The House That ______ Built?

Well the Yankees opened up their lovely new stadium today with a lose to the Cleveland Indians. It was a great day in baseball history as one of the legendary teams in any sport opened a new stadium for the first time in their history since April 18, 1923. Any guesses on how much the original Yankee Stadium cost... $2.5 million, that is about how much CC Sabathia makes per strikeout! The original Yankee Stadium was called "The House That Ruth Built" based on the fact that without Babe Ruth the New York Yankees may not have been who they are now. Ruth hit 714 home runs as a Yankee and we still use his name when it comes to major home runs that are hit today.

If they called that "The House That Ruth Built," then who built the new Yankee Stadium. It was HOK Sport out of Kansas City, think they did anything to help the Royals in that stadium. Ok, well that was the architect of the stadium, really Turner Corp. from Dallas and Skanska USA Civil from Queens built the frame and steel. So I guess we should call the new Yankee Stadium "The House that Turner Corp. and Skanska USA Civil Built." Really it should be called "The House That the Taxpayers Built." This stadium cost $1.5 billion, sure the Yankees publicly funded it with $1.1 billion but the taxpayers put in the rest including $220 million for parking! If you look at the stadium there are advertisements all over the stadium, why could they not have paid for this stadium.

At least they did not change the name of stadium, so who really did build this stadium, according to the New York Yankee's radio broadcasters it is called "The House the George (Steinbrenner) Built."

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