They talk about economic development as being tied in with building stadiums.
This is such an old tiresome playbook.. Teams demand a new stadium, and threaten to move if they don’t get their new stadium.
Teams have moved sometimes when they don’t get their stadium.
But if a team moves out of town ,,life still goes on.
Professional sports are nice to have in a community, but the key question here is should public tax payer money subsidize those teams.
**Teams have moved sometimes when they don’t get their stadium.**
Bob Lurie did it. (SF Giants). Tried to move the team to Florida. Businessmen got together and forced him out. He got what he deserved.
What’s sad is he was our hero when the team was going to be moved to Toronto. He stepped up and saved it for SF. He went from hero to goat.
The owners are in it for the money. Just look at all the injuries and now we’ll soon get an 18 game schedule. They’re like democrats in it for the power. Combine the 2 and we will always get screwed. The problem may be us loving sports too much. I gave on basketball 20 years ago. It looked too easy. Now they ‘carry’ the ball and don’t dribble.
Baseball. The universal DH did it for me. Purists won’t stand for it. The game still gives us the individual matchup between hitter and pitcher so I guess the essence of the game is still there-not for me.