As everyone knows, the Yankees’ new Death Star is opening its doors in April. And just how evilly awesome will the place be? From the sounds of the tour given to NEW YORK POST gossip diva Cindy Adams, it’s pretty freakin’ incredible.
Adams speaks of huge offices and locker rooms, urinals made of blue granite, heated and air conditioned dugouts, special hooks in the lockers just for hanging socks, and a super-secret locker room where players can go hide from the media (otherwise known as A-Rod’s office).
I guess, for $1.5 billion, the place better be nice:
Alongside’s a hydrotherapy blue- and white-tiled area with whirlpools and a Swimex thing wherein the current moves but you don’t and it’s as if you’ve swum 15 laps. Plus a trainers room for massages, rubdowns, X-rays, specialists, first aid and God knows. Plus a doctor’s office. Signs signifying each room are in Yankee pinstripes. Plus, to duck the dreaded press, a hidden super-private dressing room with giant wall mirror and 12 luxury closets. Plus a wall-to-wall mirrored gym (no equipment in it yet) so elegant it looks like a dance studio. Thoughts of Hideki Matsui at a ballet barre ran through my head.
The players’ 30,000 square feet just for themselves includes a dining suite. Two rooms. One with the handmade Yankee logo rug has couches for lounging, sipping, noshing and TVing. The other, with chafing dishes plus wherewithal to prep individual menus, is a catering hall. I mean, talk of catering!
If you can get past Adams’ typical nonsensical wanking and actually understand what she’s saying, the whole place sounds like something Saddam Hussein would’ve built for himself in the mid-’80s. Steinbrenner’s office is 6,000 square feet in and of itself. But, lest you think all of the goodies are reserved for the players and staff, think again:
The Legend seats, with real teak armrests, have everything but Yogi Berra personally on your lap. Order from a menu, and there’s your private dining room with burled wood doors, ultra-suede walls, blue and white Italian marble bars, matching rugs. Special lower-level exits open onto your seats. Also a grab-’n'-go dugout bar where, with pix of DiMaggio and his teammates, you feel you’re actually in a bygone era dugout. And circling the upper tiers? A red- and green-striped electric zipper flashes happy-looking dancing Premio sausages.
There’s going to be so much luxury oozing from every corner of the stadium, you’ll forget that you paid $350 to get in.
Now, if they could just work on getting leather seats, LCD screens, and a 30,000 square-foot waiting room for the D Train, that would be nice.







6:27 pm on February 18th, 2009
I thought I hated the Yankees before…
6:30 pm on February 18th, 2009
Dancing sausages? That is first class!
6:35 pm on February 18th, 2009
Sounds like a great place…which will be empty once again this October.
6:51 pm on February 18th, 2009
Wow, do I ever hate the Yankees. I'll take a Tuesday night game at the Trop over a trip to Steinbrenner's palace.
6:54 pm on February 18th, 2009
The next Yankee Stadium will also have bullpen carts - but they're all valet.
6:55 pm on February 18th, 2009
The chafing dishes it what clinched Teixeira on signing with the Yankees.
11:27 pm on February 18th, 2009
she is an idiot - those lockers are probably for the clubhouse attendants and other staff. They get lockers too and they are seperate from the players and coaches rooms in a big league clubhouse.
8:33 am on February 19th, 2009
Ah yes, what's that about a bad economy?
10:27 am on February 19th, 2009
But is there a room big enough for the Steinbrenners' egos?
4:46 pm on February 20th, 2009
All play and no work make the Yankees winless in October. What a bunch of spoiled brats. And to think NY taxpayers paid for THIS?!
6:58 pm on February 20th, 2009
You guys are just a bunch of haters… This is a One of a kind stadium that will be the envy of every other park in the game… and of you guys would bother to research anything before blabbing you would know that this stadium is being paid 100% by the yankees.. and obviously do not understand how municipal bond financing works.. how quick you are to criticize the team for spending money to better the team yet say nothing about the million of dollars the yanks pay in revenue sharing and luxury tax money to all the other teams in baseball… which by the way the usually pocket… Go Yanks.. Long Live The Empire!!