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More ballpark lies from Oregon this time
What readers in San Diego may find interesting is that almost none of the issues raised by Don Bauder has been reported on in Portland's mainstream print and television media. Even Portland's Pulitzer Prize-winning alternative weekly, the Willamette Week, won't touch this story. Political sex scandals get reported (which is how they got their Pulitzer), but real news doesn't. So, thank you, Don Bauder. And there's much more to this story than the mess in Beaverton. In Portland, the plan is to renovate PGE Park for Major League Soccer, even though the MLS "Venue Design Guide" clearly indicates that PGE Park can't meet -- or even come close to meeting -- the minimum MLS requirements for restrooms, seating, and food concession stands. This document is dated September 1, 2008, but it was never made public prior to the city council voting to approve the project in March. In fact, it wasn't made public until September, 2009, and now MLS officials and city officials are claiming that somehow these requirements aren't applicable to PGE Park, and are now, all of a sudden, in the process of being "revised." You'd think something like that would get media attention in Portland, but it hasn't. In some ways, the situation is actually comical. Over half of PGE Park's seats are bench-style seats, which allocate only 18" per seat location, while the average adult measures 21" wide at the shoulders. That's not a problem now, because the minor league soccer team rarely draws more than 50% of capacity. But with MLS expected to draw crowds at or near capacity, for every seven tickets sold, only six people would actually fit, on average, in any given row with bench-style seats. I brought this to the attention of an editor at the Oregonian, Portland's major daily, and she replied that their reporter had checked out my "baseless accusation" and found nothing amiss.— October 30, 2009 8:14 a.m.