New Baseball Stadium Question

[Ignignokt]

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but in many cases the team reaps most or all of the reward and the taxpayer gets reamed. Then, after fielding losing team after losing team, the owners threaten to move if the city doesn't build them another new stadium with an even sweeter deal. It has happened with all three franchises in Seattle and my loyalty to the teams here is hovering around nonexistent.

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Sure, every time you pass by SoDo you'll remember how they reamed us, but if you ever try to collect UI you'll remember how Boeing reamed us (with the same threat - make it cheaper for them to lay off people or they'll move).

Teams are businesses. Businesses do this crap all the time. You just don't read about it as much when it's not sexy like a stadium.