Thanks to Amy for sending in these pictures of a defaced POWW sign. Consider this “game on” motherfuckers.
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i have never seen a baseball game in my life.
not on tv not in person.
neither little league, ncaa or mlb.
and i don’t care if the devil rays leave florida
that said, i think the people need to be allowed to vote on it.
furthermore, if it does not cost me any money that the current monstrosity isn’t already costing me…I have a hard time understanding why people are opposed to the new stadium.
just my opinion.
Yes, because sign vandalism and theft is a practice clearly limited to stadium proponents. Clearly those opposed to the plan haven’t engaged in this type of stuff.
Dear Autopsy,
Why is now NOT an appropriate time to be discussing a taxpayer-funded, half-billion dollar stadium? Let’s look at some things the city wants to cut from their budget and see:
- Eliminate staff positions or continued savings from 2007 staff reductions: $514,300
- Reduce civilian activities in police and fire departments: $384,600
- Increase or implement fees for Fire Department services such as false alarms, inspections and plans review: $276,400
- Eliminate recreation services at Rio Vista after-school program: $262,000
- Reduce parks maintenance: $249,300
- Increase activity and participation fees related to Teen Arts, Sports & Cultural Opportunities program: $185,200
- Increase existing or create new athletic field rental fees: $116,000
- Reduce greenscape budget: $100,000
- Reduce library hours: $93,300
- Eliminate weekend supervision at Fossil Skate Park: $4,600
- Eliminate flu shots: $4,200
We should also ask just how much the city has ALREADY spent on this stadium nonsense and which of the above would not have to be reduced or eliminated if that money were still available.
Also, Patrick, perhaps you are right. Please send Casey the pictures you have that support your claim.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
one time in high school my friend and I vandalized a pro-life billboard some church had erected in their front yard.
Defacing? Vandalism? Nahh… I like to call it art. Casey, I’m surprised you don’t agree… being the self proclaimed “Dirty Hipster” that you are.
There’s no badly drawn cock and balls pictures on there so it technically can’t be considered “art”.
http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2008/may/23/stadium-debaters-accuse-each-other-not-playing-fai/
“Signs backing and opposing the ballpark are being stolen in growing numbers. Claims of unfair campaign tactics have been leveled. Some pro-stadium merchants are even getting threats of boycotts unless they change their positions, ballpark supporters said.
“It’s unfortunate, and hopefully they’re isolated incidents and are not widespread,” said Kenny Locke, founder of Fans for Waterfront Stadium. “But we have had business people saying that to us, where people are coming in and basically threatening to boycott their business.”
Hal Freedman, founder of the anti-stadium group Preserve Our Wallets and Waterfront, said any of his group’s members who are making boycott threats to businesses are acting on their own. He said he knew only of one such incident.
At the same time, Freedman said he saw no problem with it.”
Justin,
Again, I wanna preface this by saying that I don’t follow the stadium issue as closely as most. I don’t care about baseball and I don’t care if the team moves. If the sport doesn’t involve a puck or a football I’d just as soon it get off my TV…but…Most of the tax money (and I may be wrong) is just redirected from the current stadium…so, six in one hand half dozen in the other.
if this were any other city it would be a non-issue. the opposition to this whole thing is being fueled by the lunatic fringe. why can’t these coo-coo birds with nothing better to do - protest something of real concern… hmm, say the war in iraq? this is all just another ridiculous distraction…. and it’s truly small in the scope of things.
personally i think the red NO signs are fugly as hell. they’re polluting my city with negativity. they should be swiped and vandalized. plus people who put signs in their yards are tacky as fuck.
So what have you done to make the world a better place “Art Official”?
By the way, this whole planet and everything that ever has existed or ever will exist is “small” in the over all scope of things.
What’s truly tacky are people who chastise those who are trying to protect something they love and are actually up, off their asses DOING SOMETHING (other than bitch ass blog thread posts).
your statement on everything being small is incorrect. it’s a romantic idea but defies basic laws of the universe. you see, to have something small.. you must also have something large. One can’t exist without the other. if everything were small, then nothing would be large, if nothing was large, then nothing could be small.
oh and if you think putting a sign in your yard equals “DOING SOMETHING” wow do you have a lot to learn.
…and my contributions to society, this community as well as several others, goes a bit beyond what your small mind could imagine.
so go put another sign in your yard and keep believing that it will change the world.
the new stadium looks like the product of a bunch of gay architects inhaling glue and watching Mad Max 2: Beyond Thunderdome
PASS
beau, here is a word you should learn.
discrimination
noun
1 the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, sex or sexual orientation : victims of racial discrimination | discrimination against homosexuals.
homophobia is sooo last century.
by the way.. you own and desire art created by gay artists. so you should really watch what you say… cause you never know who’s reading this.
hold the phone Dolores; to crib Seinfeld, ‘not that there’s anything wrong with that’
geez. jumpy
Well well well . . . Looks like people have some ’splanin to do.
Justin, to answer your belief: “Most of the tax money (and I may be wrong) is just redirected from the current stadium…so, six in one hand half dozen in the other.”
That’s only true in part . . . Here’s where some of the money is coming from (taken from the St. Pete Times http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/16/na-rays-on-stadium-if-you-build-it-no-new-tax-will/)
:
- $55 million in parking revenue. That means charging for parking at existing city parking ramps - First Friday and a baseball game? Expect the RAYS to get your parking $$, not the city even though you’re not even going to the game. So technically, this is money OUT of the public coffers.
- $100 million from Pinellas County’s 1-cent bed tax, now set to expire in 2015 but extended as far as 2047 under the Rays plan. Bed tax money now is used to pay off the Tropicana debt. Small hotel owners in Pinellas were pretty excited to stop paying for Tropicana in 2015 but wait! You’ve got 32 more years!
- The last point, and it’s a biggie, is that they’re expecting $70 million from the sale of the existing field. BUT they still owe $69 million on the place. And they’ve only had offers for $65 million. So who knows where that’s coming from, not to mention that that would be PUBLIC money because it’s the sale of a public place.
I just want to remind everyone that the city is also asking our public school teachers to take a 2% DECREASE in pay this year, in addition to eliminating hundreds of positions and actually increasing class sizes.
Where the hell are our civic morals??
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