I need to preface this post by saying that in 2004 – 05 I
worked for the New York Mets, not the greatest of times, but a big time
learning experience. I also want to emphasize again that this is not a
political blog, but sport and society are intertwined. This also could be
interpreted as another baseball bashing, so be it. When I found out that
Citibank, the latest financial institution to go on corporate welfare is going
ahead and paying $400 million for naming rights to the Mets new stadium I went
ballistic. This is wrong, that is your money and my money they are spending.
Just think how many teachers and mortgages that could be funded for that money.
The Mets owners are fiddling while Rome is burning. Having caught their act for almost a year I must say I am not surprised. Shame on you!
3 Comments
Carl Valle
Thank you. Rome is burning. I miss Boston Garden…..Candlestick…not the dot com and bank bullshit.
Fitness Blog
There is something wrong with a bank that is being bailed out by the govt. spending so much money on the naming rights of a stadium. That money could be used to help get the economy back on track
Sympathy
And people wonder why the country is going down the tubes.