Hey, Billy boy! You can take your want for taxpayers money for your bigger and shinier screens and shove them up your back end.

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  4. Move to East St Louis. I don’t fucking care. It’d be nice to be closer to the strip clubs after the game for the players too I’d imagine.

  5. Relatively speaking, the ballpark just received upgrades…? And it’s certainly the most up to date location in the city by a country mile – public funds can and should be used to modernize virtually anything else?

  7. Maybe, just a fucking thought here, they could spend some money to improve the team first to get a competitive roster on the field.

  8. I fucking hate our team owners. “But x team has way worse owners” okay how bout they’re all the worst

  9. I honestly don’t even care anymore. Move the team to Illinois if you want. Billionaires can all go fuck themselves and die.

  10. I’m all for enhancing the experience at the stadium, but let’s not forget to fill the seats too.

  12. These owners are all the same. Stadium upgrades are part of any business capital investments to provide a product and service.

    I just looked it up. Purchased Cardinals for $150 M in 1996, franchise is valued now at $2.55 B. Operating revenue $374 M in 2025, operating profit estimated at $85 M.

  14. DB3 is incredibly tone deaf. Our franchise has suffered because of him. At least his dad was aggressive and cared about the on field product. This dude cares only about his wallet and it SUCKS.

  15. 20 years is nothing for a stadium like that. It’s literally steel, concrete and brick. Minor upgrades won’t bring anyone in. Winning will. Cheaper tickets (along with more winning) will even more. People who aren’t strapped by the gate prices will spend money at concessions, etc. I’m not a marketing or “business” person yet somehow I understand more than he does.

  16. I’m a Cardinals fan living in Portland so the getting a team chatter happens once in a while. I’d love a team here but I have zero interest in any of it being taxpayer funded.

  19. What more can you do to make the stadium better? This will consist of more boxes so he can make money off rich people and the average Joe will never get to use the benefits.

    That’s why Jackson County told Clark Hunt to get fucked. All his wanted upgrades to Arrowhead did nothing for the average fan.

  23. Every new stadium upgrade in recent years is just more luxury suites and more screens for ads.

    There’s almost no upgrading of the average Fan’s experience these days.

    Disclaimer being that I just go there to have a beer and watch baseball and DGAF about the 93 different overpriced food options.

  25. If tax payers are going to give teams money then the tax payers need to have equivalent ownership of the team. This would instantly stop these owners from requesting tax payers dollars.

  28. So I do think the stadium could use upgrades. In now way should taxpayers be contributing money by issuing bonds. Maybe, maybe, I could see a slight TIFF district or something, but even that is a pretty big maybe.

  29. horseshit.

    nothing wrong in that stadium except they product they put on the field

  30. I really think that sale followed by relocation is the end game.

    Step 1-Strip the club payroll of all long term payroll obligations, even if it costs upfront money: CHECK

    Step 2-Get rid of arb players that are good and will cost money like Donovan, etc, replace with minor leaguers and castoffs: IN PROGRESS

    Step 3- demand unrealistic, taxpayer-funded stadium or upgrades: Now in progress

    Step 4-Alienate fanbase, tank like the White Sox and Rockies, start drawing 3000 fans per game-NEXT STEP

    Step 5- Use the above to get approval to sell to out of town interests that will move the team to their hometown, like the Bennetts did to the Seattle Supersonics>>OKC Thunder I now live in Seattle metro, and had a front row seat to this. Most likely destinations are Nashville or Charlotte, NC

  31. Get fucked Bill. Move the team and try to recoup on Ballpark Village then. I actually want to see you try.

    Or do the smart thing and sell the team now. You haven’t yet completely destroyed the franchise value. Sell now before it gets even worse.

  39. Running the team in the ground with poor decisions and then asking for handouts. How about they can get fucked.

  42. I could care less where the Cardinals are in future years. Go to Illinois. Go to South Dakota.

    If they want to own the team, then own the team. Don’t come to taxpayers and ask us to
    foot the bill. I’ve got taxpayer funded sports team fatigue.

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