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Old 01-14-2009, 05:35 PM   #419
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Originally Posted by Triple Naitch View Post
I'm pretty sure it's because the Yankees got NY to give them all this tax money after claiming they couldn't afford to finish building New Yankee Stadium and then went out and spent half a billion dollars on three players.
The half a billion dollars on Sabathia, Teixeira, and Burnett will be spent over the next 7 or 8 years, whereas the additional cash needed to construct the stadiums had to be invested immediately. The city of New York hopes that the new stadiums will increase tourism, and hence, bring in more tax dollars for the city.

Then again, the Yankees probably could have still afforded to build the stadium without tax dollars, cause they're the Yankees.
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