Comments on: Miami-Dade challenges the Marlins over $1.7 million of stadium expenses

By: gloccamorra

gloccamorra — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:59:59 +0000

Forget the wax. If the Marlins are so anxious to make money, they’ll offer a bobblehead version.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:47:01 +0000

Don’t let them play up that economic impact – it’s vastly overstated. Check out Field of Schemes for more on it.

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:11:01 +0000

Spent yesterday PM programming my car stereo. Came across my Stevie Ray Vaughn collection. I miss that guy: fabulous voice, just amazing. He could play guitar a bit, too. I may not be all au fait with the folk music, but I knows me a loss or two to music when I hears one. The mortality of singers, indeed.

By: heyblueyoustink

heyblueyoustink — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:05:32 +0000

If there’s some kind of wax likeness of the face chewing zombie impersonator, you have your first customer here sir.

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:58:58 +0000

Tom Leher was a savant. On another site, I recently wrote that the alcoholic country singer George Jones who sang about his life of whisky and women, was more authentic than the blind folk singer Doc Watson who pretended to have ridden a Tennessee Stud. I was having thoughts about the mortality of singers whom I had admired (including Watson) during my youth.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:45:30 +0000

That’s worth looking into, isn’t it? Art for the people!

(Which reminds me – didn’t Tom Lehrer point out that “the reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by…the people“?

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:43:05 +0000

I am seriously considering coming out of retirement to found a Macondo Trolley Tour company. Buendia, ladies an’ chentelmen, boys hand girls….” We have about four or five stops to make at Macondo Banana Massacre Field alone: Tommy, the inadequate parking, the empty storefronts and shop(pe)s, the site of the tumultuous anti-Che Guillen riots, and now, the sales office. From there, we proceed deep into Little Havana to see the Elian Gonzalez federal rescue memorial, thence on to the MacArthur causeway for the site of the recent “High Noon of the Living Dead” naked cannibal attack…..

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:42:58 +0000

Tell me the good people of Miami are not on the hook for Tommy? ‘Cause if they are, then that is a far greater crime than the covering of pillows, office furniture and drapes.

By: aceshigh11

aceshigh11 — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:39:59 +0000

These public-private partnerships can be really infuriating.

Bigshot business owners are the first to whine about onerous regulations and taxes, and yet they try to foist as many of their expenses as they can on the public, or ask for a bailout when the deal goes bad.

I realize that there is often a very positive economic effect to an area when a new arena or stadium is built, but that still doesn’t justify publicly subsidizing their construction when the team owners have more than enough resources to do it on their own.