KK wrong about success of ASG

[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

It's fifteen miles or twenty plus minutes with traffic, plus you then have to deal with figuring out where to eat, paying for parking, and all that shit. Suddenly, it's not worth the hassle if you really only want to catch 90 minutes of the game or so.

In Kansas City, people pop into a bar for a few drinks after work. In cities with downtown stadiums, they hit the Rockies game for a couple of drinks after work.

Usually when I hear this argument, its from some Johnson County resident who didn't pay a goddamn dime to renovate the stadium anyway.

Jackson County built it.
Jackson County renovated it.
It sits in the middle of Jackson County.
Where the people who PAID for the damn thing live.

I could care less if your drive from Olathe is inconvenient.

The only thing a JoCo will pay for is a gated community. And guess what? Most of you aren't welcome there, unless you're coming out to clean the house, cut the grass or clean the pool.

Oh, and one other thing.

The Sprint Center was built next to the P&L with the promise that we would get the NBA or NHL. Guess what? We got neither. Even if we did build a downtown baseball stadium, as long as the Glass Family own the team, we won't have a baseball team either. So instead of drawing 15,000 a night in August and September at the HST Sports complex, you'll be drawing 10,000 a night downtown. Plus Jackson County taxpayers are going to be hard pressed to ever build anything again for David Glass based on his cheap ass track record. So good luck passing a bond issue, because downtown is in KCMO, Jackson County.

Maybe Wyandotte County would build one out by Sporting's Park, but I really doubt that. They already have the TBones, and they occasionally win!

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Usually when I hear this argument, its from some Johnson County resident who didn't pay a goddamn dime to renovate the stadium anyway.

Jackson County built it.
Jackson County renovated it.
It sits in the middle of Jackson County.
Where the people who PAID for the damn thing live.

I could care less if your drive from Olathe is inconvenient.

The only thing a JoCo will pay for is a gated community. And guess what? Most of you aren't welcome there, unless you're coming out to clean the house, cut the grass or clean the pool.

Enjoy paying out the ass for a stadium in Raytown so that a billionaire in Arkansas can get even wealthier, then.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Enjoy paying out the ass for a stadium in Raytown so that a billionaire in Arkansas can get even wealthier, then.

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[gblowfish]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Enjoy paying out the ass for a stadium in Raytown so that a billionaire in Arkansas can get even wealthier, then.

I already pay out the ass so a billionaire from Texas gets wealthier. His name is Clark Hunt.

So that's not a big deal in KC.

No doubt Glass sucks. The Royals will be the Wal-Mart of baseball as long as he owns the team. Until he croaks, or sells it, we're stuck with it. Might as well just let Kauffman be Kauffman. It's got plenty of bars to drink your baseball blues away.

And the sports complex is in KCMO, not Raytown. You're severely geographically challenged.