[antiRepublicrat]

Wow...good for the mayor, standing up for the taxpayers.

OTOH, do you think his decision would have been different had it been a major league football or baseball team?

[Utahrd]

A lot of people here would not go to an NFL game on Sundays. Heck, there's a guy who turned down millions just to play on Sundays. (Eli Herring, I think)

Weird factoid: Peter Coroon is Howard Dean's cousin.

[JRios1968]

...do you think his decision would have been different had it been a major league football or baseball team?

Which one would provide the city a larger return of investment? A stadium that regularly gets 40, 50 or even 100,000 souls on the stands...or one that might get 20,000 (and even that is stretching it...)?