[SamAdams76]

I'm sick of taxpayer money being used to finance stadiums while owners of these teams shell out mega-millions to their players and continue to jack up ticket prices so that only corporations can afford the good seats that are then doled out to clients. Actually I have no problem with what professional sports teams pay their players and how much they charge for seats, provided that they don't hit the taxpayers up for money to build the stadiums.

It's time that professional sports got taken off of public-assistance.

As for Guiliani, he also made a stupid statement yesterday, attacking Boston and San Diego as being "lesser" cities than New York. What was the purpose of that?

[BluesDuke]

Actually I have no problem with what professional sports teams pay their players and how much they charge for seats, provided that they don't hit the taxpayers up for money to build the stadiums.

The real salary steroid shot: arbitration. That's been the real reason why the salaries went to infinity and beyond over the years. The irony: At the birth of free agency, arbitration was more the owners' idea than the players'. They had no clue that the concept would blow up in their faces in short enough order.


As for Guiliani, he also made a stupid statement yesterday, attacking Boston and San Diego as being "lesser" cities than New York. What was the purpose of that?

I can't figure on San Diego, which is actually a nice seaside city (the piers and docks are lovely waterfronts), but on Boston, well, maybe he's just looking to stick it to the Red Sox, especially after one of their new ownership group said the other day that, so far as he was concerned, the "Curse of the Bambino" was a spell they intend to break. Giuliani, of course, thinks every city is lesser than New York. But you'd expect a mayor of any major city to think thus of other cities compared to his own. And you'd be hard pressed to argue each city's particular uniquenesses, good and bad...