Comment 53444

By ProLine (anonymous) | Posted December 21, 2010 at 11:50:48

The Ti-Cats definitely bet the farm on this one, and I don't think they'll be able to hail-mary this ConfedPark proposal last minute. Too much badly needed public money is dangling for a project that only benefits a private interest and its overly romantic fans (who insist on promoting the hare-brained schemes meant to enrich a tiny local-sports "elite").

Well, Ti-Cats defenders, who have been endlessly predicting that each new made-up-as-Young-goes-along project will be "the one," when will you be ready to admit that we, as taxpayers, can't be so eager to throw away our money on a 130-year old Hamilton's icon representing Hamilton's former glory?

After watching site after site fall off the ever-expanding list, don't you worry at all about choosing a site at the very last minute, especially one that council has ALREADY shot down?

Can you see how to many people this represents a choice between a failing Hamilton business and a chance to reinvest in any number of other more important initiatives, like remediating poisoned lands, fixing collapsing infrastructure, and investing in the city services that are used by thousands every day, not just ticket-buyers, 10 days a year.

But what I think speaks louder than any other arguments offered in the past year is the absolute silence we heard from any potential investors on the CP site. This failure by the Cats to drum up any support for their gamble at CP is damning evidence that the enterprise is probably not viable, and leaves these last, lame grasps for Confed so sad to watch.

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