Let the selling begin…

It seems that the Yankee Stadium chop shop is already open for business according to a Daily News article this morning by Greg B. Smith.

“A day after the Yanks played the last game in the House That Ruth Built, items from the storied ballpark were for sale - prompting fears that the taxpayers who own the place were getting stiffed again.

“Whatever value is in the old stadium ought to be retained for the taxpayer,” said Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, whose committee is investigating taxpayer support of the new stadium.

Early this month, the Westchester Democrat asked the city agency in charge of selling off the old stadium what the Yankees were entitled to sell, because the city owns the Stadium.

He has yet to get a reply.

That’s because for the past seven months, the city and the Yankees have been entangled in negotiations over who gets what.

The Mets, who are building a taxpayer-supported stadium, announced last month they would donate their 30% share of proceeds from memorabilia to charity.

Neither the city nor the Yanks will talk about the negotiations.

Meanwhile, the team is selling what they say is theirs.

Steiner Sports, which has partnered with the Yankees to sell team memorabilia, Monday offered a 30-by-18-inch piece of the center field scoreboard for $699 and a 10-by-10-foot hunk of blue carpet with the NY Yankees logo from the clubhouse for $10,000.

Also on the block are five glass 31-by-60-inch shower stall doors from the clubhouse with Yankee logos for $2,000 apiece”

Read the full article here and then sign our petition; we may still be able to save the parts that are “nailed down”.

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