The new Yankee Stadium: Don't care if I ever get back

[Forkboy]

NEW YORK - The new Yankee Stadium looks like the old Yankee Stadium on steroids.

That, as Alex Rodriguez will tell you, is not necessarily a bad thing. But it's certainly noticeable.

It dwarfs the old stadium, which sits across 161st Street, looking like a forlorn, punk little brother. It cost $1.3 billion, about what the Yankees pay A-Roid to play with them instead of Madonna.

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There are 86 different places in the stadium to buy vintage Don Mattingly shirts and Derek Jeter bobblehead dolls. Programs cost $10, a steal compared with the $25 yearbooks. At the 100-plus concession stands, the calorie-count for each item is thoughtfully listed. This, no doubt, will chasten the average guy from Canarsie as he weighs having that ninth Budweiser at 193 calories or the Bud Light, which comes in at a slinky 147.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/04/23/dont_care_if_i_ever_get_back/

[joeybee12]

1. If this were built in the 1980's during the shameless reagan years...

...the excess would have been appreciated, not today, though.

[TZ]

2. You've GOT to read this article that was posted in the Lounge

Fucking hilarious...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8717132

[Forkboy]

3. "Schilling bloody-sock rare."

:rofl:

great piece! :)