{"id":42519,"date":"2016-07-07T21:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42519"},"modified":"2020-07-22T21:41:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T01:41:37","slug":"oh-look-moar-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=42519","title":{"rendered":"Oh look, moar proof"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bloomberg<\/a>: The Braves Play Taxpayers Better Than They Play Baseball<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For all the words I\u2019ve spent talking about how the Atlanta Braves are a bunch of money-grubbing immoral crooks in regards to the covert planning and execution of the construction of ScumTrust Park, I\u2019ve neglected the other branches of the Braves organization, namely the minor leagues.\u00a0 And despite the fact that I far prefer minor league ball over the trash at the major league level, as far as the Braves are concerned, it turns out that they\u2019re no less despicable in other towns too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I knew about the swindling of the people done in Lawrenceville, when it came to bringing the Triple-A Braves to Gwinnett, since I know people who live up there, who don\u2019t like baseball, who are less than impressed with the idea of having to pony up extra pennies on their daily purchases, to finance a ballpark.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it turns out that both the Low-A Rome Braves and the Double-A Mississippi Braves are also instances where the Braves moved teams to their current homes, after basically strong-arming their previous residences, giving them a tiny window to meet gargantuan demands, and when they predictably fail, pulling the teams and moving them to towns that had been prearranged to build ballparks at the cost of taxpayers, with hopeless promises of local financial stimulation, and a benefit to all parties, but then failed and saddled debts on the public, while the Braves and conspirators are last money in, first money out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The thing is, I\u2019ve voiced tons of doubt about the mythical financial benefits of ballparks and stadiums, and I\u2019ve found numerous articles and studies that prove that they\u2019re all horrible ideas for communities albeit extremely beneficial towards those who plot them.\u00a0 Yet they continue to spring up like hideous weeds, like AT&T Stadium, Marlins Park, the development of a new Texas Rangers ballpark, and then the atrocities of Atlanta, ScumTrust and Mercedes-Benz.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just even more interesting to me that the Braves not only have their one ballpark at the major league level causing a massive stink, but that they\u2019ve basically already pulled the same song and dance three-times over now, at the minor league level.\u00a0 While the Braves and those who have invested in these minor league ballparks have all undoubtedly benefited from their constructions, the cities of Rome, Jackson and Lawrenceville have all yet to really see any substantial financial benefit, a far cry from the rhetoric that is spouted to them about how there\u2019s bound to be massive monetary flourishing.<\/span><\/p>\n

What the Bloomberg article is quick to point out is that ultimately when the days are over, the Braves really only have to wine and dine these small city representatives, and they\u2019ve done so several times over, with luxury suites and lavish \u201cmeetings,\u201d where they seem to inevitably cave, and in the name of the cities they represent and all their taxpayers, agree to these terrible ballpark deals.\u00a0 Ain\u2019t local government grand<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, the Bloomberg article is long, but for those interested in this particular topic, it\u2019s still a good read about how despite the fact that the Braves suck at baseball, they\u2019re still World Series-caliber when it comes to fucking small towns and their taxpayers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bloomberg: The Braves Play Taxpayers Better Than They Play Baseball For all the words I\u2019ve spent talking about how the Atlanta Braves are a bunch of money-grubbing immoral crooks in regards to the covert planning and execution of the construction of ScumTrust Park, I\u2019ve neglected the other branches of the Braves organization, namely the minor … Continue reading Oh look, moar proof<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,62,66,79,112,45,90,165],"class_list":["post-42519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-ballparks","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-cashmoney","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42521,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42519\/revisions\/42521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}