SO IT'S A TIE - TIE BALL GAME.. Let's just end it that way. Let's all go home and rethink this game we all love so well. As I sit home on medical leave I have had the ability to re watch the Ken Burns Baseball; nine volume series and been able to really meditate on the game I was born and raised on. In 1959: In Denver it was the Triple A Denver Bears - the last stop to the New York Yankees. My senior year in high school was every night with Tony Kubek, Bobby Richardson Frank Howard and Marv Throneberry - the cream of the crop that went up to the majors including Manager Ralph Houk. 1964: Then college and a marriage into a family of season ticket holders I moved on to the LA Dodgers and the era of Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Maury Wills, Junior Gilliam and yes I saw Willie Mays a few times in those old Giant-Dodgre fiascoes. I left California 35 years ago and said I'd never return because being a star was not in my future goals. And that's what this entertainment business has done to us - the consumer, the patron, the customer. We buy the tickets, we pay, pay, pay to see the stars. Is this how you want to spend your hard earned dollars?
By the time I got here to Minneapolis the Millers were gone, the Twins were just the hometown baseball team and I had taken on lots of other things besides watching the box scores of baseball everyday. And I have learned the names of Harmon Killibrew, Rod Carew and others that I have now since met through Park Board activities together. And so today as we all discuss the Stadium ( and where it should be located), and what baseball means to Minneapolis here's my two cents worth. I have put up with a lot these last 60 years of baseball in America. From seeing a perfect pitched ballgame to homerun hitters that made us all yell and scream it has been a ride to Pete Rose's gambling scandal and Kirby Puckett's gross "fall" from the ranks by another temper/thumper. And for the moment I am tired of the ride so I think I am going to take the score of the All Star Game as my ode to baseball for now. IT IS A TIE! IT IS A TIE! This is like some other things in life - You can't live with them and You can't live without them. So I will now move on to figure out what we should really do about our financial woes in Minneapolis and on the Park Board. Any of that baseball money rolling around - will there be any be left after all the bankruptcies and accounting messes are straightened out?. How are they going to pay off all those young ballplayers contracts? Bye - Bye. It's a TIE! After a summer break maybe we'll come up with a different way to still play our old favorite game - baseball and mean while let's work on deciding other extremely important issues and problems facing Minneapolis right now. Annie Young East Phillips _______________________________________ 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
