{"id":2888,"date":"2008-07-17T06:33:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2008-07-17T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T11:35:21","slug":"this-deal-stinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"This deal stinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our new stadium deal stinks? Nick, we knew that already and as much as I loathe linking to your tripe, you may have a point (albeit a bit late) here.<\/p>\n

Our ill-gotten stadium will be a flop without a roof once the novelty wears off, and now it appears the weather may be the least of the Twin’s environmental bogies.<\/p>\n

With ‘facility’ next door – so much for new ballpark smell <\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t say “garbage burner.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s not a garbage burner,” says Glenn Schmidt, chief engineer at the plant, which burns 1,000 tons of, um, “waste” daily. “It’s Energy From Waste.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Facility,” adds maintenance supervisor Jeff Johnson: “Energy From Waste Facility.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

I met them after I hiked around the stadium Wednesday to check out a tip that “the facility” was giving off the kind of smell you encounter when someone “dies” while using your facilities. <\/em><\/p>\n

In other words, it wasn’t good. And it really wouldn’t be good if a national TV audience saw us holding our noses.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was 85 degrees and windy — a typical summer day — as I perambulated the area. It didn’t smell good to me, but I have a big smeller, so maybe I was pulling in a scent cloud from a turkey plant near Willmar. I asked people I met along the way how it smelled to them. Some were catching a big whiff. Others, just a sniff.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It stinks like mildewing filth,” said Jennifer Dixon, 36, who was waiting on 7th Street with her husband, Mike, and their children to catch a No. 22 bus. “I don’t think people at a ballgame are gonna like it.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our new stadium deal stinks? Nick, we knew that already and as much as I loathe linking to your tripe, you may have a point (albeit a bit late) here. Our ill-gotten stadium will be a flop without a roof once the novelty wears off, and now it appears the weather may be the least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}