Baseball battle
The deal to bring minor league baseball in Springdale is getting contentious. Some council members apparently don't understand that the owner of the baseball team expects to call the shots on lease of the publicly financed stadium, not them.
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This is funny. I lamented the loss in Fort Smith of a bond election to build a youth sports complex and marveled at the wisdom of the Springdale voters in passing one. Even if it was by 12 votes. Now they risk losing it because the redness of Springdale's neck is showing. It may have been the close vote. Whatever, it seems that a few gonzos that know litte of the sports business is trying to scuttle the deal due to them not being involved in the closed door negotiations . That of course, would have brought the FIA into play and there would have been no negotiations. Go Springdale.
Posted by: FortSmithBoy![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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August 31, 2006 09:55 AM
"Now they risk losing it because the redness of Springdale's neck is showing.
Springdale, like Ft Smith, has ziltz experience neogotiating anything. His Royalty, the mayor screwed up a $100,000 computer service contract then attempted to backtrack, now his feebleness wants to lead the City down a disastersous losing path. This Stadium deal is only good for the
signing team. Springdale folks get screwed. It's that simple. What, dear Ft Smith fellow, will the people of Springdale ever gain from this?
It will do wonders for pulling people into resturants in nearby Fayetteville and Rogers.
My god most of Springdale's streets don't have storm gutters and we're letting these self-interested Chamber types load us up with 20 years of losing obligations for a hour or two a week for 18 weeks a year. I hope for all of us these neogiations fall through. I don't know exactly who is getting the payoff of this entire thing but it's always good to follow the money.
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August 31, 2006 12:29 PM
Sports stadiums are corporate welfare, pure and simply. Until our schools are fixed, it ought to be illegal to build one.
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August 31, 2006 02:02 PM
The difference between NLR and Springdale is that the Travs are owned by a consortium of locals with no threat to move the team elsewhere and no desire to make a profit, just to give the money back to support the stadium and community. It makes things so much simpler and I'm so glad that Central Arkansans did this so many year ago.
Roland, money doesn't fix schools. Throwing money a the problem changes nothing.
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August 31, 2006 03:29 PM