No one wants to pay gi-normous ticket prices to see them play.

As Phil Mushnick points out in the NY Post, the high ticket prices demanded by the two New York baseball teams are keeping fans away in droves—to the point where they can’t even sell out a game between the first place Yankees and the second place Red Sox.

….And so, the inevitable: The Yanks, in concert with MasterCard, are running a buy-three, get-four come-on to June 2’s game, first pitch 8:05. Yep, still plenty of seats available. Imagine that, Red Sox-Yanks tickets on special! Yanks will announce 40,000-plus, regardless.

The Mets, as The Post revealed Monday, now are directly dumping tickets on to StubHub….

As Mushnick notes, this makes anyone who actually buys full-price tickets basically a sucker….

Myself, I’ve always been reluctant to spend full price on Yankees tickets. (The best way to see a Yankee game: Get someone else’s expense account to pay for it. But that’s a problem too.) What if you spent $200 a ticket on decent-not even great—seats and then the opposing team scored 9 runs in the top of the first? Or it drizzled for 5 innings and then they called the game?

And in the meantime, you’re paying six bucks for a hot dog and $12 for a beer….

It’s just not worth it.