Keep in mind that the overall experience of going to a Yankee game is only going to get worse. They aren't moving to a better location. They are moving across the street. There will be fewer places to park, and good luck trying to have people from Connecticut, New Jersey, Westchester, and elsewhere switch to public transit. Everything will cost more. You know that. The real Yankee Stadium will be gone and in its place will be a theme park for the luxury box set.
The Yankees are hardly the first team to get involved in an enterprise like this. In fact, the Yankees have been insanely jealous of all those who've beaten them to it. But none of them had been playing in Yankee Stadium, with all that history and inherent goodwill.
Meanwhile, you didn't think a $1.3 billion ballpark could be built in New York without some chicanery, did you? People are asking questions, one of which is, "Was the value of the land under this new park artificially inflated in order that the Yankees could float bonds pitched to the phony value of the land, rather than the real value?"
I know all this ranting makes me just another Don Quixote railing against the windmill of corporate sport. So be it. You'll have to excuse me now. My horse needs watering.
Bob Ryan is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at ryan@globe.com.
