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Originally Posted by Rail Claimore
I couldn't care less where the Braves move to: if Cobb wants to roll out the red carpet of dough (much to Tea Party chagrin), let them. The City of Atlanta can find better uses for those $100's of millions of dollars.
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You greatly expressed my sentiments. Especially when every generation or so, the Braves (or other professional sports enterprises) make request of the public coffers for their billion dollar enterprises. Turner Field was essentially a gift to the Braves after the Olympics - and a mere generation later they come asking for hundreds of millions of dollars of public money. I say let Cobb (or any other inner core county) share in the expenses of the big city - maybe Cobb can contribute toward Grady as well.
The Braves will still be marketing Atlanta - they are not going to be called the Smyrna Braves. Plus the city of Atlanta doesn't have to worry every 15 years or so about out-of-town, billion-dollar ownership requesting city financing for their endeavors and their multi-millionaire employees. However, unlike the Tea Party, I do feel like government plays a role in funding projects that benefit society as a whole. But like the mayor stated - I too will still be cheering for the
Atlanta Braves and even harder for the city of Atlanta.