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Mets owner Steve Cohen unveils $8B casino plan in new ‘Metropolitan Park’
NY Post ^ | 11/07/2023 | Carl Campanile and Josh Kosman

Posted on 11/07/2023 11:07:55 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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1 posted on 11/07/2023 11:07:55 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Illegals will love it.


2 posted on 11/07/2023 11:10:00 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Remember when MLB banned Willie Mays for associating with a legalized casino?


3 posted on 11/07/2023 11:13:05 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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8 Billion in NYC, isnt that about 24 hotel rooms and 6500 square feet of casino floor? The show is a homeless guy and a eggplant. Dont worry the rooms are so nice because the bathroom door and the room door cannot hit, the bathroom door was torn off last week.


4 posted on 11/07/2023 11:16:53 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If I had 200 I would go into the casino instead of the baseball game. Chicago is already a crime shithole. Casinos have private guards. Been in a lot of casinos (primarily to eat) and never felt unsafe.


5 posted on 11/07/2023 11:29:49 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is this some sort of tax write off? Anyone with 1/2 a functioning brain should know better than to do this in that crime infested hole!


6 posted on 11/07/2023 11:31:48 AM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: dfwgator

Are they gonna let all time hits leader Pete Rose into the Hall Of Fame before he dies? As sports goes all in with gambling and incessant commercials for it, Rose’s punishment seems hypocritical and lacking in mercy and forgiveness.


7 posted on 11/07/2023 11:38:46 AM PST by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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Are they gonna let all time hits leader Pete Rose into the Hall Of Fame before he dies? As sports goes all in with gambling and incessant commercials for it, Rose’s punishment seems hypocritical and lacking in mercy and forgiveness.

Agree. And I say that as someone who felt for years he shouldn't be in. Now, why not?

8 posted on 11/07/2023 11:40:19 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

So will the prostitutes on Roosevelt Avenue.

I’m a Mets STH and this is actually not a bad idea. for half a century across the street from the stadium (Shea and Citifield) were rundown shops where you could get your flat tires fixed, brakes replaced, etc. It was a real craphole.

Granted i won’t go to these places- i eat at a terrific Irish bar in Woodside Queens that has a hat hanging which says “MAKE WOODSIDE GREAT AGAIN!!” then take the 7 train to and from the game.


9 posted on 11/07/2023 11:41:13 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, the guy isn’t rich enough he has to suck the paychecks out of poor and working class people one one-armed bandit at a time.


10 posted on 11/07/2023 11:41:23 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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then take the 7 train to and from the game.

Don't tell John Rocker.

11 posted on 11/07/2023 11:42:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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And the 7 train was better back in those days!!!


12 posted on 11/07/2023 11:45:15 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NYC Greenspace = Hobo Haven.


13 posted on 11/07/2023 11:48:39 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: God luvs America

This past year they had the Westminster Kennel Club show at Arthur Ash stadium/US Open complex in Queens. My wife asked me IF I wanted to go. I said ABSOLUTELY NO. No F’N way. It is in a SH#T Hole area.

The two previous years they had it up in Terrytown at the Lyndhurst Estate. It was a great place to go. There were several nice hotels and good restaurants. A couple right on the river.


14 posted on 11/07/2023 12:07:09 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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Hey, the Mets do have the highest payroll in MLB. Did they even make the playoffs?


15 posted on 11/07/2023 12:08:16 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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They destroyed the WKC show moving it away from Madison Square Garden- it was a great event that had a great atmosphere because of the crowd. I was there at the Garden in February, 2020, when Daniel the Golden Retriever won the crowd.

1- i live 20 minutes from Tarrytown. It was a joke having it there- the general public could not get in to watch best in show.

2- you are clueless about the Arthur Ashe/Citifield area. Its off the beaten path and there is nothing around but highways, parking lots, the subway as well as the stadiums. No one- vagrants, homeless, illegals, criminals, etc, hang out there. There is nothing there except on game day!!!

Westminister’s decision to keep it at Arthur Ashe in May was a disaster. The Garden used to sell out for the show- or close to a sellout. Arthur Ashe was what- 50% full last year for the show with no atmosphere???


16 posted on 11/07/2023 12:23:38 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our beautiful country has become a big casino.


17 posted on 11/07/2023 12:27:16 PM PST by yelostar (Spook codes 33 and 13. See them often in headlines and news stories. )
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To: MDLION

Rose’s punishment was based on his gambling on games in which he was a participant, in which he had a duty to compete. These were games in which he was a manager of the Reds.

He wasn’t banned for placing bets on games he was not involved in. If he had been banned for placing bets on games he was not a participant in, then it would be very hypocritical to keep him out of the Hall of Fame, considering how pro sports are embracing gambling.


18 posted on 11/07/2023 12:31:50 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Why not? Sportsball is just one venue for gambling.

Might as well consolidate them into the same facilities.

19 posted on 11/07/2023 12:49:25 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: God luvs America

then take the 7 train to and from the game.


Yep….we’ve done that, to many a Mets game, when family was living in Queens…further East, of you.


20 posted on 11/07/2023 12:55:11 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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