The stadium does not make the CWS here in Omaha
Posted by angela on 03/16/08 in Domestic Ramblings
I don’t know how my fellow huskers feel about this but Adam sure has got a point, and he made his point well.
If we don’t do something we will definitely lose the CWS.
My friend Gayla (the gal that has been keeping an eye on my blogs for me while I’m gone) actually lives in Indiana.
I don’t know what it is about Indiana but we keep swapping statistics with them.
First it was Indiana that had the most cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the entire USA. Then they changed it to Nebraska having the most sexually transmitted diseases in the nation.
Omaha has the CWS. If we lose the CWS contract, Indianapolis will get it! WHAT’s UP WITH THAT?
Gayla? Anybody out there care to chime in? I really don’t want to lose the CWS, do you?
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ptg | Mar 17, 2008 | Reply
Too bad that the major premise of the article pictured is a lie. Not building a new stadium does not automatically doom Omaha as the future CWS site. The NCAA hasn’t said it, it isn’t a fact. The story is a made up one based on the theory that the CWS people are so disingenuous that they tell Mike Fahey one thing in private and then say something different publicly. I prefer not to trust Mike Fahey over almost anyone else.
The threat of having the CWS leave Omaha is only a cheap fear tactic to give more overpriced work to Mr. Fahey’s biggest fans: the construction unions. Don;t be scared by their lies. Get the facts.
angela | Mar 18, 2008 | Reply
Are you saying that the CWS will stay here in Omaha if we keep it at the stadium we are currently using?
ptg | Mar 18, 2008 | Reply
The NCAA has never said they would move the CWS if we didn’t build a new stadium. Mayor Fahey and his cronies implied that the had. He also was less than honest about the fact that it was he that brought up the idea of a new ball park to the NCAA, not the other way around, as he implied.
Getting elected doesn’t give him carte blanche to squander huge chunks of the taxpayers’ money on public works, while not being honest about his real reasons for wanting to do so.
ptg | Mar 18, 2008 | Reply
I meant ‘dishonest’.
angela | Mar 19, 2008 | Reply
Didn’t we already dump tons of money into getting the seating increased around the stadium that we are currently using? That’s what upsets me. It seems like every time we finish dumping money into something it winds up not being good enough.
ptg | Mar 19, 2008 | Reply
Correct, Angela. That money wasn’t just dumped into the river; it went into the pockets of Fahey’s cronies and their union cohorts. Fahey needs to feed these constituents regularly, money spent last year won’t fatten the union workers this year or next. Like most appetites, the constuction firms and labor unions desire for more fat public works projects can never be permanently satisfied. There must always be a new project or Fahey is finished; these cats are his political base.
This mess ain’t about baseball or the few weeks the CWS is in town. Its about the distribution of tax money.