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ANF<\/a>: Georgia to build a professional cricket stadium, in LaGrange<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a while since I had an old-fashioned diatribe about a sports stadium, yeah?\u00a0 I mean the Braves had pretty much run out of stadiums to build and fleece the local taxpayers over, Atlanta United already got their stadium, their training ground, as well as USA Soccer down in Fayetteville.\u00a0 The purported temu-Battery in Forsyth\/Dawsonville<\/a> designed to attract an NHL expansion team still seems like there\u2019s lots of room for failure to occur or for people to open their eyes and realize that they\u2019re being swindled.<\/span><\/p>\n So it actually seemed like Georgia had hit somewhat of a saturation point as far as the necessity to build any more unnecessary sporting venues, and it actually has been a little quiet over majority of the last decade.<\/span><\/p>\n It was actually back in July of 2017<\/a> in which I first caught wind of there being interest in a cricket stadium in Georgia, and considering it didn\u2019t happen immediately, I guess I let my guard down at thinking that perhaps, the state finally found their breaking point as far as not dropping what they\u2019re doing in order to build some wholly unnecessary project in order for some rich white people to smokescreen a town into usurping public funds to line their coffers with.<\/span><\/p>\n But never say never, and never underestimate the tenacity of the greedy in order to pursue schemes in order to make a lot of money, but it seems that a decade later, Georgia will be getting its own fucking cricket stadium too because that\u2019s totally what this state needs instead of improved infrastructure, mass transit, affordable housing, or even more chicken tender or bougie donut joints.<\/span><\/p>\n In one hand, I want to say that in all fairness, there are a shitload of Indian people in the Metro Atlanta area, specifically Smyrna\/Vinings, where it literally feels like residential zones from India were plucked out of the ground like Sim City<\/em> and dropped there, and at least in my observations, nobody loves cricket more than that specific demographic, so there stands to be belief that there could be a demand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, that would be somewhere remotely near Smyrna\/Vinings and not way the fuck out in LaGrange, where contrary to ANF\u2019s reporting\u2019s claims, is very much not a part of Metro Atlanta.\u00a0 Without traffic, it\u2019s like 75 miles southwest of Smyrna\/Vinings and maybe 90 minutes, but given the fact that there\u2019s never not traffic in the actual Metro Atlanta area, it\u2019s probably more of a three-hour trek to get down to LaGrange, which is closer to the Alabama state line than it is to Atlanta, much less Newnan, the first bastion of civilization heading east from there.<\/span><\/p>\n I really can\u2019t imagine that all the Indians and\/or cricket fans that will undoubtedly spawn because there\u2019s nothing whiter than glomping onto the new thing to pretend like you\u2019ve been a fan all along, will still be willing to travel all the way to LaGrange in order to watch cricket matches, because the traffic will suck where I-85 chokes down from three lanes to two at Newnan, and if there\u2019s any modicum of demand, then the shitty small town infrastructure will get their asses beat while they try to figure things out.<\/span><\/p>\n Not that I\u2019m going to care enough in 2027 to keep my ear to the ground at the results, but I\u2019d be interested if they were fed to me.<\/span><\/p>\n But in the other hand, Georgia just doesn\u2019t need yet another fucking sporting venue, especially for such an L-tier sport like cricket.\u00a0 Even if the construction of it will boost the local economy with probably a few hundred minimum wage paying job opportunities, studies have shown that in lieu of massive multi-million dollar projects like sporting venues, there\u2019s more money to be had at building spaces that accommodate conventions and conferences, and keeping low-maintenance events churning on a regular basis actually feeds economies better than sporting venues do.<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever though, I thought I\u2019d have a little bit more venom to spit in regards to this, but I don\u2019t.\u00a0 Perhaps because it\u2019s being built in LaGrange, Alabama and remotely nowhere near the actual Metro Atlanta area, and doesn\u2019t stand to impact my taxes whatsoever that takes a lot of heat out of my desire to be on offense.\u00a0 But I still think it\u2019s really foolish and unnecessary all the same, and if Georgia is gung-ho about building joints for shit like cricket, I guess it\u2019s only a matter of time before they begin to start having talks about building sporting venues for shit like Ultimate Frisbee or professional Quiddich.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANF: Georgia to build a professional cricket stadium, in LaGrange It\u2019s been a while since I had an old-fashioned diatribe about a sports stadium, yeah?\u00a0 I mean the Braves had pretty much run out of stadiums to build and fleece the local taxpayers over, Atlanta United already got their stadium, their training ground, as well … Continue reading Wow, I didn\u2019t think they\u2019d actually do it (AKA Oh, Georgia 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