Comments on: Spring Training In Tucson—Could It Have Been Saved?

By: Mike Brewer

Mike Brewer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:18:53 +0000

We worship at the altar of Sports Socialism. They hypocrisy is abundant.

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By: fortbuckley

fortbuckley — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:00:51 +0000

I do think the legislature should give us the chance to vote on a sales tax, or whatever it is we’d need to keep spring training here. If we vote it up or down, OK. But, we should get the chance to vote.

I do wonder if the Maricopa County faction in the state legislature is slowballing the bill, in hopes that it won’t pass until it’s too late. What good is passing a sales tax for a new stadium if the teams are already gone by the time we have the money? Something tells me Team Maricopa is thinking the same thing.

By: fortbuckley

fortbuckley — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:55:06 +0000

I fear that I’ll cause Hell to freeze over as I type the rest of this sentence: I agree with Leftfield.

I might feel a bit differently, and support a bond measure for a new stadium, IF we didn’t already have TEP. TEP is a perfectly good ballpark for major league spring training. I’m even open to making some modifications to suit today’s MLB ballplayer. Like, say, RADC MAXIMUS’ Steroid Vend-o-Matic…

But I’m not ready to pay for a new stadium in Marana, just so the ballplayers can be 15 miles closer to Phoenix. Does anyone really think that, if we could move TEP via flatbed to Marana, the D’backs and Rockies would squeal in delight? No, I suspect they’d find something else they didn’t like about being in Tucson.

By: leftfield

leftfield — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:43:46 +0000

Yes, sports teams are private enterprises and the public should only have to support them by choice in the form of buying tickets. We’re being held hostage – let them build their own stadiums and if the product is good enough, people will support it.

By: azaggieone

azaggieone — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:30:26 +0000

No I don’t think it could have been saved. The great state or Maricopa is just too much to compete with. Frankly efforts to get it back is a slap in the face of Tucsonans. I hope the stadium tax never makes it out of the legislature because I am sure the idiot voters in this city would probably pass it once it was put to a vote. Guess what they build a new stadium and in ten years(about the time it took the sidewinders and all the other teams to leave) the next team will leave for bigger and better. I tend to be against government involvement in our lives and financing sports teams is one that really hacks me off. Get out of the sports business for good.

By: Jonathan DuHamel

Jonathan DuHamel — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:06:20 +0000

If MLB was such a good deal, why wasn’t it privately funded rather than subsidized by taxpayers?

By: RADC MAXIMUS

RADC MAXIMUS — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:43:04 +0000

Maybe a steroids vending machine would keep em’ here. Might help with budget shortfall too…