Comments on: New Cheney Stadium will have bells, whistles and a whole lot of TVs

By: comment_tayter

comment_tayter — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:29:36 +0000

Why is it a foregone conclusion that this is going to happen?

Wasn’t Cheney Stadium just the recipient of a big work-over, just completed a couple summers ago, and including an expensive scoreboard?

Furthermore, are we are expected to buy the argument from the civic cheerleaders and the team owners – well-known to be fickle and greedy – that they are going to honor their end of a _thirty_ (!) year lease? Thirty years is like four lifetimes!

When it comes down to enforcing the lease, who gets to pay, albeit indirectly, to go to court for who know’s how long? The taxpayer’s, that’s who….

So it’s a done deal, eh? We are going to spend a bunch of money (again!) fixing something that doesn’t need to be fixed, and that benefits a bunch of budding major league ball-players and owners, (again!) so that some guy – hardly “Joe Average” – can sit behind a window looking into the dugout, while many of us are relegated out to the distant land once known at “Cheapskate Hill?” And all for an undoubtedly higher ticket price.

Color me unimpressed.

Somehow, I just don’t see the benefit, regardless of how much I may like baseball.

By: papasan

papasan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:29:14 +0000

Wow, just what I’ve always wanted. Go to one of the best ballparks in the Pac. NW so I can sit back and watch the game on a flat screen TV.
Next Spring, I’ll just dump my grass catcher in the living room, slow cook some hot dogs and watch the game on the tube. I’ve beat the parking lot madness, saved a small fortune and yet, I’ve still got the smell of the freshly mown grass, hot dogs and beer, just like Cheney. If I could get the neighbors to yell out “Kill the Umpire”, once in a while, I couldn’t tell the difference.

By: tree_guy

tree_guy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:17:11 +0000

Next week the city of Tacoma will sell $50M worth of bonds to pay for Cheney and other pork projects. If you like taxes…you’ll love Tacoma.

By: Kevindot1

Kevindot1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:12:10 +0000

There was nothing cute about it, CP. In fact, your initial reply would be more acuratetly described as cute, not jimkingjr’s.

I can’t wait to see the finished Cheney Stadium!! It will be fun to watch the progress during next season.

By: jimkingjr

jimkingjr — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:46:15 +0000

ClownPosse has obviously never rented a suite- nothing is “complimentary”, it is all built into the cost. But why let facts get in the way?

By: ClownPosse

ClownPosse — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:17:19 +0000

Bells and whistles, in addition to $10.00 beers and $9.00 hot dogs, for the working class !

To the Suite owners all will be “complimentary” !