Comment 46195

By Robbie K (anonymous) | Posted August 24, 2010 at 16:29:52

@HamiltonFan, really? we coulden't tell! ;)

I like Bob as well, but not particularly for this situation. I don't blame him, "but he ain't a helping". At the end of the day owning a CFL team is a money losing venture no matter how you look at it. They just don't make money. Bob's only hope is to leverage other types of investments to spin off of that (hence the parking and proposed other items he wanted to build).

To me that proves Bob realizes that you can directly tie some revenue to the activities around (but not at the stadium). I have no problem with him doing so, just not government cash. If he wants to get into the Big Box retail type stuff, by all means, go ahead. But what he is asking the city to do is to place the stadium in such a location that he can maximize all that. He can take some of his cash and put a power center whereever he wants, no need for us.

The weird thing I don't get about all this WH-EM crap is that this mediator came in, and pretty much represented POLAR opposites of each other. WH is all City (according to BY) and EM is totally TiCats (according to the city). I look at it this way, if two people are getting divorced, and one wants "everything" , a mediator looks for some kind of common ground. Essentially what he guy did was say "Oh yeah? you think your getting 9 million, nuts to that, how about the OTHER person gets 9 million, how you like dem apples. Those are your two choices. Go fight."

Sure, give them EM, WH, and something in the MIDDLE and see how it plays out. For example, something downtown but NOT WH.

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