How Feminists Sabotaged Baseball In My Town

The city of Birmingham, Alabama has been a struggling, aging city, known worldwide for the racism and violence of the 1960s, it has faced a declining population for the past 5 decades.  In recent years, following the national trend of re-urbanization and gentrification, there was renewed interested in the downtown area.  One of the biggest announcements was that the minor league baseball team would be relocating from a white suburb to the downtown area.

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Note how the ballfield was positioned facing North (downtown)

In 2012, a new baseball stadium for the minor league Double-A class Birmingham Barons was announced.  The site chosen was adjacent to another large gentrification project, Railroad Park, a 19 acre public park with lake which opened on an abandoned site in 2010.  City planners hoped to spur development of this largely abandoned area of the city, and to build on the positive momentum of the park with an adjacent ballfield.

America’s National Pastime

American ballparks are perhaps the most stereotypically American thing there is, besides war and obesity.  And the great ballparks of the nation are widely recognized for their architecture, style, and integration into their respective cities.  Indeed, the motivation for moving the Baron’s ballpark into downtown Birmingham was to give it an urban feel, and associate the team with the city of Birmingham visually, as opposed to an out-of-town hobby for the suburbanites to attend.

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The Baseball Field was strategically placed with a view of the city skyline, early pictures show

With this in mind, the location, design, and visual appearance of the park were all important elements of its planning.  The city’s lodging tax was more than doubled, to finance taxpayer funding of the facility.  The new stadium, designed to seat 8,500, was designed by HKS Architecture of Dallas, Texas, a professional international design firm with a specialty in designing sports stadiums.  The firm, founded in 1939, established a sports division in 1992, led by Bryan Trubey, a well known sports architect, who designed three NFL stadiums, including the elaborate and expensive Cowboys Stadium which hosted the 2010 Super Bowl, and is currently working with Mark Cuban to design a new Dallas Mavericks facility.

Site ready for construction, with city skyline in background

Site ready for construction, with city skyline in background

The hiring of an outside, credentialed sports professional was seen as an exciting and encouraging, if somewhat surprising move for the city of Birmingham, which is ranked #154 among minor league sports markets, and anticipation for the planned stadium was palpable.  The location of the park, just below the railroad tracks which demarcate the city’s north downtown area and south side, was ideal.  The southern side was home to most of the entertainment venues and housing facilities, and the source of most of the fanbase, while the north side anchored the downtown cityscape as a background upon which to set the new, urban ball field.

Not So Fast

Was someone here trying to have FUN?

Was someone here trying to have some FUN?

Before construction began, the project passed before a design approval committee, made up of volunteers who enjoy the authority of telling people what they can do with their own private property.  This group of busybodies vetoed the design, insisting that the stadium should instead face a hospital and multi story parking deck, seating and signage would need to be redesigned, and the view of downtown was not acceptable, because, according to the group, “the invisible architectural boundaries” of the park must be respected.  Yes, that’s right, the thought of thousands of baseball fans eye-raping the park as they enjoyed the urban setting was too much, and the plan was vetoed.

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One could argue that the entire rationale for moving the park downtown, which was to maintain an urban feel and look, had just been removed from the entire project.  But the $60 million plan was already underway.  The only solution, to appease this group, was to rotate the park to face the concrete parking deck, overruling the opinion of the team of men who were so passionate about sports that they dedicated their lives to studying, designing, and creating the most exciting, enjoyable venues in which to enjoy the sport.  Men who had played baseball as children, traveled throughout the world studying and observing sports facilities, talking with fans, players, and owners, and who work day in and out, year after year, decade after decade, planning and designing sports facilities.  No, this group who was paid big bucks for their professional opinion was vetoed to appease a few small town obstructionist feminists.

Other Silly Changes

80 foot tall lettering is "discreet, low key, and not overwhelming"

80 foot tall lettering is “discreet, low key, and not overwhelming” but viewing the city skyline is rape, because reasons

Besides changing the park’s orientation, the committee ordered additional changes to HKS Architecture’s plan, including rejecting their plan for an LED message board with scrolling phone numbers for ticket sales because “we have a policy against that, and only words, not numbers, can be used.”  To this group of wannabe cat lady construction foremen, the flashy, 18′ tall sign was fine, as long as it didn’t display an Arabic numeral, in which case it immediately would become an eyesore.

