Non issue to me.
I am by no means a Rudy fan but who cares. If a team wants to give a Mayor or Senator or the President some tickets or memorabilia they should be allowed to.
Absolutely not. Can't these morons debate the real issues?
What a joke. Those rings are not for sale to the general public at Yankee Stadium kiosks.
Another reminder that Rudy is a dirty Yankee fan.
Where do I go to buy a ring? Do I just write the Yankees and ask them, or do they have a web site somewhere to take orders?
The players don't buy rings. The owner doesn't buy a ring. In fact, virtually no club SELLS these rings. So the claim that you "paid what everybody would pay" is absurd -- there is no market price for something nobody sells.
Now that I've said that, it is also true that the rings have a manufacturing cost, and he probably paid for that manufacturing cost.
But to ignore the intrinsic value of having an item that nobody else is ALLOWED to buy is misleading and false. It doesn't matter if he intends to sell them or not, the value at the time he purchased should include the rarity of what he was buying.
If he had bought them at an auction, I'd agree he paid "fair market price", but he didn't, and to suggest he did is to lie to the American People.
Since he is also claiming he didn't buy them until he was a private citizen, then he should be MAN ENOUGH to just say "Yes, I bought the rings as a private citizen, I have a relationship with the team and they sold them to me at cost. I value that relationship, and make no apologies for wanting the rings.
The absurd thing is that he got to sit in a box with George Steinbrenner for most games. Again, he might have paid the "price" of a seat, but none of us could sit in those seats. Politicians always get special treatment, and it's perfectly legal, but then we pass stupid rules about certain inconsequential "conflicts of interest", ignoring the big fat conflict that comes from being given access to stuff nobody else has access to, like seats to the game and championship rings.
If he did not pay for it when he got it minor offense. If it was a surprise gift he decided to pay for no offense.. The man is for tax payer funded abortion and were talking about the NY rings..
Yet another reason to hate Rudy. He is a fan of the Yank-offs, like his friend Rupert Murdoch.