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Posted: May 25, 2023 at 04:14 PM | 15 comment(s)
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1. Howie Menckel Posted: May 25, 2023 at 05:04 PM (#6130109)ah, the dreaded "state of the art" clause. the Giants and Jets were able to get some concessions on a new stadium that they built because Giants Stadium was owned by the state and opened before "club seats" and other luxuries were a thing. Giants Stadium was well-designed, and impressive when it opened in the mid-1970s, but it was "state of the art" 30 years later by nobody's definition.
I say "some concessions" because - in a shocking and rare bit of fiscal sanity by public officials - state officials publicly noted that if the teams insisted on moving to another market, haha the joke is on you. This was before LA came off the table, so almost all other teams dangled LA as a threat since it was a bigger market.
ain't bigger than NY/NJ, though.
the teams own the new stadium but not the land, so what they got out of it was reasonable, locked-in rent terms while paying for the stadium themselves (less the $600M or so they claimed combined from the two sets of season ticketholders. imagine the people who use something being the ones who pay for a lot of its construction).
Anyway, this seems the first in a pretty standard series of steps:
(1) our reading of the lease says the taxpayers need to give us about half a billion. Some more tax breaks or a special tax district or something would be nice too.
(2) Golly, here we are 4 years later and still the taxpayers have not forked over half a billion. You know, at this point, they should probably just fork over $1.5 billion for a whole new stadium.
(3) Hard to believe it's been 7 years and still no new stadium. Gosh, Oakland, Montreal, Charlotte, San Antonio and (spins wheel) Salt Lake are looking pretty good.
(4) Wow, 10 years and still, just to get your attention, STILL we have to threaten to move to Oakland, Montreal, Charolott, San Antonio, Salt Lake or (spins wheel) Nashville even though none of them have offered to come up with $1.5 billion either.
(5) Finally, $450 M for repairs and the team will kick in $300 M. ... Alas, yes, often (5) hooray, new stadium.
this is exactly what the Giants and Jets tried. they extended their lease I think in the early 1990s and added the "state of the art" language precisely because of the imminent new era of the club-seat stadium (lots of $700 per ticket seats whereas Giants Stadium peak tix were not quite $100 - not were different beyond proximity to field so no private premium area behind the section to keep out the riff raff, carving board, designer cocktails, etc.).
The Jets tried a bluff of claiming they would return to Queens, but NJ and then the Giants told them if they didn't commit by a certain date, they were on their own. so they had to come in from the cold.
the initial naming rights deal was going to go to Allianz, which
a) had a lot of unsavory ties to Nazi Germany and
b) many Jets season ticketholders in particular had relatives before them who perished in the German concentration camps.
So MetLife Stadium it is (and the $1.6 billion stadium is as bland as the name).
At any rate, our enterprising reporter somehow forgot to say what exactly is "deteriorating" in the park, and though it's been 4-5 years since I've been there, it seems unlikely that the stadium will become unworthy of MLB anytime soon. That said, though, this seems like a lot of nothing - the stadium is almost 25 years old so it makes sense that it would need some work. If the "Park District" is responsible for those costs, then that's that. No big deal, even if Manfred has decided that he needs to be heavy-handed about it.
Of course since Miller is no longer the sponsor, the name Brewers is no longer relevant thus facilitating a name change for the team, the Milwaukee Cousins.
Sweet Jesus, did they dynamite the place?
WISN radio host, WISN is the local conservative talk station, so it was probably leaked to them to make a fuss over it.
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