enthusiastic and happy to be there than most of the postseason crowds at the stadium so far.

I went to the game-watching event with fellow Faster Times writer Jon Lewin - he’s the Met fan counterpart of Subway Squawkers, our New York City baseball blog. Barbra from Manhattan, one of our readers, joined us (she took the photo of the last pitch of the game, seen at left) .  Somewhere close to 10,000 or so Yankee fans were also at the event, where we watched the game on the 100-foot video screen.

The stadium officials let us sit in the field-level seats at the new ballpark, in front of the moat. We got to sit on the third-base line, right by the visitors’ dugout. So we finally got to see what it was like to luxuriate in comfortably cushioned box seats with wooden armrests. Seats were great, cup holders not so much. Two of us suffered overturned soda casualties thanks to poorly-designed holders. At $6 for a Sierra Mist, that hurt! Read more..

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9/29/09 Kansas City Royals vs New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium - A fan stands next to the new $75.00 seats at Yankee Stadium.

You’ll no longer have to mortgage your house to buy the best seats at Yankee Stadium next season, but you may still have to sell your car.

The Bronx Bombers are dropping prices in 2010 for their most expensive seats. The top-priced Legends Suite seats, which cost as much as $2,500 at the start of this season, will go for up to $1,500 next year.

They’re also reclassifying about a quarter of the Legend Suites to create a section called the Champions Suite.

While the Legends Suite seats, which cost $850 to $2,500 at the start of the season, will be cheaper, they’ll still cost a hefty $650 to $1,500 next year.

An April price cut of the 48 first-row seats in the Legends section dropped them to $1,250 a piece. Season-ticket holders who had already purchased $2,500 seats were given extra tickets to make up for the discount. The team also lowered the price of 68 less expensive seats in the section from $1,000 to $650. Read more..

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Even the cheap seats are getting cheaper.

It’s not just the top seats at the new Yankee Stadium that are selling poorly - tickets around the stadium are being resold online at prices well below face value, Crain’s New York reports.

Tickets for next Tuesday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles were listed for as little as $7 on fansnap.com, compared to $14 for the cheapest seats sold by the team directly.

At that rate, a ticket will cost you less than a beer at the spiffy new stadium.

Thirty-dollar grandstand seats are available for $11, and $50 seats in the outfield terrace section start at $17.

Faced with gaping blocks of empty seats, the Yankees cut the price of first-row Legends Suite seats from $2,500 to $1,250 last month. Read more..

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