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Yankee Fans Are More Excited for Derek Jeter Night Than Opening Day

By Eddie Small | March 30, 2017 3:35pm | Updated on March 31, 2017 8:11am
 Tickets for Derek Jeter Night at Yankee Stadium have already sold out, while tickets for the team's home opener are still available.
Tickets for Derek Jeter Night at Yankee Stadium have already sold out, while tickets for the team's home opener are still available.
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Yankee fans are stuck in the past.

Tickets for Derek Jeter Night — a nod to the bygone era when the team stayed alive deep into the post-season — on May 14 are already sold out on the official Yankee website.

But plenty of tickets are still available for the Bombers' home opener on April 10 (as are the two other games in the series against the Rays and every other home game in April).

It's a pretty safe bet that most fans rushed in to buy tickets to Jeter Night because the Yankees will retire the shortstop's No. 2 and unveil his plaque in the stadium's Monument Park that night, not because they are desperate for a chance to see a few at-bats from Houston Astros second baseman José Altuve.

Tickets for the game on StubHub are selling for as much as $5,500.

Jeter retired from the Yankees after the 2014 season and helped lead the team to five World Series championships during his career.

The team's lone playoff appearance in the two seasons since his departure was a one-and-done loss to the Astros in the 2015 Wild Card game, and several sports publications are predicting that the division will again go to rivals the Boston Red Sox this year.

Jeter will be the 22nd Yankee to have his number retired, which will officially take all of the team's single-digit uniform numbers out of circulation.

So enjoy the ceremony, Yankee fans, whether you happen to have a spare $5,500 and are able to watch it in person or will just be watching on TV. And if the 2017 season itself turns out to be not quite as exciting as the seasons were during Jeter's glory days, then you can always resort to watching this video on repeat: