NY Yankees new stadium

[Gatecrasher]

looks fantastic (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7980673.stm) :thumbsup:

[lyonhibs]

At a cost of $1.5 billion dollars???

Jesus!!!

[greenlex]

At a cost of $1.5 billion dollars???

Jesus!!!
Cheapest seats still only 12 dollars. They must have some sponsorship.

[Ringothedog]

looks fantastic (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7980673.stm) :thumbsup:

Certainly does but across the city they have built this:


http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ballpark/images.jsp


go mets!!

[Dashing Bob S]

The problem is that it's for baseball. As 80% of the action happens in the narrow strip between the batter and pitcher, it's been proven that only 12,000 seats are preferable to watching it TV. It's a rip-off and I hope they never fill it.

[GhostofBolivar]

Cheapest seats still only 12 dollars. They must have some sponsorship.

It was paid for by the tax payer.

[Haymaker]

It was paid for by the tax payer.

Really?! bloody hell

[GhostofBolivar]

Really?! bloody hell

Most every big stadium in the US is paid for by the city or state it's built in, then leased back to the team.

[Sprouleflyer]

At a cost of $1.5 billion dollars???

Jesus!!!

I might be wrong here, but is a US $billion not $100M and a UK £billion not £1000M?

[Falkirk Hibby]

looks fantastic (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7980673.stm) :thumbsup:

Give me Fenway anyday of the week! :agree:

[mim]

It seems like a fantastic amount of money compared to a football stadium over here, but remember one of our stadia is used 20 to 25 times a season, while the Yankees play 81 home games in the regular season and usually a good few more in the post-season, with the stadium packed for virtually every game.

[Disc O'Dave]

I might be wrong here, but is a US $billion not $100M and a UK £billion not £1000M?

Under the "old" system, a "US billion" was 1000 million, and the "UK billion" was 1,000,000 million

The more accurate terms are the "short scale" and the "long scale"

Short Scale - the next scale up is 1,000 x the previous
Long Scale - the next scale up is 1,000,000 x the previous

Officially, the UK now also adopts the short scale , hence our £billions are the same, and our megabytes and gigabytes are the same.



I'm available for hire for parties, and other events where sparkling chat is a must :yawn:

[Frazerbob]

It seems like a fantastic amount of money compared to a football stadium over here, but remember one of our stadia is used 20 to 25 times a season, while the Yankees play 81 home games in the regular season and usually a good few more in the post-season, with the stadium packed for virtually every game.

I went to a Yankees game the day Hearts fluked their SC win over Gretna and you're lucky if the stadium was a quarter full. Although it was the day after a home series against the Red Sox when every game was a sell out.

[Haymaker]

Give me Fenway anyday of the week! :agree:

I agree :agree:

[Shrekko]

I went to a Yankees game the day Hearts fluked their SC win over Gretna and you're lucky if the stadium was a quarter full. Although it was the day after a home series against the Red Sox when every game was a sell out.

13th May 2006?

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/wrap.jsp?ymd=20060513&content_id=1451861&vkey=wrapup2005&***t=.jsp&team=home&c_id=nyy

Official attendance of 53,906!

I think the Yankees were averaging about 51-52,000 in the last few years at the old stadium, although to be fair it's very rare during most games for everyone to be sitting in their seats. Dunno why that the case.

Crowds at the new park are a good few thousand down this season because they've not sold enough of the expensive seats. Once they get that sorted the place will be virtually totally full for every game.