{"id":44255,"date":"2016-11-14T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44255"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:48:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:48:18","slug":"oh-why-not-one-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44255","title":{"rendered":"Oh, why not one more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-44256 \" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hawkslol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hawkslol.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hawkslol-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/local-govt--politics\/new-southside-arena-for-minor-league-hawks-could-cost-millions\/tx3VAggY8EdE6V6ASdrdQL\/\">Because that\u2019s a great idea<\/a>: The Atlanta Hawks\u2019 new developmental team, to get, wait for it . . . wait for it . . . a new stadium!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Everything about this is a bad idea.\u00a0 For starters, the NBA is a joke of an organization, bastardizing a pure game with hip-hop, flash and no substance, and the repeated degradation of a sport enjoyed all across the world.\u00a0 But to swindle taxpayers into creating an arena nobody wants for a D-league team??\u00a0 Now that\u2019s just some bull shit, if I\u2019ve ever heard it in my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The D-league isn\u2019t like minor league baseball; contrary to what the NBA wants people to believe.\u00a0 People end up in the D-league, because they\u2019re simply not good enough to make it into the NBA, and the D-league is more or less a holding cell for mediocre players, with organizations hoping the cream of the crop will rise, into becoming a useful backup player for the big squads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Regardless, Atlanta somehow sees it fit to build a new arena for mediocrity, obviously because it will pay back more to those who invest into it than it actually benefits those around it.\u00a0 And the fact that it\u2019s going to be located in College Park??\u00a0 That\u2019s about an idea as good as a Mercedes-Benz pickup truck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">College Park, for lack of a better term, is a ghetto.\u00a0 It\u2019s where there\u2019s gunshots reported just about every single night, and where rappers love to name drop as a place to test their street cred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Yet College Park is going to be on the hook for $20 million out of a supposed figure of $40 million in order to build an arena nobody will care about being played in by a developmental squad that nobody is going to care about.\u00a0 Given the nature of estimates and accuracy, it\u2019s safe to assume College Park will be on the hook for like $35 million, out of like $60 million, to make up for all the pocket lining the crooked bureaucrats of the city will inevitably be doing in their circlejerk for more stadiums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">College Park probably hasn\u2019t even circulated remotely close to $20 million dollars in their 120-year history.\u00a0 It\u2019s disgusting just how the poor city is being put on the hook for such a pointless venture, and that those who live there and actually pay their taxes will be responsible for building something that a lot of people probably couldn\u2019t\u2019 care less about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">A D-league team should be playing in like a high school gymnasium or something.\u00a0 If the players want to feel big league, they need to bust their ass and earn the right to play in a big league arena, and not be handed a new arena because corrupt politicians want to line their pockets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s astounding just how crooked this city\u2019s obsession with new stadiums is.\u00a0 The metro Atlanta area has basically two major league baseball parks, a minor league park, two football stadiums, an arena for basketball, an arena for arena football, minor league hockey, a separate soccer training facility, and now a developmental basketball arena.\u00a0 People don\u2019t care about any of them, because none of them are truly home to any champions, yet they continue to be built an erected anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I actually feel bad for College Park, for being victim to a legalized crime, and I think College Park is a shithole to begin with.\u00a0 But even they don\u2019t deserve being swindled for yet another Atlanta sports venue.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because that\u2019s a great idea: The Atlanta Hawks\u2019 new developmental team, to get, wait for it . . . wait for it . . . a new stadium! Everything about this is a bad idea.\u00a0 For starters, the NBA is a joke of an organization, bastardizing a pure game with hip-hop, flash and no substance, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, why not one more?<\/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":[59,79,112,45,143],"class_list":["post-44255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-cashmoney","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-ohatlanta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255","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=44255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44257,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions\/44257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}