[Billthedrill]

The author is correct about Wrigley and Fenway being shrines that baseball pilgrims the country over humbly flock to. I'd have made the pilgrimage to old Yankee Stadium as well. The new one, not so much, and in any case I don't feel like taking out a second mortgage to watch a ballgame.

But it actually is a sound plan to build a high-tech wonder and wait for the enhanced revenue to purchase high-quality players. As a loyal Seattle fan I can state that that policy has given us every World Series the Mariners have ever won. Which would be one fewer than the Cubs. (Sob!)

[Lurker]

Mrs L and I love going to the minor league games here locally. A lawn seat is $6.00. Parking is $5.00, and you arent talking your life in your hands walking 20 blocks through the ghetto to get there. A cold beer is $4.00 and a nice charcoal grilled 1/2 pound burger is $4.50.

The team we patronize is the most profitable one in the minor leagues. There is a lesson for Mr. Ricketts in there somewhere.

[BluesDuke]

. . .it actually is a sound plan to build a high-tech wonder and wait for the enhanced revenue to purchase high-quality players. As a loyal Seattle fan I can state that that policy has given us every World Series the Mariners have ever won. Which would be one fewer than the Cubs. (Sob!)

I must have missed the World Series the Mariners actually did win.

(*FYI---This is from early American history, of course, but the Cubs actually have won two World Series. Back-to-back, even. That, of course, was during the Roosevelt Administration----Theodore's, that is . . .)