Comment 45175

By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted August 08, 2010 at 18:03:03

Mr Young is quick to cite "experts" but he won't tell us which ones and he has yet to produce a single piece of paper to substantiate his claims. What has happened here is Mr Young has drawn deeply from the mug of Kool Aid that Scott Mitchell has been placing in front of him. This isn't about the TiCats not being viable at the West Harbour. This is about them securing a 10 year minimum monopoly over revenues generated by a stadium built with OUR money in a location of THEIR choosing and charging you me and the gate post for every single thing in their "driveway to driveway experience".

Can't you just see it? Come early and for only $30 you can have preferred parking in THE CARMEN'S TAILGATE ZONE, brought to you by CARMEN'S. Where you can enjoy delicious $10 sausage on a bun and ice cold $13 watered down beer on our brand new 45C paved parking lot. (NO PERSONAL FOOD, DRINK ,COOLERS OR BBQ'S PERMITTED).

That's what this is about. Period. They are trying to become MLSE lite and think we are all too stupid to realize it and they want to bankroll their enterprise with our money to give themselves a captive audience in a stadium built in a place where it will benefit no one else but the Hamilton Tiger Cats.

Don't get me wrong. I am a diehard Tiger Cat fan. I'm also an avowed capitalist. But I would never support getting rich on the public dime and at the expense of the public good. Mr Young needs to stick his head in a bucket of ice water, shake the cob webs out and give this a long hard rethink. He can still come out smelling like roses here by jettisoning the tired old mantra of "lets build it in the burbs" and embracing true vision and city building.

Cheers

Greg Galante

Hamilton

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