As I understand it, those 15 jobs are for caterers for that luxury box.

Seriously, there's a great book published by the "Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts," entitled "Baseball Between the Numbers." Their wrap-up on the chapter about the economic benefits of publicly-funded new stadiums reads, "The forms of these subsidies may change, but new stadiums are still mostly about one thing: boosting team profits by separating taxpayers from their money."

The folks at Baseball Prospectus are following the lead created by Bill James, the generally recognized original baseball numbers genius (and the person probably most responsible for the Red Sox' two World Series wins in recent years *grumble grumble*). This book takes an in-depth look at baseball statistics and all numbers baseball. Their conclusions are often startling (for instance, Derek Jeter is only an average-fielding shortstop, and steroids generally have minimal impact on performance at the top level), but always backed by solid facts and statistics. In this case, however, their conclusion regarding new baseball stadiums is not startling or even new; it was part of the discussion back when then-Mayor Giuliani was pushing for a new stadium on the west side of Manhattan.