photo via @baldvinny

There’s always a $230 million payroll in the banana stand.

If you haven’t heard, the folks at Netflix have been sending the legendary big yellow joint/Bluth company frozen banana stand around New York City to promote May 26th’s ‘Arrested Development’ season 4 premiere. This act, by itself, gives season 4 of ‘Arrested’ 100% more promotion than it had in three seasons at Fox.

Courtesy of @BaldVinny comes this pic of the stand outside of Yankee Stadium, qualifying it as “sports” enough for me to write about it here, and possibly add it as the show’s 16th best sports moment.

New working theory: Alex Rodriguez needed hip surgery because he ran into The Wall.

Some ideas are better left un-executed. Paul over at Ted Williams’ Head decided to make a scale model of Yankee Stadium out of gingerbread, and I’m not kidding when I say that I wish some gingerbread inspector would come along and condemn it, because it’s pretty horrible looking. I’ve seen xkcd strips with more detail. But seriously, Paul, that’s a solid effort for a guy that only had two colors’ worth of icing. I would put my money where my mouth is and make a gingerbread Great American Ballpark, but I don’t spend time in the kitchen on anything that I can’t eat. It’s a good rule, really.

That Yankee Stadium floor really should have a football layout; he’ll never get it converted in time for the Ducking The Relatives On Christmas Eve Bowl.

The amenities of the new Yankee Stadium were finally out for display yesterday, and perhaps nothing summed up the You Can’t Afford A Gaddamned Thing In This Place more than the $9 “Retro Beer” cooler, featuring 24 oz. Tall Boys of Pabst Blue Ribbon Horse Tinkle. Seriously? For nine bucks, they’d better send some Indonesian kid to my seat and pour it into my damn mouth. The beer, pervert. Pour the beer.

New Stadium Insider caught wind of this yesterday, but it’s still mind-blowing. Some people don’t understand that one of the drawbacks of having expensive beer is that it creates incentive for patrons to smuggle drinks of their own choosing into the stadium. And if 10 bucks can barely get you a can of PBR, it’s reasonable to believe that the new Yankee Stadium will see an uptick in smuggling compared to the old.

More on the Yanks’ new digs after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »