Raise the Hammer

The Ticats hung Don out to dry up there. Scott Mitchell should be the one up there. Not sure why he just sits whith his head in his hands, looking pissed off while their 'hired gun' is under attack. You think the Cats would have briefed him on all the 'right' things to say.

Listening to McHattie, I miss living in Ward 1. Fred's reaction to the parking isuse was my favorite part of the meeting. You could feel the tension form the entire council table and the chamber. 'Are you kidding me?'

I spent some time with the Ivor Wynne Stadium Scrapbook last week. Four things caught my attention:

1. Opening up to the first page of the six volume scrapbook, dated 1957. 'Build a new stadium in Kings Forest or upgrade Ivor Wynne'; and so the trend continues to present day.

2. Bob Young talked about a Fenway Park vision for Ivor Wynne back in 2004. Wonder what happened to that vision? $$$ a 'new' would bring perhaps?

3. The OMB forced the City of Hamilton to hold a vote by the people, becuase of the amount of un-budgeted money council was about to spend on rebuilding the north stands. A citizens group fought it and lost, but a city wide vote was held. A group of 60 people petitioned and even hired a lawyer to represent them. Wouldnt' a vote be nice right now. At least we would know where we stand with regards to spending all this money on a new stadium, or restore Ivor Wynne. You would probably have to have quite a few boxes to check so people could say yes build it, but at West Harbour, or CP is fine or ...

1. The Ballard years should be read into. His game was a little dirtier, but there are some similarities from a stadium in Burlington, Milton, moving the Cats to Varsity Stadium in Toronto, etc.

Here is a link to some highlights from the scrapbook, as well as a few chosen articles. Take 10-15 minutes just to look at the titles of the articles.

Comment edited by lawrence on 2010-10-04 09:55:59