Vote in this poll if you actually live in Jackson county.
We've all shared our opinions in the other thread. But who gives a shit what somebody in Platte County or Johnson County or Phoenix or NYC thinks. We're all just noise. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower:
The whole, "Well the teams' didn't have a plan / half-assed" thing is a cop-out.
Let's not make this about the Chiefs, this is 100% about the Royals. Hell it's disgusting that the Chiefs considered being part and party to the Royals trying to scam the JACO residents with a team that isn't worth extending a mere 3/8ths cents sales tax to keep.
The bottom line is the Royals are proven losers year over year and they picked a bad year to try and blackmail the citizens of JACO. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
Fish tool Wolf to school yikes
The next time you are right about anything will be the first time. It’s OK Billay. If the Royals build a downtown stadium, I’m sure they’ll move the George Brett statue so you can still give homeless guys blowjobs next to it for $.50 a turn in order to afford your next bottle of Ripple. [Reply]
This is a loooong story (too long for me to copy and paste) that is worth the read. Talks about KC's current situation, but also has lots of details on stadium financing, economics, and how the Ballpark Village is doing and its impact on surrounding areas.
Originally Posted by Fish:
Oh shut up, Billay. It's not like that. There are no opposing sides here. Just offseason BS. I have a great deal of respect for LoneWolf.
You think I'm pussy? I dare you to stick your dick in this [Reply]
Originally Posted by LoneWolf:
The next time you are right about anything will be the first time. It’s OK Billay. If the Royals build a downtown stadium, I’m sure they’ll move the George Brett statue so you can still give homeless guys blowjobs next to it for $.50 a turn in order to afford your next bottle of Ripple.
Ha I was the only one in here saying the city would likely step up and finance the stadium after No won. All the townies were talking about how the teams are moving lmao [Reply]
Originally Posted by siberian khatru:
This is a loooong story (too long for me to copy and paste) that is worth the read. Talks about KC's current situation, but also has lots of details on stadium financing, economics, and how the Ballpark Village is doing and its impact on surrounding areas.
We went to St. Louis over the twins' spring break and stayed at the Hilton at the ballpark.
Downtown St. Louis has some advantages I wish we had here (Namely, the Metrolink, which is fast, clean, and easy to use. But there's also a really cool fucking NATIONAL PARK). But that downtown is a real dead zone.
It is fundamentally different from Kansas City in that St. Louis has not been able to keep businesses and people living in and around the revitalized areas.
There are a lot of factors in that, among them a more intense city/suburb divide in St. Louis because of the suburbs being in their own county.
The reputation for St. Louis city and the area around the ballpark is much worse than the rep for, say, Power and Light or the area around the T-Mobile Center. Which is really unwarranted. I felt perfectly safe walking to and from the hotel to the parking garage, we walked to the Arch and the MetroLink station, and I walked about 3/4 of a mile to a grocery store one afternoon, and never once felt uneasy or unsafe.
My colleagues from St. Louis all warned me about how terrible and dangerous the whole area was, though. Typical suburban fear of the city, but to the extreme, seems to permeate the area. My wife's friends from there were aghast at what we had done and couldn't believe we hadn't been murdered or something. [Reply]
Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish:
I’ve been working in the area since December and it’s much, much more dangerous than you think. Game day? Yea, you’re good.
Non game days? Just like the guy who owns the “luxury apartment” overlooking the stadium, he doesn’t venture out.
There were zero games going on while we were there.
Wasn't really venturing out at night because when you have two eight-year-olds, you're doing bedtime by 9 every night, anyway. But I did have to move around a little bit after dark and didn't observe or experience anything shady or discomforting. [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
There were zero games going on while we were there.
Wasn't really venturing out at night because when you have two eight-year-olds, you're doing bedtime by 9 every night, anyway. But I did have to move around a little bit after dark and didn't observe or experience anything shady or discomforting.
Living in the city I can give you all some advice. See a panhandler? Don't even make eye contact, see a bunch of "teens" leaving trouble ain't far behind, see a fight? GTFO ASAP gunplay isn't far behind [Reply]
Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower:
The whole, "Well the teams' didn't have a plan / half-assed" thing is a cop-out.
It is not. It is really strange that you guys think we should all just hand over piles of cash for an organization that did not even begin to through the motions to explain how it would be used and it how it would impact the community. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Titty Meat:
Living in the city I can give you all some advice. See a panhandler? Don't even make eye contact, see a bunch of "teens" leaving trouble ain't far behind, see a fight? GTFO ASAP gunplay isn't far behind
I live in KCMO. But yes, I know those things. [Reply]