The Times website always wants to get ahead of itself, seems like some reporters hit the wrong button and preview later articles to the whole world.  Last week it was stuck on Wednesday for a couple of days. 
Now, if only the Yankees would put their 6 run average in the right games, maybe we could get started and where were those 16 oz PBRs?

Ben—I love great beer just as much as the next guy.  In the context of Yankee Stadium as currently constructed, however, I think that maybe it would be better not to go super high-end in yet another aspect of the place.

Victory Prima Pils is quite enjoyable. I’ll admit to buying a six pack of PBR for 3 bucks at the bodega, or dollar cans of Coors Original, too, though. I’m a graduate student, sometimes I need to save.

9 bucks for a 16 ounce? That’s steep even for ballpark prices.

I found out yesterday that Citi Field has 12oz. cans of Brooklyn Lager for $6.50. You can get ‘em without leaving your seat, too. I gotta say, by ballpark standards (which, admittedly, are insane), that’s a pretty good deal.

This kind of complaint veers awfully close to “why isn’t the seat custom-molded to fit the shape of my @ss?” But then Fenway HAS Smithwick’s. And Sam. [$7.50, by the way, but the Bud was $6.75 IIRC]

Teaching tale. I used to work in a grocery store for a long time. At one point, a series of strange and inexplicable changes began to unfold. Until I came to find out that big companies were beginning to pay for shelf space. over time, this fundamentally altered the nature of what appeared on the shelves. Supermarkets aren’t free markets, they are showrooms. Ballparks are the same thing. You want your craft brew at Yankee Stadium? Pay. It’s that simple.

Sorry to underestimate your tastes, Craig, but I think the ensuing price comparisons show that microbrews don’t necessarily have to be way more expensive than generic brands. If the beer prices at Yankee Stadium are high, that’s because the Yanks only view their fans as walking ATMs.

John: Sorry, but Beck’s and Heineken are only slightly better than American generics, and to my mind they’ve got no more personality. (Stella’s pretty good, though) There are lots of great European beers, but those aren’t them.

I had someone tell me that Stella Artois was the best-selling beer in Belgium. I told them Bud was the best-selling beer in the US. Both true, both completely irrelevant.