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Mother’s milk
Jack McGrory belongs in jail. SDSU has no shame or standards.— April 20, 2017 1:25 a.m.
Secrecy shrouds Faulconer’s SoccerCity favors
Is there any doubt San Diego is on the path to yet another expensive lesson on the economics of sports shows? By manipulating information and access, and with the eager assistance of TV news, the UT, and boosters, the oligarchs with suck money from the city coffers directly into their own pockets. Anyone opposing the theft is labeled "obstructionist". ...and in twenty years, another massive hole in the accounts of the city must be backfilled with tax payer money, further reducing services and safety for the public. That's exactly what happened with the stadium and ballpark in the late nineties. You can draw a direct line to today's infrastructure and retirement deficits to John Moores, Jack McGrory, Susan Golding and subsequent mayors putting sports before the public good, and turning a blind eye to blatant corruption. Literally, Jack and Susan stopped paying into the pension fund to give the money to John Moores, issued flawed ballpark bonds, and vilified anyone who called their scam into question. (Jack McGrory, former City Manager who prostituted himself to John Moores was quoted in the UT calling me an "urban terrorist" for saying, in council chambers during public comment, that he was corrupt...I wish he had sued me for libel so I could have shown the evidence to a judge, the coward!) The bright smile with a hand up his throat who passes for mayor today is following this shameful tradition. Now it's soccer that's going to lift the city to the stars, while tunneling away the subterranean foundations of future prosperity and eroding democracy. So predictable, so sad, and so on, and on, ad nauseum.— March 10, 2017 9:54 p.m.
Could Major League Soccer kick the city where it counts?
Still in Prague. Still in IT. Still following what happens in my home town. Still amazed at the open theft of public property by the San Diego oligarchs. If only sports were recognized as the realm of children, and given appropriate respect for its role in society. A fun distraction, gets kids running around, a friendly competition. When sports shows become a partner of government, promoted by schools at the expense of education, partner of military recruiting, money-rolling morally bankrupt politicians, it has exceeded the bounds of its natural place and must be opposed, exposed, denounced, and denuded of its undeserved and dangerous prominence in public life.— March 10, 2017 9:32 p.m.
Could Major League Soccer kick the city where it counts?
You've pointed to the underlying reason the UT will disappear very soon. The UT has survived on the revenues of sports related advertising (and content) for a generation. Hence its dishonest all out assaults on anyone opposing sports subsidies. Now it has lost the Chargers, and the reason most paid for the paper. No one reads the UT for its insights on economics, politics, or foreign affairs.— March 10, 2017 9:28 p.m.
Could Major League Soccer kick the city where it counts?
Imagine a university that invested in education instead of sports shows. Imagine a city that didn't waste tax money subsidizing sports shows. Imagine a country that didn't divert attention and assert nationalism through sports shows. Sports shows make people stupid, complacent, and easy to manipulate. That's why serial con men like John Moores buy them, trading on the misguided love of the plebes for a team to mask a grand scale robbery of the public. Sports shows distract from important issues, and provide a convenient source of shock troops. Oppose a stadium give away and you'll have burly groups of fans threatening you online and in person. Every fascist movement in history has had the rabid support of sports fans in the vanguard of their most violent mobs. A nation than pours money, prestige and attention to sports shows is squandering opportunities, deluding itself with self-congratulatory propagandist slogans, and dooming a too large percentage of its young people to life long injuries in the name of entertaining the fans. Sports shows, games, school subverting entertainments that rely on abusing the bodies of young men to entertain businessmen and sell beer...are no more moral than strip clubs. But at least in strip clubs the entertainers are more likely to finish their education and be functionally literate than the average college football scholarship-serf. San Diego had reason to be proud, rejecting the extortion of the Spanos clan. For the so-called leaders of the city to to immediately rush into throwing more money at more sports shows is shameful.— March 10, 2017 5:58 a.m.
The unliking of the SD-LA Chargers
"San Diego, Over Chargers! "San Diego! "Over Chargers!"— January 13, 2017 1:31 p.m.
City to block mayor's testimony in accident case?
What kind of council representative wouldn't have seen this for himself, driving around his own district? What kind of man would have ignored it, when he had the power with a few staffer phone calls to fix it? Sadly, it's not until a child, visiting the city, is tragically killed that finally something is done. San Diego will be a better city when birdman Faulconer has flown away.— January 13, 2017 5:07 a.m.
Spanos and SD's sweetheart Chargers Park deal
San Diego's shame is that Jack McGrory, whose corruption is legendary and well known, has never been indicted, much less prosecuted for his betrayal of the city. As much as he bent over backward to help the Chargers pick the public's pocket, he really hit his stride when he went to work for the Padres and used his insider knowledge to rig the contract for the ballpark in the favor of world class grifter John Moores. All this is public record. Anyone paying attention knows McGrory is a crook. Yet he's not just roaming free, presenting a continuing danger to the public. Some sniveling stenographers pretending to be journalists now call him a "leader" or even a "philanthropist". Until the likes of Jack McGrory and John Moores face justice, San Diego remains a pathetic delusional abused spouse, professing love for the ones who tortured the city.— January 13, 2017 4:58 a.m.
Today the saddest day ever for Chargers fans
Best way to do that...target Aztecs football next. Football contributes nothing valuable to a community, while causing great financial, psychological, and physical harm. No more public money for a game that permanently injures, and kills, dozens of kids every year. Going after Aztecs football, a wasteful, losing, pointless appendage grafted onto what is supposed to be an educational institution, is the next step.— January 13, 2017 4:45 a.m.
Today the saddest day ever for Chargers fans
Fat, lazy, stupid football fans? They can't hardly get off the couch, except to get sloshed at a sports bar with other athletics supporters. Chargers fans have threatened, bullied, and made childish demands from the rest of San Diego for far too long. We've taken over from you delinquents now, and you can play your debilitating games elsewhere. You don't like it, move to L.A. fools.— January 13, 2017 4:42 a.m.