Bill Madden of the Daily News writes an open letter to Yankees owner George Steinbrenner:
I realize it's been quite a while since we've been able to have a lengthy dialogue – I've missed those “whaddayou want, Madden” phone calls – but they tell me you still read your mail every day and that this is the best way to communicate with you. So through this medium I respectfully offer my two cents on your $1.5 billion new stadium.
I was glad you were able to make it up here for Opening Day and the new stadium's unveiling – I won't get into the trouncing the Indians gave your team that day to christen the place – but I wish it would have been possible for you to have said a little more than “it's beautiful.”
I say this because, if you'd been able to stay around awhile longer to witness all the empty seats and the disenfranchised common fans – thanks to the overpricing of everything in the place by your COO Lonn Trost – you'd have surely agreed that once you get past the old-timey frieze encircling the upper deck, the beauty of the new stadium is only skin deep.
It just gets better from there. Read the whole thing.