• 07 Oct 2009 at 5:00 PM

A-Rod’s Stimulus Program For New York

By Greg Michaels

Alex Rodriguez.jpgJoe Grano may believe Bobby Benmosche is worth more than Alex Rodriguez, but if history repeats itself, A-Rod may do more for the City of New York in the next three weeks than Benmosche likely will for years to come. With the best record in baseball and the American League’s victory in the All-Star game this year, the Bronx Bombers are in a position to bring post-season baseball (and money) back to New York in a big way.
According to the Economic Development Corporation, each home playoff game at Yankee Stadium provides a total economic benefit of approximately $11.9 million to the city. But based on the regular season, it looks like the Yankees should sail right through to the World Series. Enter A-Rod and his recent post-season performance. Should #13 continue his October ways, and the Yankees be forced go the distance in each series, the club will play 11 home games translating into just under $131 million in economic benefit. So while Yankee fans would love to see Rodriguez break-out during the playoffs and lead the team to three consecutive series sweeps, many New Yorkers may be secretly hoping it’ll be business as usual.
Yankees Home Playoff Games Worth $6.7 Million to NYC Businesses [Bloomberg]

Comments (14)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | October 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    Greg, I fucking knew it was you again. You’re quite predictable…

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | October 7, 2009 at 5:12 PM

    Greg, if I had a rod you’d be in a lot of trouble.
    -Jeff Macke

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | October 7, 2009 at 5:16 PM

    A-Rod takes it up the ass. Doo da doo da.

  4. 4
    Posted by american bandersnatch | October 7, 2009 at 5:28 PM

    You stupid fucking cunt. You, Greg, I’m talking to you, shithead. You just cost me 45 seconds of my life. That’s right. What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it, asshole? You’re fucking shit. Where did you learn your trade, you stupid fucking cunt, you idiot? Who ever told you that you could work with men? Oh, I’m gonna have your job, shithead.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | October 7, 2009 at 5:29 PM

    Greg,
    I want to be your catcher.
    -Alex Rodriguez

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | October 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM

    @4 Overrated movie.

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | October 7, 2009 at 6:21 PM

    Movies

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | October 7, 2009 at 7:19 PM

    Greg -
    I have a stimulus plan for you. It involves your head up your ass.
    Love,
    Mom

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | October 7, 2009 at 11:46 PM

    Good post Greg.

  10. 10
    Posted by Jeff Macke | October 8, 2009 at 12:26 AM

    Greg,
    I’m going to superglue a catcher’s mitt to your hand and a Yankees hat to your head and drop you off at Fenway.
    -Jeff Macke

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | October 8, 2009 at 8:10 AM

    What a monumentally terrible post!

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | October 8, 2009 at 8:44 AM

    now i understand why people bash greg. you’d think in finance, people would understand “small sample size” and how the press screws things up.

    supposedly, a-rod is not doing well in the postseason (and therefore sucking) but let’s check his actual performance:
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodrial01.shtml

    he has one pathetic series (detroit), 2 poor ones (one 3 games, one 5). then he had a couple kick ass (04 against boston, 00 against the yanks) and some others. his overall performance is worse than the regular season, but most players are worse in october vs the regular season.

    want to check something fun out? a-rod’s been in 39 post season games, had on base of 373, slugging of 483.

    here’s someone else – his first 37 post season games. on base of 329, slugging of 433. if you think a-rod sucks, this guy must be incredibly crappy. you’d NEVER want this guy up in october.

    you might know that other guy, better known by just his first name, reggie:
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksre01.shtml

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | October 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM

    edit on 12, it was kick ass against the twins in 04.

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | October 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM

    I thought this was Greg’s best article yet…

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