What the h**l is sense in yankees moving just across the street?

Question

why do people support the waste! of hundreds of millions of dollars? billions, in fact, while there are not enough homeless shelters in places like new york? where are the morals and values of people now? is this society that? hedonistic and materialistic?

Answer 1

where have you been? its been like this since the beginning of civilization. people care more about their own entertainment than people in trouble or need.  

Answer 2

More revenue from more seats means more money to sign better players.  It's gonna allow them to sign CC Sabathia, Aj Burnett, and Adam Dunn this winter!

Answer 3

its the Yankees money. If they chose to buy another stadium...thats their deal.  

Answer 4

well one reason is that the facilities are old so they came up with an excuse to make a new stadium if they were smart like the royals they would keep the original and build around it.  it is some much waste they could have kept every thing just added and made it better.  they are wasting a lot of money.  royals are doing the better thing keeping the old stadium and building the new one around it which will give fans a 360 view of the field any where you are sitting.

here is how they did it

http://www.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=2...

Answer 5

Phase 3: Profit!

Answer 6

Have you been to the current Yankee Stadium? It smells.  

Answer 7

newer nicer stadium n yankees kick ***

Answer 8

There's no question about it, our values as a society are skewed — and I'm as big a baseball fan as you'll meet. The Yankees are already baseball's richest team, and this will make them even richer, at the expense of the average citizen, even though the team can certainly afford to build its own damned ballpark if it wants it badly enough. I think it's crazy.

Answer 9

No different than what the White Sox did, but with (we hope) better results.  How about the fortune the Chinese went through to  produce an "Olympics" dedicated to games like beach volleyball and rhythmic synchronized wrestling?

Answer 10

Short answer:

Yes. People care more for their own entertainment than the care of others.

But, that's nothing new... why else would executions have once been considered a public event?

Just we have more means to achieve those ends now.

Answer 11

wha????

Answer 12

The New York Yankees are building the stadium largely with their own money (and some city aid). If they choose to build a new stadium, that's their business.

I agree that there should be more attention paid to homelessness and poverty. But the baseball forum is not the place to direct your concerns. Besides that, other teams are also building new stadiums and you haven't made mention of them. (Mets, Twins and Marlins are all in line to have new fields built.) Also, there's no guarantee that the land where the new Stadium is being built would be used for homeless shelters. (Take a look at the rail yards on Manhattan's West Side where the Jets wanted to build a stadium. All the opponents of the stadium claimed the stadium would take land away from public use for things like housing, but the land hasn't been used for anything for years.) Better to have the land used for something by a developer than to be kept vacant. Publicly-owned land is tax-exempt, so it doesn't generate any money for the city.