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obstaclecorpse wrote:cry me a river! personally, i'm stoked baseball is coming here. the hogwash of why isn't that money being spent on the school system, etc... is such a joke. do you actually think the city has 600 million sitting in a shoebox trying to figure out how to spend it????? all of those problems have been here for a hell of a long time before this whole baseball thing and nobody said a fucking thing about getting them corrected. but now that the mostly moronic city counsel has the city's and the nation's attention, they want to get up on their soapbox and rant about the schools, poverty, roads, etc... if they really cared that much i would hope to think that something more would have been done for them up to this point. oh, and by the way, the majority of this money is coming directly from a stadium tax that people going to the games will pay on their tickets, food, beer, parking, merchandise, etc...