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June 5, 2010
New Tactic in Fight Against Publicly Financed Stadiums: Humor
The Sporting Blog
By Andy Hutchins
Kudos continue to roll in for the Internets Celebrities and their latest video "Stadium Status."
"Stadium Status" is the brainchild of bloggers Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam, who together with director Casimir Nozkowski are the Internets Celebrities. (They're now NYT-famous, too.) In it, they bring their lenses and pens to bear on the changes wrought in the Big Apple by Citi Field, the new Yankee Stadium, and the Atlantic Yards project that will include the future home of the Brooklyn Nets.
They capture anger, in protesters chanting "Brook-lyn is not for sale!" They get laughs, from Mets fans conceding that a day at Citi costs hundreds of dollars and from public financing watchdog Neil deMause, author of Field of Schemes and the blog of the same name, as he considers how much everything cost. And they hit a lot of the necessary melancholy notes, talking to fans who saw Babe Ruth in his coffin and telling their own stories about hearing roars after Darryl Strawberry moon shots.
Posted by steve at June 5, 2010 8:29 AM