In order to preserve any remnant of a view of the city skyline, the upper level premium seating areas along the third baseline had to be completely removed from the plan, limiting the profitable premium space sold for corporate and private party use available to the ballpark operator.

And in the most amusing comment of the whole debacle, Cheryl Morgan, architecture professor at Auburn Urban Studio and Design Review Committee member who vetoed the HKS plan, described the 80 foot tall lettering along the side of the building as “fairly descreet and low key… not overwhelming the building.” lolz.

Famous Ballparks Are Instantly Recognizable

Minnesota Twins

Minnesota Twins

PNCPark Pittsburgh

PNC Park Pittsburgh

Citizens Bank, Philadelphia

Citizens Bank, Philadelphia

Busch Stadium, St Louis

Busch Stadium, St Louis

Petco Park, San Diego

Petco Park, San Diego

Detroit Comerica Park

Detroit Comerica Park

San Francisco Bay

SF Giants Park, San Francisco Bay

Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field

Masculine Planned View from Birmingham Stadium

Masculine Planned View from Birmingham’s Stadium

Actual view "Ain't that better?"

Actual view “Ain’t that better?”

Throughout history, beautiful architecture, art, music, and poetry was created almost exclusively by men.  If a woman is genuinely talented in a certain field, her contributions should be celebrated and encouraged.  But when a know-nothing body of obstructionists intervene and deliberately destroy a man’s beautiful vision, a serious public crime has occurred.  For decades, baseball fans in Alabama will be stuck with an inferior stadium.  Wise men are overruled and their experience and expertise are ignored.  Meanwhile, the fun-destroying feminists can say “mission accomplished” and receive validation that they have done something productive, as they had the final say.  Don’t let this happen in your city.

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110 thoughts on “How Feminists Sabotaged Baseball In My Town”

      1. Fuggin’ true. The whole family could be ecstatic but if mama isn’t happy…well, she’s gonna bring the whole mood right the fuck down. Same for women in general, don’t you think. That’s been my experience, but maybe I live in a cynical bubble. (Okay, so yeah, I do, but still…)

        1. It is true. God I love being single. Today I was telling a married co worker “bad night couldn’t sleep so I put on some clothes and just went for a long walk. Saw a later night wine bar that was totally empty, had a glass of wine and then went home”
          He looked at me like I just told him I had fucked triplets, while on a rollercoaster made of cocaine which was crashing into a giant slot machine which just hit triple 7’s

        2. I thoroughly enjoy firmly telling guys that give lame anecdotes like that as a way to appease women that “That’s not how my life works.” With my girl standing behind me shaking her head in disapproval at the poor bastard.

        3. I know what you mean. Do you find that friends, co-workers, who are married (men), try to rein you in, by saying things like, “When are you going to settle down…” It’s like they want you to get trapped in the same drying cement that they are standing in…fuck that noise. My best buddy is married with four kids. His life was over at 25 (when he got married). He and I used to tear up the world together. We had two different successful businesses prior to the time he got married, one of which we started at age 20 (moving business). This guy was sharp, shrewd, uncontainable. Strongest guy I’d known, until he went simp. He was frightening, his intensity. Did it his way, or no way at all. Fast forward to today – he was complaining to me the other day, because his wife insists that he fold the bath towels in a certain way. Goddamn we’re lucky, eh. I couldn’t do that. Not for one second. As it stands now, if a woman tries to change me or give me shit tests, I bolt first and never ask questions later. I don’t think I’m missing out on “marital bliss”. Hell no.

        4. I couldn’t handle this. One guy I work with tells me his wife wants to know why I don’t settle down. His response: I’ve seen the girls he dates

        5. Haha. My buddy I told you about, I send him cell phone pictures sometimes when I am out and about. Young, hot women, and I’m an old geezer like he is. It makes his head explode. He gets so jealous sometimes he won’t talk to me for six months at a stretch. I can deal with it…his wife is like 170 pounds, 5’3″. Used to be hot. No longer. He has to walk the dog, too, and do chores. I just can’t relate. Makes me sick what he has turned into…but I know it makes him sick, too.

