A reason to restructure your savings plan…
Looks like I may need to more aggressively save for those outdoor stadium season tickets, after all.
On a day when I was utterly lamenting less-than-stellar pitching and an 8-2 loss to the loathesome Yankees, the Strib says a 2010 season opening for an outdoor ballpark has cleared a walloping hurdle.
With new financial backing from the Minnesota Twins, the county voted today to move to buy the property needed for a new 40,000-seat ballpark in downtown Minneapolis that would open in 2010. The move effectively breaks a four-month impasse.
I’m not ironing my homer hanky and sewing seat cushions for my outdoor seats just yet… but this news is definitely welcome.
(That, and Boof starts tonight. I don’t care if it is against Petitte. Who doesn’t like to sit around in Uptown, drinking Minnesota beer, sreaming “Boooof” at a big TV in a barful of people?)
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I’m still a little unclear on the details here. Have they actually determined the price of the land? Wasn’t that part of the hang up? Also, it seems to be a good thing that the team is partially on the hook for further proceedings. But again, not really sure exactly what happened here. Basically sounds like it could be an eminent domain thing.
They used eminent domain to secure the land, which MPR didn’t report this morning. Shame on you MPR. You usually do such a good job reporting the facts…
I very much disagree with using eminent domain to take this land. Eminent domain is supposed to be used for public facilities, utilities, roads, etc… And I don’t care how you look at it.. The new Twins stadium is for a commerical business.
The fact that I’m also helping to pay for the f*&king stadium is another big thorn in my side…
I used to love the Twins, now I hate them with a passion that rivals my hate for Tim Pawlenty and George Bush.
This is a bit of a positive development. The Twins might have to actually pay a bit more for what they’re getting. This is good because it reduces, slightly, the size of the free ride they’re getting.
It still sucks that the county is going to seize private property, give most of the value of that property to another business, and fund it with tax dollars.