softball downtown

so a response from Jimmy is to blame for this installment. Jimmy has sent out this comment to both me and our beaver team "I don't know what to think about the softball field going up at ballpark village, it is either the best idea or the worst idea ever". Let me take a stab at it Jimmy.

If those are my two options, I am going to have to go with best idea ever. It is a cheap way to dress up a vacant lot - and it will look like it is supposed to be there. Many other teams have created softball/little leage/wiffle ball fields where their old stadium once sat. I think of Milwaukee for instance, there is a field on the old location of County Stadium. We are going to have national media coverage of Busch stadium for the first half of the season, and this will dress up the goodyear blimp shots a little.

Would we rather there be a village on this location? Of course! Let's be honest, no one is giving out loans right now so if this village were to be built on the dollars that Missourians have paid in taxes, there would be few residents - both businesses and people. So...we can build a village that will not make money or we can make something somewhat productive out of the land temporarily and let people enjoy it.

Personally I think it would be fun to play a softball game downtown under the shadow of Busch. You bet that I will call to find out rates and times that are available. I can't beleive for a second that the owners of the Cardinals are trying to stick it to St. Louis fans by not building the Village. These are business owners that know that building this would not work now. These are the times that we live in, give them the benefit of the doubt and then step up and take you swings at the location of old Busch's homeplate.