Apparently, the New York City Comptroller, William Thompson, says taxpayers are being hit with "astronomically steeper costs." Thompson is calling on Mayor Mc Big Cheese Michael Bloomberg (who by the way has already ordered the city's luxury boxes and season tickets be given back because this deal was effervescent) to delay a vote on ANOTHER $372 million in taxpayer dollars to the Yankees (remember, all this money, almost a billion in taxpayer giveaways for less than 30 full time permanent jobs) because of "incredible mismanagement."
Almost a billion in taxpayer money. Anybody here think the Yankees are going to give than money back through turnstile revenue? Concession revenue? TeeVee revenue? Hell no.
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NO Baseball team is worth building a stadium for that amount. I don't care where its located or who's on the team. and to make the taxpayers take on the brunt of the money?? and how much is Georgie Streinbrenner kicking in???
ALL the stadium costs are getting outrageous and we will see just how many games Joe Public will be going to on a Sunday..
You have as much chance of seeing the taxpayers made whole as you do have a chance of seeing the grey lady on last night's ghost cam
isn't it time to get some corporate money behind the stadium?? it seems like every other one all over the country has some big name behind it these days..
its terrible if the taxpayers have to foot the whole bill?? or have mayor Bloomberg throw in some of his monies since he's got the luxury boxes already ordered...
Bingo two both anonymous commenters. This STINKS. And Johnny's a huge sports fan, it's not like he's whining the libraries and zoos are being ignored while this happens. It's time the richest franchise in all of sports (no, not just baseball, all of sports) starts paying their own way on something other than players salaries...
Once again, its the OWNER'S RESPONSIBILITY. They want ALL the bells and whistles, go for it. Get all the HIGH priced players your budget will allow. But don't EXPECT the taxpayers to kick in for your expensive habits.
Actually, if you think about it, baseball is going to be elminating the bleacher patron. it was a cheap day to take the family to the ballpark.
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