        6. Used to get a lot of it. Still get it occasionally.
          Cue my never ending supply of *ball & chain * replies.
          I’m not against getting married though. The marriage worthy ones do exist I figure.
          Just not attached to that outcome at this point.

        7. Still wondering what the solution is. Marriage ends like crap for a majority these days (divorce (including losing the kids partly or fully) or just misery together).
          But we can’t very well just be single. Then our genes die out and we’ll be alone when we need others the most (in our old age). Not saying people with kids aren’t lonely when they are old. As things are now, strangers will tend to their needs for money and the kids are like a back-up net. Living far away as they often do.

        8. Marriage always ends badly. Either it ends in a bad way early on and you get fucked to death in the process or it is successful and you deal with death. Either way, single rules!

        9. Hahaha….”mommas not happy, no one’s happy”. “Happy wife. Happy life.”
          Translation:”regardless of how you feel, I will hold you hostage to my moods”.
          I love the hateful looks women give me when I say this.

        10. I wouldn’t say always but sadly it’s way too often.
          Being single is no solution though for previously stated reasons.

        11. I would say I’m pretty lucky in that regards. I have two really tight friends that have both been married 10+ years with multiple kids. They are the ONLY two of all the married guys I know that are happy with their situations.
          They don’t “ask the wife” if they can go fishing or shoot pool with Rockfish. They tell the wife they are going fishing g and pool shooting, and check to make sure there isn’t a kids’ function to interfere. (If they have to decline cuz a kid has a soccer or football game, I don’t say nothing cuz i know they would rather do that).
          They love the nekkid picture I send them if chicks I bang. They don’t tell me to settle down. They like to live vicariously through me because they know they couldn’t. While they might like being married to one woman, and could never handle the kind of women I date, they aren’t envious of me. They are happy with what they got, and so therefore don’t feel the need to “shame” me into being like them.
          Of course, it helps that their wives are cool and don’t give me the mother shrew “youre a bad influence in my husband” bullshit . I guess that’s why I’ve been friends with them for almost 30 years.
          Literally every other married dudes I know, look bored and miserable, and when meeting their wives I can understand why.

        12. I don’t know. I think being single is a wonderful solution. But it really depends on the individual.

        13. It can probably work for some, but I’m looking for what works best for the majority of men.

        14. Says the guy who spends his free time poring over ROK comment threads, looking for someone to attack…your happiness is self-evident.

        15. “Still wondering what the solution is. Marriage ends like crap for a majority these days (divorce (including losing the kids partly or fully) or just misery together).”
          Change the marriage/divorce laws to be as biased in favor of men as they are now in favor of women: then kick back and watch the divorce rate slowly go down to 1%.

    1. When you let women get involved in the decision making you are entering a world of pain.

      1. Such as this election. It’s like a Women’s Tabloid right now with ZERO issues being discussed.

      2. And yet we’re about to let a woman become commander in chief. You can bet her cabinet and joint chiefs of staff will be loaded with women. I can hardly wait for the first military showdown with the bad guys. I suspect that the bad guys will be so numerous that they will have to take numbers and get in line.

    2. *Look at me.Look at what we did. Isn’t it beautiful? A tanker’s worth of male tears’ -Da Sisterhood

  1. “How Feminists Sabotaged Baseball in my Town.”
    And then the article doesn’t mention anything about feminism, just talks about how the view sucks at the new Birmingham minor league stadium.

    1. Yeah I noticed that too. Its briefly hinted at a couple of times but there is no elaboration whatsoever.
      But still.. I mean, c’mon. We know whose fault it was anyway, right?
      “I’m from Buenos Aires and I say kill ’em ALL!”

    2. Yeah, I’m not really seeing the connection. A stupid committee, presumably made up of women and men, vetoed a good design. What has this got to do with feminism, or even women in particular, for that matter? Next article: how feminist hurricane Nicole is about to destroy Bermuda!!!!

