John Oliver successfully trolls Yankees with the help of some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Out of the sewers, and into Yankees premium seats.
No one had a better time at the Yankees' Opening Day game than Joe Spillo and John Welch, who got to dress up like Michelangelo and Donatello and sit directly behind home plate, all for a measly $0.25 per ticket.
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How did they pull all this off? With a little help from the people at Last Week Tonight.
On Sunday's episode, Oliver called out the Yankees' elitist seating setup, which has ceased allowing fans to print tickets at home. When fans complained this would make it more difficult for them to resell tickets online, Yankees COO Lonn Trost took to the radio and threw some shade at the Yankees' less affluent fans.
If you buy a ticket in a very premium location and pay a substantial amount of money, it’s not that we don’t want that fan to sell it, but that fan is sitting there having paid a substantial amount of money for their ticket and a fan picks it up for a buck and a half and sits there and it frustrates the purchaser of the full amount...and quite frankly, the fan may be someone who has never sat in a premium location. So that’s a frustration to our existing fanbase.
Oliver decided to stand up against Trost and the Yankees by purchasing two Legends seats for the first three games of the season and doling them out to whoever proved they were least worthy of 'premium seating,' using the hashtag #ihaveneversatinapremiumlocation. Naturally, the first winners were Donatello and Michelangelo.
Hopefully they were able to snag as much free pizza from the exclusive Legends Suite club as the real Ninja Turtles would've.
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