Clark asked for reasons why no Twins talk lately. I think people fall into 3 groups:
1. Don't care and never did. 2. Care and hate subsidy and don't need to say it again. 3. Care and love baseball but resigned that in this day and age - not to mention this state and culture - a taxpayer-financed ballpark won't happen. This group is split between folks who think subsidy should happen but won't, and those who think subsidy shouldn't happen despite their love for baseball. Me - father of a four-year-old with an Eric Milton poster on his wall, attendee of 8 Twins games last year in which I bought all my tickets - I'm resigned that we can't possibly come up with enough dough to make baseball work here. I love the game, pretty much hate the subsidy (though not a nothing-no-way guy), and have rationalized the coming loss by saying maybe we need to take 5-10 years off from major-league baseball while it is so screwed up. If they fix the finances, it's one roadblock removed from a future stadium discussion. ANYWAY...perhaps to facilitate grieving, I'd like to revive a discussion the list had some time ago. Assuming the Twins leave, and assuming some form of minor-league ball comes to the suddenly open Twin Cities market (Northern League ala the St. Paul Saints or Triple-A), where could we locate a stadium or build a cozy, cheap minor-league park? There are a couple of existing sites that have potential, much as the Saints found Midway Stadium: Parade Stadium Siebert Field A minimal investment in either would have some public spin-off benefits - either a better top-end park for local players (Parade) or a better place to watch the U (Siebert). But I really want to identify parcels in Minneapolis where a) a stadium would fit b) a stadium would be the best use and c) where there could be the most spin-off benefits. Any part of town is fine - in fact, the broader the geographic scope the better. If you hate subsidy for any level of ballpark, just go with the concept and pretend we'll find a sugar parent. The Dome, of course, is bad enough when the players are good and simply not an option for minor-league entertainment. Thanks, David Brauer Kingfield - Ward 10 Member, Cristian Guzman fan club _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