    3. Women dictating what male spaces will look like and negatively affecting them is bad, whether the women openly identify as feminists or not. This is why men are decision makers and leaders, and women are not.
      This is also a preview of the type of “leadership” we will get with a female president.

  2. Investors should have given them the finger (literally) and built it facing the skyline anyway.

    1. Unfortunately, the average male investor out there is a huge simp. Flash some pussy in his face, and he will gladly shell out the millions. Return on investment be damned.
      How do you think Theranos ever got bankrolled?

      1. Yep, the hags don’t even have to put out, the simps fall over because snowflake. More money than brains or balls apparently.

    2. They are building it via a tax which gives the busy bodies in political positions even more power.

  3. Abso-fucking-lutely, unbelievable stupid. Mind-bogglingly stupid even.
    That’s what one gets with unelected ‘advisory’ planning committees and commissions and such. It’s also found in Home-Owners Associations (HOAs – aka Lawn Nazis) too.

    1. Don’t get me started on Condo Boards aka HOAs aka lawn nazis, balcony nazis, curtain nazis, etc…. The bain of my existence. For the record though, mine’s comprised of 2 men and 1 woman. All equally incompetent.

  4. So a bunch of bitches cancel and change a baseball field…and feminism is at fault?
    Sorry, but that’s a leap of connection I’m not prepared to make.
    There are a lot of dumb people in America. However, when dumb people make dumb decisions (as is allegedly the case here), it isn’t necessarily because of feminism.
    To use the old logical puzzle:
    All things feminists do are dumb.
    But not all dumb things are done by feminists.

    1. Unless the only reason that they had such power over everyone else was simply that any criticism or even critical analysis of their ideas, work or general production is simply not allowed.

    2. Feminism empowers females.
      Empowered females then (deliberately) make dumb design desisions in order to prove to themselves that THEIR will is obeyed instead of everyone just following good common sense (e.g. this is why the big lettering was called low key. It is the same as someone saying the sky is green and expecting you to agree not because they’re crazy but because they want to prove that you’re agreeing with them because they have power and not because of common sense.)
      Far from a weak connection with feminism this article is showing us something inherently very, VERY bad about female character and it’s enablement.

    3. Every female city council member and bureaucrat I’ve met are hard core feminists. It takes a certain breed of female to want public office.

    4. I totally buy that this is a feminist driven thing, with a splash of marxism (oxymoron). We all know that feminists are driven to destroy masculine recreations and pursuits. Baseball games are for buddies and father/son time. Uglifying the stadium is their passive/agressive resistance to this.

      1. I consider it likely, but even when someone tells me something I would guess as probably true, I still insist that they show evidence to prove it. If anyone is attempting to allege something (ie: feminism wrecked the stadium), I do expect evidence that is more than circumstantial (ie: a bunch of female academics voted against the stadium) to prove the case.
        To do otherwise is to invite the intellectual laziness that infects the SJW ideology: always assume the black guy/woman/person who isn’t a straight, white male didn’t get the promotion because of racism/misogyny/homophobia.
        SJW’s even take it a step further, and call anyone who says, “maybe the black guy didn’t get the promotion because he was sleeping at work,” a racist.

        1. But in something like this there will never be any “evidence” short of an admission by these women – so it becomes imperitive to “connect the dots.” These women were clearly being obstructionists and being capricious. That is undeniable. The question is: why? I have no idea why.
          The capriciousness is a hallmark of feminism. As another commenter noted, women how get onto these Boards and Commissions are invariably feminists who get off on exerting power. So this looks like a feminist duck and quacks like a feminist duck.
          This is a war. In war you can’t always wait for conclusive evidence. You’ve got to fight back with imperfect intelligence. Feminist or not, the institutions are corrupt and subverting them is becoming a necessity.

    5. Feminism leads to affirmative action. Affirmative action leads to hiring unqualified stupid people just because they have the proper genitals (or skin colour, or mental illness). Stupid unqualified people ruin everything they touch. Seems a rather direct and simple path from feminism to “this is why we can’t have nice things”.

