Yankees Want To Pay For New Stadium

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees have pitched a proposal to city officials to build a new baseball park across the street from Yankee Stadium at a cost of $700 million, officials and media reports said on Friday.

A spokesman for Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner said the team would pay for the entire cost of the new park, and city and state government would pay for improving the infrastructure around the stadium in the borough of the Bronx.

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That is a sacred place,no way should they knock it down unless it's a hazard.


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That is a sacred place,no way should they knock it down unless it's a hazard.


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It's been around for 75+ years. It will need to be replaced in the very new future.

It's been around for 75+ years. It will need to be replaced in the very new future.
no, you cant just leave yankee stadium. Renovate the place again, but dont leave it. The Yankees as much as I hate them, have to stay in yankee stadium, just like the cubs need to stay in wrigley, and the Sox in fenway.

no, you cant just leave yankee stadium. Renovate the place again, but dont leave it. The Yankees as much as I hate them, have to stay in yankee stadium, just like the cubs need to stay in wrigley, and the Sox in fenway.

It's not worth it to renovate again. Not enough space to do the things that need to be done ... media facilities, locker rooms, weight rooms, luxury boxes etc. etc.

They'll make a modern duplicate across the street.

There is no way, NO WAY their fans will allow them to do this. Yankee Stadium should never ever be replaced.

Yankee Stadium, while it is filled with plenty of history, does not have anything special to it. It's a generic ballpark that could use a face-lift. For a storied club to play in a park with no character (other than the fans), it doesn't feel right.

Let them build a new one to keep up with new technologies. It would be better for the fans and those of us who come visit the park.

There is no way, NO WAY their fans will allow them to do this. Yankee Stadium should never ever be replaced.

It will get done. They'd never let them move it to jersey or somewhere else. but they're moving it across the street, it'll get done.

Yankee Stadium, while it is filled with plenty of history, does not have anything special to it. It's a generic ballpark that could use a face-lift. For a storied club to play in a park with no character (other than the fans), it doesn't feel right. Let them build a new one to keep up with new technologies. It would be better for the fans and those of us who come visit the park.


It's Yankee freaken Stadium. What more character is there?

It's Yankee freaken Stadium. What more character is there?

It's a completely different building than the one Ruth, Gherig, DiMaggio and Mantle played in. They re-did it in the early 1970's.

It's Yankee freaken Stadium. What more character is there?
Take into account that I said OTHER THAN THE HISTORY. If any team other than the Yankees were playing there, it would have the charm of a funeral parlor.

I'm not sure if they've changed their minds on how theyre doing it, but a recent plan called for transplanting the facade, and soil from the current stadium to the new one. There's pics of models of the plan on this site (sorry, you cant enlarge them)
http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/future/YankeeStadiumII.htm

There is no way, NO WAY their fans will allow them to do this. Yankee Stadium should never ever be replaced.

I'm sure the same was said about Hab fans and the Montreal forum.

I'm sure the same was said about Hab fans and the Montreal forum.

Or Chicago Stadium, Tiger Stadium, Boston Garden, etc. These structures aren't going to last forever, Wrigley is falling apart. Eventually you have to say "thanks for the memories, but it's time to move on."

It's a completely different building than the one Ruth, Gherig, DiMaggio and Mantle played in. They re-did it in the early 1970's.


Someone needs to tell the national media then, every year the 'ghosts' come out. Except vs. the Angels and Marlins

Someone needs to tell the national media then, every year the 'ghosts' come out. Except vs. the Angels and Marlins
Ghosts just cant beat the rally monkey, I'm sorry.

Will this be the house that A-Rod built?

Will this be the house that A-Rod built?
if that was a knock at his salary, i must say thats hilarious haha. if not, A-Rod is overrated. 25 million should at least get you a triple crown threat. Ramirez is twice the player A-Rod ever could be.

I think A-Rod is the best damn position player in the game.

But at that salary, forget it.

I'd rather take Eric Chavez at half the money, and take the rest of the cash to build a decent bullpen.

it will be a sad day in Baseball when yankee Stadium goes bye bye
same with wrigley, and fenway,my two favourite ballparks

It will be sad to see Yankee Stadium go. Just like it was sad for me to see Tiger Stadium go. But there comes a time to move on.


Also lets give props to the Boss. He is funding this new stadium with his own money. He's not asking the tax payer to pay for it. Sure the city will need to fix the infrastructure around it. But they have to do that whenever a new building is built anyway.

When I first heard about replacing Yankee Stadium, I nearly lost my lunch. Trying to ponder why and how they could replace a building with such a storied history was aggravating. I did some thinking about it, and I've warmed up to the idea, for a number of reasons (let me preface this by saying I am a die-hard Yankee fan, and have been since I first realized what baseball was)

1. This is not the same park that Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, etc, played in. Yankee Stadium underwent a huge facelift from 1973 to 1975. In two years they removed most of the things that made it what it was on Opening Day 1923, with a few exceptions. The Yankees teams of 1976 to present play in a completely different park than the previous version. The dimensions are all different, most notably IMO it is 408 ft to the black now, not 475 ft. Monument park is now in the bullpen, instead of left-centerfield. The copper roof is gone, as is the brick facade.

2. I was at yesterday's game, and and in all honesty the ballpark itself could use another facelift if nothing else. The facilities are cramped, the parking is atrocious, it just looks worn down. Millions of people every year come to Yankee Stadium, and even in the lean years, they still pulled in fans at a little less than that rate. Multiply that over almost 30 years, and any building would show signs of fatigue. It's a structure, and structures are composed of man-made materials, which over time will inevitably break.

3. From what I have read here in NY, the Yankees are footing the bill for this $700M project, with very little taxpayer interest being invested. Macomb Dam Park (the site where it will supposedly be built) is large enough to accomodate a new facility, and if Steinbrenner can pay out to build it, then so be it. I've looked at the renderings of the proposed new park, and some of it I like, some of it is ok, and some of it I flat out hate, like the monstrosity of the retractable roof. It has the potential to resemble what the old structure looked like, and I am all for transplanting some original items to the new stadium; some things you just can live without.

Although I don't agree in principle with building a new park and tearing down Yankee Stadium, some things are inevitable. And, to refute the people who think otherwise, it will always be The House that Ruth Built. He put the franchise on the map, and had it not been for him, a new stadium would have been out of the question in 1923, let alone in 2004.