You’d be surprised (or not) at the number of people who are passionate about those ideals.
I was a passionate Yankees fan at one time. Came to Houston in 80’s. Didn’t like how steinbreiner spent so much. Unfair competition IMHO. Different times. Still like mickey and Munson.
Kansaa City?
To be clear, I applaud those ideals and especially those that stand by them.
I also just don’t trust governments, big or small, to actually use that money for any good purpose.
No way to even begin to answer this but Oakland has “saved” all this money over the years by not spending it on sports stadiums but the city keeps getting, by most accounts, worse. Would be interested in what happens to the money, supposedly already raised, for the Howard Terminal project.
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There’s a long list ways to mismanage money as a municipality that are more forgivable than tossing it to a billionaire.
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This leads me to wonder: what cities do we ever hear are getting better?
More cities should not cave to the demands of billionaire owners regarding public funding for new stadiums. If it was one new stadium every 50-60 years, that’s one thing. But, in many cases, these owners cry that their latest state-of-the-art buildings are outdated after only 20-25 years, and they expect the same city to pony up hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars to build them a new one.
Also, I highly doubt a new stadium would have made John Fisher spend an appropriate amount on the A’s payroll. Since the early 2000’s, the A’s have done a great job turning off their fans by trading away any good players they develop the moment they reach arbitration.
The Pirates got a new stadium in 2001. Did it cause Bob Nutting to change his penny-pinching ways in regards to the Pirates’ payroll? No.
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Most cities when compared to Oakland.
Washington DC. A real study on great civic and fiscal management coming out of (federal) receivership.
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I haven’t been, but I hear Detroit has really resurged. It’s not nearly the city it was 20 years ago. Don’t know how true that is.
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Fort Worth
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Great example. The District is certainly not without its problems (e.g. gentrification, homelessness, underperforming public schools), but it is so much better than when I moved out there in the summer of ‘95 for my freshman year at AU. Don’t even recognize parts of the city now.
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I may be biased because I have lived in and around Fort Worth for the last 12 years, but Fort Worth is awesome and has only gotten better. Very few run down parts, downtown has grown, though I don’t spend as much time there as I did in my 20s. It’s just a great place to live, I can’t see myself leaving the area.
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Homelessness has gotten bad across the US. Houston has it’s fair share. There are numerous reasons. Personally I wonder how much not having to pay rent during pandemic as well as uncontrolled immigration. Drugs have always been a major problem also. I was shocked one day to see all the homeless fountain view and westheimer. Fairly decent area, and I think the city moved the people camping their.
Neither of these things are true much less having anything to do with homelessness
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Bruce good fucking grief.
Never said were true. Just my thoughts.
“I’m just asking questions”
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There was a time, about 100 years ago, when Detroit was called The Paris of The West.
Money was rolling in at the time. As I told some Californians at rodeo. God created a beautiful state. IMHO people didn’t keep it that way.