Why are the Yankees charging $2,500 for some seats in the new Yankee Stadium? Well, somebody has to pay for that building.
"The whole place, built of Indiana Limestone and Deer Island granite and 11,800 tons of structural steel, is opulent and massive," write Gordon Edes of Yahoo. "It's 63 percent larger (about 500,000 square feet) than the abandoned edifice across the street, the showpiece being The Great Hall, a banner-filled concourse roughly the size of an airplane runway."
Edes goes into great detail, too, about how the Yankees opulence flies in the face of the way most major league teams are dealing with the economy.
I've wondered now and then – not a lot mind you – if the palaces built for the Yankees in baseball and the Cowboys in football will one day serve as the Statue of Liberty at the end of Planet of the Apes. That is, two colossal, overly expensive, lavish structures that one day will symbolize the excesses of sport, and its downfall as they sit unusued and falling apart.
Yes, I clearly need more to do.
Love the image of Charlton getting off the horse, gazing skyward as the Yankee Frieze comes into view, falling to his knees, pounding the wet sand and screaming, "You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you. God damn you all to hellllll.
Pat, you're wasted writing sports. You oughta be in pictures.
Honestly, that is fantastic and frightening imagery.
Ever notice that the sun is setting over the Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes? How does that happen when it is the East coast?!?! Someday we will see the facade of Yankee Stadium doing the same thing. Damn you Hank Steinbrenner!