Friday, May 26, 2023

MLB Commish: 'Pay Up or Else!'

 Hoo Boy!!  This will make you quake in your boots....

Wisconsin's Legislature and Gov. Tony Evers need to approve a plan to finance $448 million of long-term renovations at American Family Field — or perhaps risk the Milwaukee Brewers moving to another city.

That's the indirect message delivered Thursday by Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred on a visit to Milwaukee − part of a series of visits Manfred makes to MLB cities.

To be sure, Manfred didn't explicitly say the Brewers might leave Milwaukee once the team's lease of American Family Field expires at the end of 2030. And the ballclub's principal owner, Mark Attanasio, has said repeatedly he wants the team to stay in Milwaukee for the long term.

But Manfred told reporters it's important that a ballpark funding plan be promptly approved by government officials....

Few taxpayers have problems with fixing concrete or roof-structures.

LOTS of taxpayers have problems with building new, larger, kitchens, bars, and amenities--such as a much-larger scoreboard.

If you want to eat and drink, go to a restaurant.  This is not about baseball; it's about 'the baseball experience.'

Shove it, pal.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Govt should not be funding baseball, a for profit enterprise.

Some taxpayers don’t want anything to do with baseball, why should they fund it?

We don’t live & exist to pay taxes and squeezed like lemons to make lemonade….,

Baseball can just bugger off

Greg