Why do baseball teams keep building new stadiums when they have a fine stadium already?
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Is there any chance that Babe Ruth was on some sort of steroid?
more seats, nicer concourse, suites, or cause they just want a new oneWill the Tigers make any big trades this season, if so, what??
As of late those teams really need them.The Mets - Shea is in really bad shape
Yankee Stadium - The house that Ruth built? It's time to move.
RFK - Is not a real basball park and it is old as well.
The clubs need a new venue bad.
Please pass on to all Cardinal and Cubs fans that you know?
State of the Art Playing Surface, Skyboxes, more Advertisement and Private Excusive Clubs.When does baseball season offically begin??
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Define fineWhy are the Red Sox wearing Green uniforms right now vs the Yankees?
revenue sharing tax breaks. the new yankee stadium will save the yankees 50 million a year.Who will reach the 60 HR mark this year, if any?
Money.Many of the older stadiums do not have (or have many of) the revenue-generating luxury boxes the older ones do. These luxury boxes often draw 5 figures each per night. Also, many of the older stadiums have such a large capacity that they would not have any sellouts throughout the year. Having a stadium with a smaller capacity makes it feel more intimate, and actually will draw more fans than a larger stadium, which will always look very empty, even with 30,000 or more fans there.
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cause newer and better stadiums generate more income. more people will go to the games with new stadiums, making it possible for the owners of the teams to spend more money on good players.What team went wire to wire in 2005?
Attendance, simple as that. People go to see your new stadium even though they are not a baseball fan.This leads to more ticket sales, more concessions, and like everyone else has said...luxury suites.
Poor A.J., booed, punched, and booed some more?
well - most of the new ones are replacing cookie-cutter era stadiums that were good for nothing.lately, aside from that, i think some teams also realize they need to "catch up." if you look, except for a few, most ballparks that exist today have been built in the last 15 years. with the exception of Boston, Chicago, New York (both stadiums will eventually be replaced), and LA (If they tear Dodger Stadium down, baseball is over).
Fenway is one of the best parks around. you cant beat that place. it's as old as the Titanic (literally - it opened April 15, 1912), but it's a great park. and the "new" one that's been proposed looks exactly like Fenway, except it has a club level.
the parks you see today will be with us for decades. by 2010, I reckon Fenway and Dodger Stadium will be the only "classic" parks left. Yankee Stadium will be demolished, Shea will be gone, Kauffman in KC will be massively renovated to look like-new and the Twins finally get out of the Hump on Chicago Ave.
And, now they're even talking about the possibility of replacing Wrigley.
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