Ok. So making access to the stadium quicker is a fan benefit. Fixing and adding bathrooms is a fan benefit. Building a new concession building in order to provide better food is a fan benefit. Seat time should be the most important thing to a fan. Getting to see the game that they are paying to see, Not standing in excessive beer, food and piss lines all while missing the game! Speed everything up.
So to counterpoint, I do not think this is the dumbest upgrade of a stadium of all time. Outside of agreeing with you that this money would be far better served going to a new stadium. With the ownership situation as it is, a new stadium? Not happening. So actually I could argue that spending 135 million on an obsolete stadium that extends it's life by at least ten years is in todays world a pretty fair deal. Cheapest ten years for a stadium in the country I bet!
We have to play in this league. Much like owning A McDonalds franchise you have to do upgrades that you may not like but it is part of playing in that league.
This is smart in that it also allows the proper process to occur should there be a new stadium eventually. It will be designed and planned out properly at a sustainable cost. In my grand scheme it will cost some serious money, and time to demolish all the Perry street projects and build the infrastructure for the new stadium there. :-)
My shortcut is building it across Abbott Rd and then tearing down the Ralph.
In the new stadium :-)