The cost for four prime seats in new Yankee Stadium, as initially marketed, was $810,000 for the season. But that was last summer and so much has changed since then, with unemployment rates, federal bailouts and baseball's economy suffering. And so it came to pass, in the past 72 hours, that the Yankees informed the Pittsburgh Pirates that while they were interested in acquiring veteran corner man Eric Hinske, they wouldn't make the deal unless the Pirates were to eat half of his remaining sala ...

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