Monday, April 26, 2004
Baseball Backers Plan Season-Ticket, Luxury Suite Sale
The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot breathlessly, and credulously, reports that MLB's only serious concern about the bid to move the Expos to Norfolk/Hampton Roads is whether the market has enough people to support a team. To address this issue, local promoters hope to launch a season-ticket drive within a month.
The promoters claim that $297 million would cover the cost of expanding Harbor Park, the existing AAA facility; building a new 38,000-seat major league ballpark; and then tearing down Harbor Park. Public funds would cover about two-thirds of the cost. While insisting that Norfolk's bid is fully financed, its public spokesmen, two twentysomething former stockbrokers, still refuse to identify the moneymen. (Might one of them be "billionaire" Donald Watkins?)
Author Harry Minium also writes:
"Reports in other cities indicate that at least three teams – the Florida Marlins , Minnesota Twins and Oakland A’s – may relocate after this season. "
Uh...sure. Time to adjust the medication, Harry...
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The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot breathlessly, and credulously, reports that MLB's only serious concern about the bid to move the Expos to Norfolk/Hampton Roads is whether the market has enough people to support a team. To address this issue, local promoters hope to launch a season-ticket drive within a month.
The promoters claim that $297 million would cover the cost of expanding Harbor Park, the existing AAA facility; building a new 38,000-seat major league ballpark; and then tearing down Harbor Park. Public funds would cover about two-thirds of the cost. While insisting that Norfolk's bid is fully financed, its public spokesmen, two twentysomething former stockbrokers, still refuse to identify the moneymen. (Might one of them be "billionaire" Donald Watkins?)
Author Harry Minium also writes:
"Reports in other cities indicate that at least three teams – the Florida Marlins , Minnesota Twins and Oakland A’s – may relocate after this season. "
Uh...sure. Time to adjust the medication, Harry...
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