{"id":3331,"date":"2006-09-19T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2013-05-04T06:19:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T11:19:17","slug":"the-st-louis-cardinals-bring-st-louisians-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/the-st-louis-cardinals-bring-st-louisians-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Cardinals Bring St. Louisians Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought it?  Bill McClellan of the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> and I agree on something: the owners of the St. Louis Cardinals played the civic &#8220;leaders&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/columnists.nsf\/billmcclellan\/story\/A9B7A5C90667EB4D862571EA00321CFC?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">like ballpark organs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not so with a ballpark. If developers thought a Ballpark Village were a great idea, they would have built a village around the old ballpark. They didn&#8217;t. So when the Cardinal owners wanted some financial help for their new stadium, they promised &#8211; and put that promise in writing &#8211; that they&#8217;d also build a Ballpark Village. This would be a big plus for the revitalization of downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the word that yes, the Cardinal owners could live up to that promise, but the Village would be a lowercase sort of place: ballpark village. Doomed to failure. Who wants to live in ballpark village? On the other hand, the city could have something spectacular &#8211; three times the size of the original plan &#8211; but the taxpayers are going to have to help out again. Maybe $100 million or so worth of help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps these crony capitalists are serving a function for the greater good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought it? Bill McClellan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and I agree on something: the owners of the St. Louis Cardinals played the civic &#8220;leaders&#8221; like ballpark organs: Not so with a ballpark. If developers thought a Ballpark Village were a great idea, they would have built a village around the old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12709,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}