Craig Cox wrote: >>>>One question re: Twins stadium fever: Why is the Star Tribune so >desperately, obsessive about this issue? Yesterday's editorial about not >giving Selig and Pohlad what they want (a contracted team) by ponying up >for
While I think the Strib's arguments haven't been nearly as eloquent as yours, Craig, I gotta say that the larger point--indicating why it's ludicrous to sacrifice the twins, to no real end at all other than maybe to satisfy all the bleeding hearts on this list--has been refreshing. Yesterday's editorial made some excellent and salient points. If the Twins are singled out for contraction, it's valid to ask why, and they've done that pretty well, in spite of their clear conflicts of interest. (As you know, Sports is not strictly speaking news, but entertainment. Which explains why real newspapers like the Times tend to bury it somewhere near the Manhattan Real Estate listings. Then again, in a paper like the Strib, the Sports section is often the only draw in this inreasingly illiterate society, but that's another rant altogether. Lose 60 percent of your annual professional sporting events to cover, and you've gotta start cashing out a few columnists and reporters.) With the Boston Red Sox going up for sale to the tune of half a billion dollars, you really gotta wonder what the hell is going on here. And if you think Fenway is the Elysian Field of baseball, you haven;t checked out the Boston Globe lately. They've been trying to build a new one there for decades... but in their case history (and a passion for it) stands in the way, not a self-righteous community. Hans Eisenbeis Kingfield In a message dated 11/30/01 12:35:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >a stadium was downright embarrassing. Steve Berg, who I have to assume >wrote >the editorial, has continuously failed to convince the majority of readers >(even those of us who don't want the Twins to leave) that a ballpark is >a >good investment (it clearly isn't if Selig's statement yesterday about >25 >teams losing money last year--in spite of all the new stadium >construction--is true), so now he's trying to tell us that we WIN if we >build a stadium because that's what Selig and Pohlad DON'T want???? > >And then today, the Strib throws Jerry Bell on the front page with a >headline that says we'll save the Twins if we build a new stadium!!! Four >grafs down in the story we learn that Bell really doesn't have anything >concrete on which to base such an opinion. > >What gives??? What does the Strib have to gain from a new ballpark? Why >are >they so obsessed with promoting this obviously bad idea??? > >Craig Cox >Hiawatha > >_______________________________________ >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 > > >----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- >Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Received: from rly-yg05.mx.aol.com (rly-yg05.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.5]) >by air-yg03.mail.aol.com (v82.22) with ESMTP id MAILINYG310-1130123511; >Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:35:11 -0500 >Received: from mapnp.mnforum.org (mapnp.geeks.org [209.98.1.50]) by rly-yg05.mx.aol.com >(v82.22) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYG53-1130123440; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:34:40 >-0500 >Received: from mapnp.Geeks.ORG (localhost.Geeks.ORG [127.0.0.1]) > by mapnp.mnforum.org (Postfix) with ESMTP > id 42ECA6C826; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:34:21 -0600 (CST) >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Received: from rachmaninov.omnidelta.com (mail.omnidelta.com [12.27.45.235]) > by mapnp.mnforum.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EACBF6C813 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:33:57 -0600 (CST) >Received: from [206.144.137.199] (utne-dsl.completeis.com [206.10.149.251]) >by rachmaninov.omnidelta.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail >Service Version 5.5.2653.13) > id XG8XB0YZ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:32:00 -0600 >User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >Subject: Re: [Mpls] R.T. and a Twins Stadium >From: Craig Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Mpls. 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