August 01, 2004
Mets: Us too!
It's official: The New York Mets say if the Yankees get a new stadium, they want one, too. "I guarantee anything they get, we'll get," Mets COO Jeff Wilpon told the Daily News, no doubt remembering that his team's lease guarantees this. Wilpon suggested that since the Mets might not need the $300-450 million in "infrastructure" costs the Yankees are asking for, the city could instead put that much cash into paying for a new Mets stadium. This free ride for the city is getting more and more expensive.
In other news, Yankees fans interviewed by Newsday were mostly opposed to the new stadium plan, with one calling it a "disgrace" to tear down the historic ballpark, and another noting, "Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth didn't play across the street." Even Yankee manager Joe Torre sounded less than thrilled by his boss' plans, telling the Daily News: "I think they've done great things with new ballparks and giving them personality, but this place especially, with all the championships and players who have come through here, you know it would lose some of the mystique that this is where it all happened."
