The only place I\u2019ve ever watched baseball was the Metrodome. Though over the past few years, I began to HATE going to games there. The ONLY things I liked about the \u2018dome were the Dome Dogs, that awesome windtunnel effect when you left the game, it\u2019s close proximity to 35W and 20+ years of baseball memories. I wanted a new stadium. During the \u2018Great Minnesota Stadium Debate\u2019 I felt torn, we needed a new ballpark, one that wasn\u2019t shared with the Vikings and monster truck rallies. I wanted a stadium that captured the essence of baseball, not the feeling of claustrophobia while walking the concourse trying to make my way to my seat. But I didn\u2019t want it paid for with taxpayer money. I didn\u2019t think that was asking too much.<\/p>\n
I read the paper, watched the news, and instead of seeing civil compromises, it felt like I was watching hostage negotiations. \u201cGive us the money or we\u2019re selling the team to [some guy] and he might move it to [randomly chosen city].\u201d These guys were better than mexican drug cartel kidnappers!! The state really had no other option but to cave and let Hennepin county cover the $392 million tab. (Thanks Tim Pawlenty!!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And she notes the problem that is going to hurt a lot of the current tax-hawkery that’s going around, if we’re not careful:<\/p>\n
My problem with this lies in the fact that now that Target Field has been built, and the 2010 season has started, many people are forgetting how it came to be. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I am so in love with this ballpark that I can\u2019t really put it into words. I\u2019m excited for the season and I cannot wait to get to a game. (Especially since I will be getting tickets from uncle Mark, who has seats in the first row right above the Twins dugout!! *brag*) I also know that the whole baseball experience will be better for thousands of Minnesotans each summer. I LOOOOOVE that!!<\/p>\n
What I don\u2019t love is that now that we have this beautiful ballpark there\u2019s a feeling of \u201cWell, it\u2019s over and done with, can\u2019t change it now, lets enjoy the hell outta it!!\u201d But there\u2019s the sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach because this isn\u2019t the end, it\u2019s the beginning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She’s referring to the queue of teams that’ll be lining up for their own stadiums and arenas – but it’s actually much worse than that.<\/p>\n
Protesting against something that hasn’t happened yet.\u00a0 But people will adapt to anything (especially when the IRS and the MN Dept of Revenue gives you no choice but to adapt).\u00a0 Worse than that – turning something back is ten times as hard as stopping it in the first place.<\/p>\n
Which is, of course, why the Administration and the Democrats in Congress rammed Healthcare down has hard as they did; something that’s in place is vastly harder to roll back than a mere proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven’t been to the Twins stadium yet. I hear it’s pretty neat; for all the taxpayermoney that went into it, and after the ramdown that Henco taxpayers got that led to the taxing and spending, it’d better “Candice”, from the tack-spitting conservative blog Randomly Candice, observes: The only place I\u2019ve ever watched baseball was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10011,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}