John Oliver Holds Contest for Premium New York Yankees Tickets

John Oliver Holds Contest for Premium New York Yankees Tickets
John Oliver accepts the TCA Award for Outstanding Achievement in News and Information for 'Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; via video at the 31st annual Television Critics Association Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 8, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
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John Oliver is holding a contest to stick it to Loon Trost, New York Yankees COO.

Trost made controversial comments during a Feb. 18 interview on WFAN, regarding the fanbase of the New York baseball team.

“The problem below market at a certain point is that if you buy a ticket in a very premium location and pay a substantial amount of money,” Trost said. “It’s not that we don’t want that fan to sell it, but that fan is sitting there having paid a substantial amount of money for a ticket and (another) fan picks it up for a buck-and-a-half and sits there, and it’s frustrating to the purchaser of the full amount.”

Oliver is selling each ticket for 25 cents. There is one caveat.