Question #61: What are you feeling today?
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- September
- 21
No. 61, by the way. A fitting number on the final day of Yankee Stadium.
I’m in the dilapidated Stadium press room around noon, and I’m feeling two things. I’m filled with memories and reminiscence. And anger.
I’m still angry that they’re tearing down a perfectly good—perfectly historical—stadium so that they can make more money … tons more money … from many of those much richer than we, obviously, across the street.
They could have put a fraction of the cost of the new stadium into refurbishing the old stadium, expanding it outward to fit food concourses and restaurants and whatever, putting in new luxury boxes, and saved the actual hallowed ground.
But, no, the Steinbrenners will make untold millions, of not billions, in the new park, and that is the absolute bottom line. The idea they’re doing it for us, who won’t be able to afford a ticket—you watch how the prices skyrocket after the inaugural season—is ridiculous, not believable and delusional.
That’s how I feel. How do you feel?
