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MB923
You could have put Hillman in as 3B coach Cashman!!
Mikenmn
I can understand that places such as Florida gain revenues from having spring training, but it always amazes me that a multi-billion dollar industry and billionaire owners so often are able to redirect money that could have gone to basic services for ordinary citizens.
Dock_Elvis
Large corporations..the Marts of the world do this all the time.
Jack 17
More public money given out for no reason. As if the TIF money for STL didn’t show what a mess that is. Ballpark village turned from supposedly being restaurants/offices/etc into a giant bar owned by the Cardinals. So now it makes the Cardinals a lot of money, meanwhile the local independent bars nearby now suffer.
There should be requirements that at least 50% of the money is private money or something like that.
mlbh
The fact is that a lot of cities in Arizona and Florida are clamoring for a spring training site to come to them. They compete to lure the club there.
Ultimately, the bidding gets so competitive that some city agrees to pay a ton of money to help get the thing built.
The reason the cities want the site is that it then generates way more money to help improve the city (and the services in it) than the city ever spent luring the club there.
So stop yelling about tax dollars spent and think of them as tax dollars invested in generating more tax dollars.
slider32
Seems like all the teams will move to Arizona if they are smart, less travel time to games.
Flash Gordon
The problem is that it turns out to be a good investment for a select few and a mistake for the majority of tax payers. That’s a fact. Let multi million dollar businesses build their own stadiums and facilities.
Sky14
Is there any evidence that they are major revenue producers? $108 million is a hefty sum for a county to fork over especially for a little more than a month of exhibition baseball. It would seem that if they are such huge money producers teams wouldn’t be inclined to share their facilities.
Beersy 2
It is unfortunate that Plantier was let go as he seems as though he is a pretty good guy. He sure wasn’t given much to work with, but he got absolutely nothing out of any of the Padres hitters and did deserve his dismissal. Not quite sure how Powell didn’t end up with the same fate.
Lefty_Orioles_Fan
Palm Beach County has approved $108MM in public funding for a $135MM spring training
If that is the case, then if Palm Beach is making the Taxpayer pay for this, then tickets should be 5 bucks and parking should be five bucks like it is out in Arizona!
Or actually, we got away with not paying for parking a couple of times!
It is so much cheaper to go to a game in Arizona!
Out in Left Field
I am not surprised that Plantier was fired. Was always curious as to how a guy that was as bad of a hitter as Plantier got a job as a hitting coach. Bad average, no plate discipline and probably the worst batting stance ever. What was Byrnes thinking?
mlbh
While you don’t have to be a good player to be a great hitting coach (former-Yankees, now-Mets hitting coach Kevin Long is one of the best in the biz and he never cracked the majors), it is really odd they picked someone with such a bad approach.
And it’s clear from watching the Padres day in and day out as I do, that there is nobody doing an adequate job of helping them figure out what’s wrong with their collective and individual approach.
When you watch a guy like Jedd Gyorko stand a mile from the plate and waste half his at bats topping outer half breakers, you start to wonder why nothing ever changes.
SteveB
So……. Hillman is good enough to be in charge of the Yankees entire minor league system, but ISN’T good enough to be their bench coach?