New York Yankees Mo-Saver half-price tickets are no steal

Those looking to score dirt-cheap tickets at the Yankees' new same-day sale of half-off seats in the Times Square Modell's might get shut out. Fans on Thursday morning were shocked to discover that the least expensive pair of seats available for the Yankees-Tigers game in the afternoon were $250, or $125 apiece. Hardly the double-digit deals they were expecting.

"I am so not happy and I'm not coming back to Modell's again," Verna Barkley, a 59-year-old nurse from Brooklyn, told WalletPop.

The Yankees and Modell's partnered to offer slashed-price tickets beginning this week on the day of every Yankees home game. The arrangement is similar to the TKTS booths that sell Broadway theater tickets at reduced rates hours before the shows. Spare Yankees tickets for night games go on sale at 8 a.m. and tickets for night games are available at noon only at the Modell's Sporting Goods on 42nd Street.