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RE: Criminal Corporate Bastards
December 15, 2016 at 1:45 am
If the taxpayers got to vote on this shit maybe it wouldn't be so bad but that's not the way it works. And when it doesn't work that way then we are left to wonder which city or league officials have been bribed.... and bribes can come in many forms.
This bullshit that entire cities are somehow embodied in pro sports teams is absurd. These fucking owners only care about sucking every dollar they can get out of the public.
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RE: Criminal Corporate Bastards
December 15, 2016 at 2:01 am
Some cities, maybe. Green Bay, Pittsburgh, New York, Dallas--these cities are overwhelmingly happy with their major sports franchises.
It turns out shit when a team has a great couple of years like SF , builds a stadium, and then proceeds to go right back to sucking ass.
Meanwhile, Dallas, New York, Minnesota, and Indianapolis all have new stadia and you don't hear a lot of complaints.
My team is as embroiled in Pittsburgh as you can be. The Rooneys have been in Pittsburgh for over a hundred years and are as much a fabric of that city as anyone could be.
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RE: Criminal Corporate Bastards
December 17, 2016 at 7:15 pm
(December 14, 2016 at 11:47 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: That hypocritical piece of Shit moved the colts out of Baltimore,
No qualifier necessary-- Robert Irsay was widely regarded as a piece of shit, even without the hypocrisy.
Now, I am tempted to correct you by pointing out that Jim Irsay is not his father. But as I understand it, in at least a few ways he is very much his father.
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RE: Criminal Corporate Bastards
December 17, 2016 at 7:55 pm
(December 15, 2016 at 2:01 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Some cities, maybe. Green Bay, Pittsburgh, New York, Dallas--these cities are overwhelmingly happy with their major sports franchises.
It turns out shit when a team has a great couple of years like SF , builds a stadium, and then proceeds to go right back to sucking ass.
Meanwhile, Dallas, New York, Minnesota, and Indianapolis all have new stadia and you don't hear a lot of complaints.
My team is as embroiled in Pittsburgh as you can be. The Rooneys have been in Pittsburgh for over a hundred years and are as much a fabric of that city as anyone could be.
There were protests against both Yankee Stadium and Citi Field because of the bullshit involved in the financing. The protests were quashed by the cops and ignored by the media and the rich whores who made a killing off it.
Widely proclaimed that the Mets and Yanks were paying for their own stadiums themselves the fact is that they are paying off tax free municipal bonds and getting off on the real estate taxes for the property the stadiums sit on and city sales taxes. In addition, the taxpayers got stuck paying for infrastructure improvements....which included indoor parking garages so rich fucks wouldn't have to get their cars wet.
These things are a tad more complicated than one would get listening to the press releases.
By the way, the politicians trumpeted that Yankee Stadium would create 6,500 construction jobs ( over the 4 year process ) and 1,000 "permanent" jobs.... doing such things as selling hot dogs 82 days out of the year.
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RE: Criminal Corporate Bastards
December 17, 2016 at 8:35 pm
(December 17, 2016 at 7:15 pm)Tonus Wrote: (December 14, 2016 at 11:47 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: That hypocritical piece of Shit moved the colts out of Baltimore,
No qualifier necessary-- Robert Irsay was widely regarded as a piece of shit, even without the hypocrisy.
Now, I am tempted to correct you by pointing out that Jim Irsay is not his father. But as I understand it, in at least a few ways he is very much his father.
Yes, well I'm always gonna be jaded because of what the owner did. I'm from Baltimore and remember it all too well, like I said.
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