{"id":44736,"date":"2017-06-14T22:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T02:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44736"},"modified":"2020-08-01T22:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T02:51:44","slug":"braves-want-more-taxpayer-money-and-the-sun-also-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44736","title":{"rendered":"Braves want more taxpayer money and the sun also rises"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TL;DR<\/a>: The Atlanta Braves seek $20 million dollar grant from Florida to build their future Spring Training facility out in Sarasota<\/span><\/p>\n

Whaaaat<\/a>?\u00a0 The Braves want someone else<\/em> to shoulder the financial load for something that they<\/em> want?\u00a0 Never heard of such lunacy in my entire life.<\/span><\/p>\n

A long time ago, I was in Las Vegas with a large group of friends.\u00a0 Like most large groups of friends tend to do in Las Vegas, we ended up going to a strip club.\u00a0 The Girls of Glitter Gulch<\/a>, specifically. (RIP)\u00a0 At the GGG, there was this one stripper that periodically showed up to our table, and with the vitriol that only a mad black woman can conjure up, looked at one person at the table each time and demanded, \u201cWHERE U BEEN?\u00a0 GIMME A DOLLAR!\u201d and like five times out of five times she pulled the stunt, whomever she targeted would promptly fork over a dollar, and then she\u2019d vanish before doing the whole thing again later.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s kind of what the Braves are, as it pertains to this situation in Sarasota.\u00a0 Naturally, they whispered sweet nothings into Sarasota\u2019s ear to get them all wet and excited about the prospect of housing a Spring Training facility, but when it came time to settle the check, the Braves went all Extreme Cheapskates on the city, and at first, agreed to pay for their share of the tab, but as the months went on, the willingness to contribute their share diminished, and the Braves began turning every single stone and rock over, looking for ways to minimize how much they had to contribute, and how much the city of Sarasota or the state of Florida would pay instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Every time the story of the Braves\u2019 future Spring Training home emerges, it\u2019s WHERE U BEEN? GIMME A DOLLAR all over again, with the Braves acting like they\u2019ve never seen Sarasota in their entire lives, and then promptly and aggressively asking for money.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love how much of a no-brainer terrible idea all of this was, and I guess it shouldn\u2019t surprise me at all to just how dumb and gullible the people involved in the fleecing of their city were.\u00a0 I mean seriously, $1.7 billion dollars of projected impact over 30 years?\u00a0 Not accounting for inflation?\u00a0 Sure, $1.7 billion over 30 years is roughly $57 million, which in itself is no chump change, but that\u2019s for an entire fucking city, and not an individual.\u00a0 The surplus that comes from $57 million certainly doesn\u2019t seem worth it compared to the sheer magnitude of money put up front, to the Braves in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

The estimated cost of the entire facility was listed at $75 million.\u00a0 $21.3 million of which are coming from the city of Sarasota itself, meaning the developer and the Braves would be responsible for the remaining nearly $50 million; that is, until the Braves decided to do their favorite activity and cry poor, and now the state of Florida might be on the hook for $20 million themselves.\u00a0 Which means it\u2019s only a matter of time before the Braves pull their vanishing act before bursting back in asking WHERE U BEEN GIMME A DOLLAR in regards to the remaining $30 million they owe.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s before the sports dollars run out, and the actual cost of the facility which will undoubtedly hit the $100 million mark will need more funding, to which it will inevitably be the responsibility of Sarasota taxpayers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, the Braves are running out of organizational tiers to build shit to fuck over taxpayers of varying parts of the United States.\u00a0 They\u2019ve screwed Rome, Jackson<\/a>, Lawrenceville<\/a> and Marietta<\/a> already, so I guess there\u2019s still a little bit of room for them to try and screw Danville, and perhaps resume trying to screw Wilmington<\/a>, when they\u2019re done screwing over Sarasota.<\/span><\/p>\n

When they ultimately run out, I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to brog about anymore, aside from racial hypocrisy, wrestling, commercials, semi-trucks tipping over, and the stupid shit that happens all around Atlanta.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TL;DR: The Atlanta Braves seek $20 million dollar grant from Florida to build their future Spring Training facility out in Sarasota Whaaaat?\u00a0 The Braves want someone else to shoulder the financial load for something that they want?\u00a0 Never heard of such lunacy in my entire life. A long time ago, I was in Las Vegas … Continue reading Braves want more taxpayer money and the sun also rises<\/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":[88,66,79,45,49],"class_list":["post-44736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-ballparks","tag-braves","tag-cashmoney","tag-fail","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44736","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=44736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44738,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44736\/revisions\/44738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}