[Buckeye McFrog]

unlike Pittsburgh, where the voters and taxpayers shouted a deafening NO! to baseball foolishness...and the local pols went ahead and did it anyway....

[steve-b]

The baseball bums (in the sense of "disreputable folks who asks for handouts from people who work for a living") are getting ever more arrogant.

Jerry Burkot, executive director of Collins' Virginia Baseball Club, said yesterday he's confident the financing plan for a ballpark in Northern Virginia will be reworked to be 100 percent publicly funded.

If you live in Virginia, I'd suggest contacting your representative and inform him that any such plan (if it exists outside Mr. Burkot's smoke and mirror chamber) is absolutely unacceptable.

[Wolfie]

unlike Pittsburgh, where the voters and taxpayers shouted a deafening NO! to baseball foolishness...and the local pols went ahead and did it anyway....

Not true. Pittsbugh voted on raising the sales tax to fund the stadium, not whether tax dollars should be used at all.