Comments on: It Pays To Be The Only Game In Town

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:08:03 +0000

Someone told me La Socialista reported last week that Coble had been successful in running the Blowfish out of town. From what I can find online, that appears to be false. Blowfish games are great. $5/ticket. $1/beers (before 8pm).

By: woohoo

woohoo — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:59:32 +0000

Wow a new stadium. If they win a few games can a new football stadium be far behind? Anything to banish (he he) the chicken curse.

But,just what is that tin shack behind the home plate end of the new cockpit?

By: sclawyerIII

sclawyerIII — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:36:48 +0000

If Minor League baseball or any other sport is viable in Columbia then I’m sure that some young capitalist will take advantage of that.

However, asking the University to construct and share facilities for the benefit of professional teams on their terms is ridiculous.

By: Palmetto_Native

Palmetto_Native — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:26:21 +0000

As I recall, the Bombers demanded a new stadium be built in Columbia for them at taxpayer expense. They refused to pay for it.

After negotiations fell apart, then then moved to Greenville where they coughed up $10 million from their own pockets….

Certainly you arent suggesting that tax dollars should be spent on private sports stadiums, are you? Sounds like the folk at USC knew what the game was, and they refused to play it. And it sounds like the Bombers wanted out of Columbia anyway, and made a “situation” out of nothing so that they could blame it on the University.

By: CLEMSON>USC

CLEMSON>USC — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:13:36 +0000

Just blame it on Clemson — I’m sure it’s their fault in some way or another!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:25:08 +0000

Maybe it makes sense that Columbia doesn’t have any minor league teams. Aall the SC cities that currently have minor league baseball–Greenville, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Fort Mill–are places where people actually WANT to live. As they say, if you are not somehow connected to either of Columbia’s two bloated bureaucracies, the (mediocre at best) state university or (ass-backwards) state government, what reason could you have to want to be in Columbia?

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:24:19 +0000

Why does Carolina have to be responsible for providing minor league sports in Columbia? Carolina does plenty for the City. The City decided back in the Holderman days that the city needed a fine arts center sufficient to hold larger audiences. So Carolina went out and raised money to build the Koger Center. The City never came through with their contribution, leaving Carolina holding the bag for the whole amount. Then the City decided we “needed” to have the Carolina Panthers come use Williams Brice Stadium fort heir first season. Mike McGee made a good decision to pass on that “offer” because the Panthers weren’t really interested in actually paying for even the wear and tear on the facility. Then we had Minor league Hockey. Carolina had to build not only a new arena, that they didn’t really want to build at the time, but had to make it hockey and arena football friendly. But the City said they needed it to so they could build a new convention center. So Carolina built it. Then the hockey team couldn’t afford to pay the power bill for the Colonial Center that it “needed” so much. So they were happy to go back and use the Coliseum. Turns out they didn’t want to pay the power bill or the security costs there either!!! They wanted the university subsidize these costs and give the team the concessions and parking money. So them we wonder why Carolina would be soooo reticent to give over use of its park, which creates all kinds of problems since major league baseball requires minor league teams to have control over scheduling of their parks. Inevitably Carolina would get screwed in that issue as well. Turns out, the minor league baseball team needed to also keep both the parking AND concession money for their games at the park, in addition to the gate of course, while Carolina would be in charge of all of the upkeep. Gee, don’t know why the university wouldn’t leap at that deal!!!!!

The thing is minor league teams don’t really make money if they aren’t heavily subsidized by some local or state govt agency. The city of cola didn’t want to have to subsidize the costs, so they tried to pass the costs to Carolina. You should do more reasearch before buying La Socialista’s spin on the issue.

By: Toyota Kawaski

Toyota Kawaski — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:01:34 +0000

sub-A ball its a wooden bat college summer league get it right dumb ass it not professional ball.Most the players sent are not even stars on there collegiate teams real good college talent plays in the cape cod league.Stick to crappy political rumor reporting.

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:54:50 +0000

JC-

Really? Because we were just accused of sucking up to South Carolina at the expense of Clempsun.

We are happy to praise both schools if they ever get it right.

-FITS

By: JC

JC — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:34:23 +0000

I smell sCUm (a tater hillbilly)

I don’t believe I have ever seen a positive article about USC on this site.