    6. I’m on board with this assessment. In looking at the roster for the committee, the majority of members are male:
      http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/Birmingham_Design_Review_Committee
      This is more likely a case of typical bureaucrtic idiocy. I wouldn’t discount the possibility of some feminist influence, but to say that feminism was wholly responsible for the park’s stupid design is an overstatement. Even looking at the cited reason for rotating the park, “respecting architectural boundaries”, reeks of government-level retardation.
      Remember, folks, all things government are an exercise in inefficiency and stupidity. If there is a wrong way to do it, or it can be done with minimal efficiency and maximum expense, your government will do it that way. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and all that.

      1. You’re saying these guys took charge of the women on the committee and were responsible for screwing the design?
        All it takes is one woman in an office to completely wreck a team’s project; I imagine government is the same.

    7. I’ll tell you what, let’s wager. I’ll bet that they are feminists, and you can put money on them not being feminists. How comfortable are you taking that bet?

    8. Yeah that ancient aliens leap screamed out at me too.
      But odds are the members of that board fit the stereotype, including the men.

  5. Not saying you are not correct but your writing has utterly failed to connect this stupidity to feminists. Your writing could use some help. Where is my red pen?

  6. where’s the feminists involved with the change in it and i dont see the reasoning of how it was a feminist decision to change the facing direction of the ballpark, the article just injects the word “feminists” and shows a pic of the most stereotypical feminist but it has no connection with the tragedy in place, sounds like more of a hate on the committee
    and this stadium was no doubt funded by taxpayer money? and those taxpayers wont be able to watch any games for free right nor can they use the stadium as their ballpark right? so i would rather they dont make stadiums using my tax money to begin with, the real tragedy is how all these professional sports teams are forcing themselves as some kind of government and general populace interest which a big chunk of people like myself dont care if all the professional sports players all off themselves or not i dont care about them im not some 10 year old kid wearing a jersey with the name of a pro sports player and jumping up and down on adults that didnt grow up and get a real job
    its like this article is trying to get sympathy, this is like one of those Kratom or Mike Chang ads

  7. These women will just oppose things for the sake of their voices being heard. It’s sad that Birmingham is lacking in more shitlords to tell them to STFU.

    1. Carolla and kimmel had a good bit about that.
      ….
      Back before kimmel bent over for (((hollywood)))

  8. “Wise men are overruled and their experience and expertise are ignored.”
    ———————
    That is really what sank the Titanic too.
    The engineers were overruled and the watertight bulkheads lowered so that 1st class cunts wouldn’t have to climb up and down stairs to get from one side of the ship to the other (they’d have surely been the ones to complain the most not to mention they got to the lifeboats first too.)
    Had the design remained as intended that ship would have limped into New York (or at least stayed afloat long enough for every ship in the vicinity to get there).
    Oh, and before any of you start telling me there were no females on the White Star Line’s board of directors or whatever.
    They were, at least in large part, in the business of catering to spoiled cunts and so the wishes of spoiled cunts were fulfilled.
    So it is females fucking shit up by proxy.

    1. Every time, all the time. When I have to solve emergency-level problems (or when I did, before I sold my company- I did well in the second dot com boom and sold out and retired at age 42- I had nearly two hundred employees), I immediately discount anything any woman says/said. I fired (or found or fabricated reasons to fire) 19 women while I ran my company. I kept my H.R. and recruiting depts. staffed EXCLUSIVELY with loyal, well-paid, straight (not as hard to find in The Bay as you might think- we were in Santa Clara) men who I had sign non-disclosure agreements beyond the normal… because I was determined to keep out the cat lady and the poz… and my company became hugely successful, and I sold it in its fifth year. At the first indication of a female employee starting to try and remake things in their image or, if we saw anything resembling whining, victim behavior or thinking, or female-on-female drama/office backstabbing- you know of what I speak- we found “legit” reasons to let them go if we had to fabricate them entirely. This went for even the lowliest femme (most of them were data entry, reception, and marketing). I will not have it. The LAST thing I would EVER allow to be taken into consideration in a crisis were/would be the fucking feels of ridiculous bitches.

