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Over the span of the last decade or so, Georgia and primarily the Metro Atlanta area has seen a lot of sports-related projects be dropped onto us.\u00a0 Spouting bullshit like economic impact<\/em>, (minimum-wage) job creation<\/em> and moar reasons for people to come visit _____<\/em> to feebly mask the reality that a bunch of old men are going to be getting rich on their investments while the taxpayers of each locale eat the brunt of the cost, we in Atlanta have witnessed such projects emerge or be proposed:<\/span><\/p>\n So short of an NHL team that the city had already squandered, Atlanta\u2019s pretty well represented in most major spectator sports, with the Braves, Hawks, Falcons and United, as well as minor league baseball and hockey smattered around the outskirts.\u00a0 And they\u2019ve all got their expensive little homes to mostly themselves; you\u2019d think at this point, the city was actually full of sport venues\/facilities, and couldn\u2019t actually find any more means to build sport-related shit to bilk taxpayers, right?<\/span><\/p>\n LOL this post wouldn\u2019t have come to fruition if the answer were actually yes.<\/span><\/p>\n So let\u2019s congratulate Fayetteville, Georgia, for becoming the new and future home of the US Soccer<\/a> National Training Center and the US Soccer Federation, and the latest victim<\/span> member of Georgia\u2019s club of regions to get more than likely fleeced by the building of something that the state had no need for in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Everything about this story is pretty laughable to me, from the fact that the article continuously dodges naming actual Fayetteville, and continuously tries to keep referring it to as Fayette County or as Trilith, which I had to Google myself and find out that that\u2019s the name that used to be Pinewood, as in Pinewood Studios, which I\u2019m guessing they had to change the name because a Pinewood Studios already existed in England long before it emerged here and nobody bothered to check so now we\u2019ve got Trilith for some reason.<\/span><\/p>\n But for some reason, US Soccer tries to sell that the proximity to a movie-studio catered micro town is the justification for wanting to come to Georgia as the primary reason, and keep on the down-low the fact that both Coca-Cola and rich sports fan Arthur Blank both fronted a whole lot of money to make it happen, not to mention the State of Georgia is probably giving a ton of tax breaks which will undoubtedly come at the expense of State employees.\u00a0 I mean it would be pretty refreshing if US Soccer reps would just come out and spit the truth that they chose Georgia because it would benefit us the best financially, on an individual personal level and thanks for all the money chumps.<\/span><\/p>\n Among other bullshit reasons Fayetteville was selected was that it was closed to a major airport, which is actually true, in actual spatial distance from point A to point B.\u00a0 The mileage between Trilith and the airport isn\u2019t really that far, but the actual time it takes to get from Point A to Point B is a completely different matter, as Trilith is literally in the middle of the fucking countryside, surrounded by a web of backroads and local routes unless some serious infrastructure has changed since I used to take them to an old job.\u00a0 Getting to the airport would still take 30-60 minutes depending on how many trucks and\/or elderly drivers are on the roads with you, and nothing short of having a private Stonecutter\u2019s underground tunnel from the soccer HQ to the airport can justify the benefit of being close in distance.<\/span><\/p>\n Another cited reason was that Georgia\u2019s climate made it optimal for training to be able to be done year-round, which is a fair point, but at the same time, I counter with the fact that there\u2019s a reason why US Olympians train up in Colorado Springs.\u00a0 If athletes can endure the cold and the altitude, there\u2019s little reason to believe that they couldn\u2019t succeed anywhere else on the planet.\u00a0 Training in Georgia subjects all these soccer players to pollen-filled springs, summers that are on the same tropical conditions as competitors from Guatemala or Bolivia, and maybe falls and winters that might make players capable of playing in Premiere League conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, they may be able to train outdoors year-round in Georgia, but as the US demonstrated before in the past, schedule international games to be played in Denver, in the snow, and teams like Costa Rica and other warm-weather nations just can\u2019t compete.\u00a0 Not sure why they don\u2019t game the system more whenever international friendlies and CONCAF qualifiers are played in America.<\/span><\/p>\n But of course, the best cited reason,<\/span><\/p>\n SUPPORT FROM A DIVERSE, GROWING COMMUNITY WITH OPPORTUNITY TO DRIVE ECONOMIC IMPACT LOCALLY<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Because I know what kind of community this is.\u00a0 I lived on the south side for 13 years, and I used to live in Fayette County.\u00a0 Diverse means that Fayetteville has a lot of black people that live there, growing refers the gentrification sprawl that all the white folks in Peachtree City are creeping into the area, and the opportunity to drive economic impact means that their presence might actually bring restaurants that are going to be more impressive to the only Bonchon restaurant in the entire state, that\u2019s coincidentally in Fayetteville.<\/span><\/p>\n US Soccer probably thinks they\u2019re going to be some Jesus entity that\u2019s going to bring 400 minimum-wage jobs to the local area, and that their arrival is going to transform anything other than the fact that the 1%-ers of US Soccer might actually have to move to Peachtree City to be close to their jobs, or perhaps take over Evander Holyfield\u2019s foreclosed mansion.<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever though; just when I thought that Georgia had all of the major sports checked off as far as needing facilities or arenas for, I guess my line of thinking was too small, thinking about local, regional teams.\u00a0 Clearly, at the National<\/em> level, there\u2019s still plenty of opportunity to rope some organizations into coming to Georgia so that local stiffs can swindle taxpayers and line their pockets.\u00a0 Perhaps in the future, US Basketball can call up Shaq, who has a lot of ties in Atlanta, and then maybe out in like Carrollton or Covington, Georgia can build the future home to USA Basketball next.<\/span><\/p>\n Never say never, when it comes to the lengths Georgia politicians will go to when it comes to imagining new and inventive ways to bilk taxpayers and pad their own personal interests.\u00a0 It was the film industry the last decade, but it appears the sports industry is still viable and very much on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the span of the last decade or 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