Stadium Bullshit

We killed Boomberg’s West Side boondoggle of stadium, but the tab for the new Yankees and Mets stadium is approaching 2.5 billion dollars. The indefatigable Neil deMause is on the beat. About half of that is our money, commonwealth funneled to sky boxes for the rich, and thick wedges of profits for the owners of those teams, and the very, very few lucky boys who make millions playing the game. What a fucking waste. In the Bronx, a public park was sacrificed to private profit. Yankees fans, many of them well-off folks from the ‘burbs, should enjoy the shows to come, knowing the proles will paying for their precious proxy entertainment for generations to come. Sometimes, I really do wish we had a free-market instead of the in-plain-sight thievery that is our state/capitalist model.