        1. Indeed is. You can protect yourself if you know how to work the system. Even though it is stacked against us, it can be done. You just have to be willing to be even sleazier and full of shit than the SJWs, learn how to recognize shit, and most importantly, STRIKE PREMPTIVELY.

        1. I sold out at a killer profit in the middle of the second IT boom and retired at 42 to the hills above Santa Fe, NM. I raise my kids and hike around now. Company no longer exists; was absorbed into a much larger IT security firm. They essentially bought their competitors out.

  9. How in the flying fuck did such a group acquire veto power???!?
    ….
    How was no man able to correct this?!?!?

    What was the broads problems? Invisible lines or some shit?

        1. Yes – but cities punt a lot of this to special boards and commissions with very little oversight and probably unaudited – there’s a reason why Jefferson County is a mess

  10. Who ceded power to this volunteer design approval committee? The mayor or City Council should have been responsible for the final decision. Ultimately, they’re the ones who should be blamed. Do some research – look up both the mayor and City Council of Birmingham and guess what you’ll find.

  11. Who ceded power to this volunteer design approval committee? The mayor or City Council should have been responsible for the final decision. Ultimately, they’re the ones who should be blamed. l did some research – look up both the mayor and City Council of Birmingham and guess what you’ll find.

  12. Who ceded power to this volunteer design approval committee? The mayor or City Council should have been responsible for the final decision. Ultimately, they’re the ones who should be blamed. Do some research – look up both the mayor and City Council of Birmingham and guess what you’ll find.

  13. Just feminists flexing their power because they can. Not once will they watch a game.

  14. The city’s lodging tax was more than doubled, to finance taxpayer funding of the facility.

    That alone is the worst aspect of this project. I’m kinda glad it went into the shitter.
    At the rate things are going hotel rooms are going to effectively rent for double their going rate, because too many cities and states can get away with passing “hidden” taxes like these that are almost never paid for by the locals.

  15. Maybe my reading comprehension is lacking, but I’m still confused as to who and why this particular group is vetoing the original construction plan. Anyone care to elaborate?

    1. I lived there for a few years when I was a kid and had some good memories of the place. Fast forward a decade and a half later and I drove through there on my way from west GA to New Orleans. I thought I had a flat tire. Turns out it was the shitty road causing that thudding sound and all that vibration.

    2. BIRMINGHAM IS LOST; it’s another “chocolate city” a la Detroit and Baltimore, being run into the ground and insolvency by demo/dinducrats and google tribalism. Affirmative action hires assure city services continue to spiral into the toilet. Half if not more of the blacks in “law enforcement” are “down with the cause” and corruption and preferential race-based enforcement is rife as a result. White victims of crime are left wondering when or if their cases will be addressed by black detectives/LEO’s. Random unprovoked racist mob attacks by “youfs” on solitary or small groups of whites- where families, women, and SMALL CHILDREN are being savagely beaten- are now a DAILY OCCURRENCE as of early this past summer (as opposed to maybe “just” a couple such attacks by roving “polar-bear hunters” per weekend at this time last year). These crimes are not investigated or prosecuted, and those committing these hate crimes/attacks know full well that they can commit them with impunity…. but of course, this is the “new normal”. No white should be living in the city limits there unless they are constantly carrying and willing to shoot to kill immediately. Of course, whites deserve all this, because slabery n sheeeit. The “youfs” are gonna LOOOOVE this new ball park as fertile hunting grounds for dispensing “racial justice” of the type favored (if not tacitly promoted) by the local and National media and all-but-completely ignored by Birmingham P.D. (oh, lawdy, what would happen if we attempted to make a mass arrest of one of these roving gangs? Why, we’d have a three-day riot on our hands and be accused of “raycism”! Better to just give them “space to destroy” and let the youfs kick in the faces of three-year-old white kids in strollers).
      How much more are you willing to take, white man? I guess a bunch, because you are all “sissies” and “bitch-ass crackas”, right?
      ….and when the evil felonious cunt is elected in a few weeks, expect all this to increase exponentially yet again. Enjoy!

