Anyone can make the poll come out in their favor. It's how you ask the question. |
I think it's passing this year. |
I think the developers have found a flaw in the law and crawled through the crack. The flaw is the unsolicited offer. |
If we have one bad food incident, it would take us a decade to overcome the bad publicity. |
If we have only one incident or outbreak in Florida, that would likely trigger national attention and have a chilling effect on the tourism industry. |
Last year we did this bill, and it became a train. This year, we hope to just have a home run. |
Obviously, under current statutes cases are being dropped. That's the Legislature's fault. We weren't very clear. |
Our competitor is the Cactus League in Arizona, and they are well aware of the contracts that are expiring (in Florida). |
Spring training brings $450 million a year to Florida. We built the field of dreams and they came. Now we need to fund the maintenance of the facilities or they will go. Let's keep baseball in Florida. |
The law reads that it would have to financially benefit only him. It doesn't benefit only him. It benefits large groups of developers. |
There's always this preconceived notion that paying for sports with tax dollars is frivolous. It's the business that Florida's in, where I always like to say we're kind of the glamour business. |
These are senior citizens that don't want to be bothered at this time of their life with fighting the Florida Legislature, and this is what they are doing on a sunny Saturday. |
We built the field of dreams and they came. We now need to fund the maintenance of facilities or they will go. |
We built the field of dreams, and they came. |
We did this study to see what is the economic impact in sports, with baseball in mind. While baseball is a good money generator, the surprise of this report is the biggest money raiser seems to be golf and tennis events. |