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re: The ATL Thread: Offseason Edition
Posted on 12/24/14 at 11:16 am to Wally Sparks
Posted on 12/24/14 at 11:16 am to Wally Sparks
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Ted was gone from the Braves years before TW sold the team.
yea so that's not why TW had the team to sell?
The Braves wanted the stadium to be kept up to top pro standards, and we know the city oh lanta is more interested in lining their own pockets.
Pretty dam simple,
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Posted on 12/24/14 at 1:04 pm to Jagd Tiger
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yea so that's not why TW had the team to sell?
I thought you were implying that Ted was still at Turner Broadcasting/TW at the time of the sale to LM.
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The Braves wanted the stadium to be kept up to top pro standards, and we know the city oh lanta is more interested in lining their own pockets.
That was not the situation here. The Braves wanted total control of the land around the stadium (for free), the ability to bid on their own request for proposal (which is against Georgia law) and wanted the city to give them $200 million (which they couldn't have done without taking from the rest of the city's general fund). It doesn't absolve the city of Atlanta from any blame (they could've done a better job banning gypsy parking lots and eased zoning in the neighborhood), but this wasn't a corruption issue.
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