{"id":44393,"date":"2017-02-02T23:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T03:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44393"},"modified":"2020-07-29T23:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:12:02","slug":"i-hope-sarasota-looks-forward-to-paying-140m-for-the-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44393","title":{"rendered":"I hope Sarasota looks forward to paying $140M for the Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because nobody seems to know any better<\/a>: Sarasota County agrees to continue negotiations with the Atlanta Braves in regards to building a brand spanking new exclusive Spring Training facility estimated at $75-80 million dollars<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally the Braves are hoping to contribute nothing but $Free.99<\/a> towards this grandiose and unnecessary expenditure, while the (mostly) innocent public picks up the rest of the tab.\u00a0 And as 100% of sporting venues have proven, the initial estimate is always incorrect, and the safe rule of thumb is to double the estimate, and that\u2019s closer to the end result than originally intended.\u00a0 It\u2019s a whole lot less disappointing when they actually fail<\/em> to exceed an estimate, albeit revised and deliberately inflated one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Best part is?\u00a0 If this stupid and pointless project actually takes off and the Braves get their new Spring Training complex, with public funds doing most (all) of the lifting, the Braves might not even have to make the financial records public.\u00a0 This is often being called something along the lines of the \u201cPitbull clause<\/a>,\u201d since apparently rapper Pitbull found some loophole that allowed for him to privatize the financial records to a some tourism event or whatever, but the bottom line is that because Pitbull did it, it leans to believe that the Atlanta Braves might be able to do it as well.\u00a0 And what\u2019s more trustworthy than taking measures to eliminate transparency and hiding records that should be public, if being paid by the public?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whatever though.\u00a0 Sarasota is doing this to themselves, and the Braves are going to fleece yet another gullible city into believing that they need professional sports to grace their town.\u00a0 When the promises of increased economic stimulation and jobs that aren\u2019t solely minimum wage stadium workers and maintenance employees fail to delivery, they can bitch and moan all they want while the Atlanta Braves organization and all their co-conspirators sit back, laugh and count their hard-fleeced tax dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, and it doesn\u2019t warrant its own post, since I figure it\u2019s easy to consolidate \u201cBraves screwing others\u201d into a singular post, but with Opening Day less than two months away, and the park and only the park barely only the thing that will be open for it, the Braves are crying poor and demanding<\/a> that Cobb County give them $14 million more dollars to help build roads, because it\u2019s not like the entire fucking planet<\/em> wasn\u2019t warning them of the transportation pitfalls that awaited them if they were going to build where they did.<\/span><\/p>\n

And they\u2019ll get the money, because the Braves and all other professional sports teams always get what they want because rich people are greedy and stupid and screwing over taxpayers is practically its own sport in itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

If only there was a way to make if official?\u00a0 Make a sport of screwing over taxpayers?\u00a0 Who are we kidding though, if it were a sport, then it too would warrant its own venues, and then shit\u2019s going to get real Inception-like meta up in here as long as the pursuit of dollars continues to increase layer by layer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because nobody seems to know any better: Sarasota County agrees to continue negotiations with the Atlanta Braves in regards to building a brand spanking new exclusive Spring Training facility estimated at $75-80 million dollars Naturally the Braves are hoping to contribute nothing but $Free.99 towards this grandiose and unnecessary expenditure, while the (mostly) innocent public … Continue reading I hope Sarasota looks forward to paying $140M for the Braves<\/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":[88,62,66,79,45,146],"class_list":["post-44393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-ballparks","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-triggered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44393","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=44393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44395,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44393\/revisions\/44395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}