Saturday, October 28, 2006
 
Cardinals Provide Hangover For World Series Win
Last night, while watching the postgame celebrations, the Fox commentator stuck a microphone in the face of Bill DeWitt, business frontmn for the St. Louis Cardinals. After he finished his planned platitudes, I quipped in a mocking voice, "And can we have $100 million dollars?"

Well, like so much humor, this was unfortunately on the money, so to speak:
    The Cardinals owners, their developer partner and city officials capitalized on the World Series euphoria Friday as they unveiled a model of the Ballpark Village project they hope will change the face of downtown.
Fortunately, elected officials remain resolute, unaffected by trying to latch on to the ephemeral success of a professional sporting event by determining public policy to support a freakin' pastime run by a for-profit entity:
    "It is much bigger and better than what was originally talked about," St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said at a news conference Friday afternoon. The $387 million development would rely on more than $100 million in public funds to finance the project.
Oh, well, maybe not.


- posted by Brian J. @ 10:25 AM
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