SPRING TRAINING BASEBALL UPDATE

SPRING TRAINING BASEBALL UPDATE

By the way, don’t get mad at me for this picture, which is what pops up for this article! OK we have the last one we might have for a while since the Legislature is over for the year now. It is very anti-climactic too in my humble opinion. All that happened at the wire last week was the passing of the bill to change the stadium financing from 37.5 years to 25 years. Another small development was allowing an existing facility to expand to a two team facility. This would only come into play if teams were considering the Mets site in Port St. Lucie, and that is not the case. Also $20 million would be available over 20 years for a one team facility. Again, it is mentioned that the sites in West Palm Beach at 45^th St. and the site at John Prince Park in Lake Worth are the front runners, with the site in West Palm having the edge since it is county owned and there are no objections from area residents. They also don’t have to work a deal with Palm Beach State to do anything either, like they would with the Lake Worth site. So now that the political drama is done, when will a decision come on this?? There is still a sense of urgency here since the Nationals have moved to cancel their existing lease by the end of the year. So they probably want to announce a new home soon, even if they won’t be able to move into it for some time since it would need to be built. So it comes down to 2 impoverished and struggling cities, Lake Worth and West Palm Beach, and only one can win. If this were something that could be bet upon all my money would go to West Palm, even though history says Lake Worth will win. I bet we will get some sort of answer by the end of the summer, in August or September. Stay tuned, you will have another update as soon as it is available. As always thanks for reading and have a great day.