I really love the fact that it’s the Audi Yankees Club that’s located on the H&R;Block suite of the club level.  That’s taking corporate sponsership to the max.  What’s next?  Corporately sponsored parking lots and seats?  Instead of in the A lot, you park in the Fed Ex Kinko’s lot.  Instead of sitting in section 204, row GG, seat 7, you’ll actually be sitting in the Coke Zero seat. 

This has really gotten out of hand.  Then again, it’s the Yankees, so what do you expect.

Does any other organization, anywhere in the world, have an official luxury vehicle?

For each of the last couple of seasons, the Brewers have had a partnership with Mercedes-Benz. The field level party area, directly behind the rightfield fence, has been called the Mercedes Benz Field Haus and if a Brewers player leads off the fifth inning with a homerun that lands in the Field Haus “on the fly” (they always have to say “on the fly”), then someone in the audience would win a 1-year lease of a Mercedes. Needless to say, that never happened. Plus, everyone wondered why Mercedes felt like Milwaukee’s blue collar fans were the best use of their money.

Of course, Mercedes pulled out of the deal in December. The area will now be called the “AirTran Airways Landing Zone.” Cheap, no-nonsense airline? Yeah, that seems to fit Milwaukee a little better than Mercedes…

Does this mean that Yugos are the official vehicles at Citifield?

I went to Soldier Field a handful of years ago and scalped some seats that ended up being in the Cadillac club seating or whatever the hell they called it.  No, I don’t like advertising all over the place at a ball game either but the Yanks are hardly alone here.

On the other hand, there is “EMC club” aka “The .406 Club” and “The 600 Club”

Changing name to EMC used to tick me off to no end. But then a couple of my friends started working at EMC and can hook me up with tickets, I got over it.