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June 23, 2011
The Case For Bringing The Los Angeles Dodgers (Or The Oakland A's) To Brooklyn
White Man Says Outrageous Things For Attention
A long essay about adding a third New York City Major League Baseball team is a non-starter — neither the Yankees or Mets would ever allow it.
As far as a new stadium goes, there's plenty of places in Brooklyn that could be redeveloped. And the City's past two administrations have been very friendly and accomodating toward new construction projects (see: Atlantic Yards, the proposed Jets Stadium in Manhattan, the proposed Olympic stadiums for the city's 2012 bid).
Stadium construction is a swindle. And a lot of people need to look closely at the real numbers behind that shit (see: Field Of Schemes), but NYC hasn't been as hard hit as the rest of the country in terms of the economy, and like I mentioned, they've already demonstrated a propensity to build.
NYC is also a three team town in hockey (Islanders, Devils, Rangers), soon to be a three team town in terms of basketball (Nets, Knicks, and whatever the team in Newark winds up being called), and was a four team town in baseball for a good part of the 20th Century.
Four-team town? Dodgers, Giants, Yankees and... Phillies? Red Sox? Better check the math.
NoLandGrab: The Jets' stadium project failed, and we'll just say that we find it highly doubtful that anyone in city government has the stomach for another Atlantic Yards fight.
Posted by eric at June 23, 2011 10:20 AM