"We don't want public funding," Beckham said to applause. "We will fund the stadium ourselves. We have worked very hard to get to this stage where we can fund the stadium ourselves. We want to create a football club that is the people's football club."Miami city officials reportedly want the stadium downtown, so it is yet to be seen what land will be targeted - and who will pay for it.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Beckham Says He'll Bring MLS to Miami without Public Funding
From today's AP article on David Beckham exercising his option for a MLS franchise in Miami:
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When pre-assuming by negative journalist gets righted...
ReplyDeleteThere's a hilarious quote on the "fieldofschemes" site, pertaining to the fact that the new stadium for the Braves will allow for the team to "keep players and be competitive." Funny, how the larger markets use the same scheme to rip off taxpayers. I wonder if at the Winter Meetings, that tactic is presented via Powerpoint entitled, "Shady Statements to get the Public to Buy our Stadiums."
ReplyDeleteIf you know anything about sports, you would understand that teams that spend money like the Braves, Yankees, and Dodgers aren't the "rip-offs", it's teams like the Cubs, Marlins, and Astros that continue to pocket money, and not spend it...
DeleteAs for "the stadiums", they're city investments w/ projected returns in revenue, unlike city or county money spent on non-revenue making civic pride projects...
There is no return on investment with stadiums. It's always a losing proposition. Civic Pride is nothing more than a manipulative term coined by people who want taxpayer money for a stadium. Do you think people that live in New Mexico or Iowa are less happy than people in states with a professional baseball or football team?
ReplyDeleteLOL, "NO return on investment with stadiums" is one of the dumbest & misinformed quotes one could make on the subject. We can talk about #'s, but all you have to understand is the fight & effort cities put towards getting or containing sports franchises, and it's not because they're a losing cause...
DeletePlus, If you grew up in an area with "pro. baseball or football", then move to NM or Iowa, yes your a lil' less happy you have to travel over 2-300+ mi. to see your team. And what happens is you end up trying to fill the void w/ Lobos & Hawkeyes sports, and you might think I don't know what I'm talking about, but try living in places like Pittsburgh & Tampa Bay, being a die-hard Rays, NBA, and Lightning fan then moving to Jacksonville where I'm subjected to only 10 pro or big college games out of 365 opposed to around 150...
Point being is that people in areas without sports teams aren't feeling a lack of civic pride. Just because you like being rip-offed by billionaire owners and athletes (who could pay for their own playpens if they wanted to) then that is obviously your prerogative. You're obviously, week minded, uneducated, lonely and have no self esteem if your life revolves around gaining a sense of purpose by rooting for a sports team. Go "eff" yourself scumbag.
Delete"Point being is that" your belief of other places civic pride is simply an opinion & not fact, though what is fact is that plenty of people choose to move to the Tampa Bay area over places like Ocala, Jacksonville, Ft. Myers, etc. because of it's deep rooted sports scene!
DeletePlus, like most people that knows they're wrong, they end-up name-calling instead like kids do . I can't help your one of those people that can't handle the truth. City investment on ballparks is no different then tax breaks for local big businesses. Of course your like a lot of others, yinz want the all the jobs & economic boost from big business moving to YOUR town or city, but don't want to help attract or give a lil' to help gain a lot. Stay classy "anonymous", because your beliefs aren't going to get you anywhere!
So hundreds of thousands of people have moved to the Tampa Bay area region in recent years, due to the presence of the Bucs, Rays, and Lightning?
DeleteDeluded. There's more to a metropolitan area than sports teams, you know.
Dude (or lady), please don't be narrow minded, it looks bad in the comment section of a blog...
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