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St. Louis Cardinals owners plan to ask taxpayers to fund Busch Stadium renovations


These mother fuckers…

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  5. The Rangers just got a shiny new stadium, the Braves have semi recently got a shiny new stadium, the Royals might be getting one, and the A’s are eventually going to have a new one maybe so it’s only fair Dewitt gets some renovations. He’s not even asking for a new one./s

  9. Build a team that can draw in crowds by winning and make a deeper run into the playoffs, and you will make your money. If not, go piss up a rope.

  11. Nah, that would be a hard no from me. Dewitt already received public funding for ballpark village. Spend $ on the team, become contenders again, generate profits from tickets, concessions, and merchandise. Also, is he serious about asking for money now of all times with how little he has spent on the team comparatively to the other markets in the MLB? Good article.

  12. Good luck with that! Seriously, the DeWitt family should just sell the team. The tone deafness is growing by the year.

  13. I implore any STL resident to read the article and then do some research on the ROI of taxpayers funding stadiums. It’s a bad investment. Period. And there is really no way to argue otherwise. Don’t let these robber barons leverage your nostalgia and heart for money. Call their bluff.

  15. I really appreciate that this article points out the damage BPV did to other businesses in St. Louis.

  18. Didn’t the voters just say no to stuff in KC (and they have at least one good team)? And I assume he saw what happened with the Rams?

    Is he really that tone deaf?

  19. Maybe use some of that 25M between us and the cubbies in payroll first and then we can talk public funding.

    Edit: 50M

  20. First off, read the room. Secondly, I guarantee these renovations are just more expensive luxury areas and more add-ons meant for the wealthy at Busch. Don’t need em.

  21. These billionaires have absolutely no clue. When adjusted for inflation, the team’s payroll has steadily decreased over the past two decades, and that has shown on the field. And now they have the nerve to ask for more tax dollars?

  22. I don’t live there so I can’t vote on it, but I hope that every single person votes no on any free money for billionaires.

    Let ’em move somewhere else. Call that fucking bluff. They know they won’t do it and are just playing people for complete suckers. The stadium is 100% fine. The area around it is “fine” relative to the area which nothing the team would ask for would fix anyway, there’s a bigger problem with St. Louis right now that baseball can’t solve and spending half a billion dollars on whatever is good for the billionaires isn’t going to help the people who aren’t billionaires at all.

  27. No public funding for pro sports facilities, ever. I don’t live there so can’t vote on it but everyone who does should vote no, preferably while raising their middle fingers as high as possible in the general direction of DeWitt.

  28. obligatory…fuck kroenke and fuck any owner who does this…..you have enough $$, stop asking the public to fund your business.

  29. So you can’t spend significant FA money to keep the team competitive with the rest of the NL, and you also can’t afford to renovate the stadium out of pocket, and also prices at the stadium are going up, and also you have one of the most loyal and dedicated fanbases in sports supporting you financially.

    edit: and also you already received public funding for Ball Park Village which significantly hurt local business.

  30. FUCK NO!!!!! Move the team to Oakland.

    Dewitt would never take a loss on ballpark village.

  32. Spend your own money DeWitt. They’re really hell-bent on burning up their goodwill with fans as fast as possible.

  34. Bill DeWitt Jr sucks.

    Refuses to let the team’s payroll even get close to the luxury tax as he does not want to pay it at all for any reason. Said during the CBA negotiations that “baseball isn’t very profitable” and basically called the players demands unrealistic. And now is holding out his hand asking for money for stadium renovations.

    Just terrible. Sell.

  35. I agree the stadium needs significant upgrades, particularly for the players, I’m glad the DeWitts see it.

    Now they can add it to the list of problems they have and pay up.

  37. The only way that I would ever vote for for anything like this is if I was getting free tickets for every single year that my taxes were going into the stadium. Of course, we know that that will never happen.

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