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Pinstriped Purgatory: Weak connection to the community, Pizza Rats promotion doomed Staten Island Yankees Updated Feb 07, 2021; Posted Feb 07, 2021 The Staten Island Yankees played as the Pizza Rats in a handful of games last season. (Staten Island Yankees) Facebook Share By Peter Kropf | Special to the Advance (EDITOR’S NOTE: The author is a published sports journalist who gives readers a first-hand account of the Staten Island Yankees’ rocky relationship with the New York Yankees, its unprecedented lawsuit against MLB and the Yankees, attendance and financial struggles, internal strife within the franchise, and deteriorating ballpark conditions. Human-interest angles, such as COVID’s impact on team personnel, are examined as well.) ....
Yankees, MLB ask judge to throw out lawsuit filed by Staten Island Yankees, report says Updated Feb 01, 2021; Posted Feb 01, 2021 The Staten Island Yankees, who called Richmond County Bank Ballpark home, are suing the New York Yankees and Major League Baseball.AP Facebook Share The Staten Island Yankees aren’t going down without a fight. But it could be a very quick battle. Sportico reports “Major League Baseball and the New York Yankees have filed a motion to dismiss the Staten Island Yankees’ lawsuit. MLB and the Bronx Bombers maintain that the minor league club, which last month sued them and Steinbrenner family trustee Charles Norman Stallings for $20 million, has offered ‘a grab bag of purported claims’ that are devoid of merit.” ....
Clifford Michel/THE CITY The base parts for the New York Wheel, an unfinished $650 million waterfront Ferris wheel once touted as Staten Island’s answer to the London Eye, have sat on prime public land untouched since 2017. Staten Island’s current elected officials have stuck by the project, seen as the linchpin of the so-called North Shore Renaissance around the St. George Ferry Terminal, even after its initial developer declared the wheel dead two years ago. But now several candidates running for City Council and borough president are breaking ranks and pledging to push City Hall and the city Economic Development Corporation to abandon the project, once slated to rise 630 feet with sweeping views. ....