    3. The rest of Alabama looks down on Birmingham.
      That should tell you all you need to know.

      1. I don’t believe Mobile could look down on Detroit, if it wanted to. As far as I’m concerned, Alabama could slide off into the ocean.

  16. Yes, take it from a Pittsburgher, having a park facing the city skyline is a TERRIBLE idea. People coming to PNC Park for the first time ALWAYS say “and you gave up playing in the cement bowl (Three Rivers Stadium) for this.” /SARC

  17. Birmingham is a googled city that used to be known as “The Pittsburgh of the South”. Googles run everything, and don’t want Whites to gentrify anything in the city because they are afraid Whites might take political power back.
    Birmingham is one big slum, and googles like it that way. If they wanted to have a real baseball stadium they should have built it in the White suburbs.

  18. This is what politics does combined with busy bodies do. But everything is getting collectivized to give power seeking people power.
    But still, another taxpayer funded stadium for private profit? I would vote against it on that basis. How they orient their stadium is up to them, I just don’t believe government should be making other people pay for it.
    On a smaller scale and completely private property:
    http://jalopnik.com/awful-neighbors-are-suing-their-neighbor-because-he-wor-1787769218
    Be sure to look at the local media stories linked.
    Short story: Two women want to stomp out their neighbor’s hobby. They and another neighbor have collectively spent $50,000 trying. For once though the government sides with the car guy.

    1. I don’t think providing some public support for a stadium is form of infrastructure that brings in a lot of tourists and business. But, the way it is applied today it is basically corporate welfare.

    2. His GoFundMe wanted to raise $40K for his legal defense against the busybodies harassing and suing him. In 7 days he has raised $56K!!! 😆
      Also, in his smackdown of the Plaintiffs, the judge quoted the Simpsons! 😎

  19. I enjoy going to the local minor league team. Tickets are under $10. You can get a night’s worth of food and beer for another $15-20. The food is actually good as they brought in local businesses to do the program instead of hiring a national company that just dumps stuff into fryers. The beer is also local/regional so you get a decent craft brew instead of Bud or Miller Light. Management also does fun events like walk the bases, gets local celebrities to throw out first pitches, etc. They also made sure the stadium was accessible by both public transit and had plenty of parking. I can get there by taking a slightly inconvenient route on a bus if I want to have a few beers or drive in without have to experience a parking back up.
    I can’t say the same about big leagues. Tickets even for crappy teams can easily run $50+ for horrible seats. The beer and food is expensive and also shitty. Want a simple hot dog and beer? That will be $20 bucks. Lines are long. You can spend half an inning just to get your beer to start out. I find most of the staff rude. If you try to move down to literally a completely empty section from the one for which you are ticketed they will shout at your and threaten to have you expelled. All the TV breaks drag out the games.
    If you want to enjoy the great American pastime of baseball go find your local minor league team(s).

  20. Have you post this article to every protagonist of this disaster, including the officials of your cities and the peope concerned by playing baseball ?

  21. I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I drive 500 miles and I see all sorts of beautiful things; Walmart, Chipotle, Starbucks, Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy’s, Home Depot, Target, McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, McDonalds, Starbucks, Burger King.
    Cabin in Montana.

  22. A homebuilder in Missouri in the early 2000s was just six weeks away from completing a $700,000 home for a customer. The house however, burned down due to busybody liberals. They had gotten into the making of regulations and were ‘making homes green’. They required fluorescent lights in the closets instead of incandescent. A closet light was left on, and normally this wouldn’t be any sort of problem, but the ballast for the fluorescent light overheated and set the home on fire. He and other builders put together a political warchest and advertised the fact; county officials began changing rules back pretty darn quick. And if memory serves, there were women on that committee changing rules.

  23. Good article, but too many buzzwords. How are these people feminists? I live in Alabama, and i can tell you that feminism on an institutional scale is almost nonexistent here.

  24. The entire objection was a shit test. The women in power don’t care if it’s impossible to pass.

  25. Where’s the picture of Fenway Park? Not a single mention of that iconic baseball stadium? How did the writer of this article forget that?!

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