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New York Yankees (27x World Series Champions)

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Sloopy45 said:
Why would any corporation (or person, for that matter) pay a dime more than they have to? The parking lots, subway, restaurants, & hotel are city improvements that the taxpayers don't mind shelling out for. Especially if they improve the neighborhood around the Stadium.


If i'm a taxpayer and the Wanks end up with an investment of next to nothing, then why the heck would I want to pay out any of my tax money? Will that neighborhood be hopping when baseball season is over for the Yankees in September? Uh, nope.

Their replies are quite entertaining. :biggrin:
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Brutus1: "If i'm a taxpayer and the Wanks end up with an investment of next to nothing, then why the heck would I want to pay out any of my tax money?"

Because that neighborhood (and the people living in it) need help. And the Yankees are the only thing that can help them. All the businesses in the area are kept alive by the revenues generated during the baseball season. Most of 'em almost lost their liveliehood during the '94 baseball strike.

If a major project like that can attract more people & more money into the area, I'm all for it. I don't care if my tax money is going to the right places. I care if my tax money ends up in the wrong hands.

"Will that neighborhood be hopping when baseball season is over for the Yankees in September?"

The money generated during the season is enough to sustain these businesses for the entire year. And besides, you're incorrect: these are the Yankees. Our season ends in late October.

"Their replies are quite entertaining."

Gracias.
 
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My feeling on a new Yankee Stadium or any other new stadium for that matter -

Im fine with it - as long as not one dime of public money goes to it. Sure the owners always want a new stadium. Wouldnt you want the gov't to pony up for your place of business as well? Talk about a sweet deal. And what do the taxpayers get back for their generosity? $60 tickets, $10 beer, $6 hot dogs, and $20 for parking. Why? Because MLB like most pro sports have been completely inept at controlling their costs.

Morally, I see no reason for public money to be used for a stadium any more than it should be used to put up a new chemical plant.
 
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from The Onion :biggrin:

Alex Rodriguez Nervously Awaiting Invitation To Spring Training

February 15, 2007 | Issue 43?07

NEW YORK - All-Star third-baseman and Yankee roster hopeful Alex Rodriguez is still anxiously waiting to receive official word that he has been invited to join the team in Florida for 2007 Spring Training, Rodriguez reported Monday. "I'm still confident, but I heard that Derek [Jeter] and Jorge [Posada] already got theirs, so I don't know what's taking so long," said Rodriguez, who has spent the past four hours peering out his front window waiting for the mail truck to drive by. "Maybe I should call the Yankees to make sure they sent it to my right address? They wouldn't have cut me. No. Certainly not. I'm sure there's a simple explanation for all this, and I'm just obsessing over nothing. Oh God, what if I was traded?" Rodriguez added that, should he not be formally invited to spring training, he will nonetheless show up, act like he's supposed to be there, and hope no one notices.
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This one's a little better.
 
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So, it wasn't an arranged marriage? :biggrin:

Divorce Upends Yankee Succession Plans

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Steve Swindal with George Steinbrenner during a spring training game on March 1st. Swindal was arrested last month on suspicion of driving under the influence.

By TYLER KEPNER
Published: March 29, 2007

TAMPA, Fla., March 28 - George Steinbrenner ate dinner in the cafeteria at Legends Field on Wednesday night, with his daughter Jessica beside him and her husband, Felix Lopez, next to her. Lopez merrily took out a cellphone and snapped a picture of his wife and his father-in-law. It was one big, happy family.

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MLB.com is repoting the same.

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NEW YORK -- Roger Clemens is a Yankee.

With those five words, displayed on Yankee Stadium's matrix screen in a surprise announcement during the seventh-inning stretch on Sunday, the 44-year-old right-hander ended all the speculation and confirmed his return to the Bronx.
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