done if JC had stayed…… How am I suppose to be grateful now to the man who brought baseball to the valley and spent it into bankruptcy 5 years later?

sure, we won a WS and Jerry got his money, thats it in a nutshell. he ran the team in the ground financially – partly im sure to win a championship, but dont kid yourself it was bc he wanted to make money and having a team on the playoff track increases his pocketbook. he was reckless and so greedy for that ring/money that he nearly bankrupted the organization and then skipped town before having to face the music.

since he left, the dbacks have been limited in their financial capabilities (ie this year not resigning randy johnson for 5 mil a year !! come on) and everyone assumes they current management doesnt know what they are doing and man it would be nice to have jerry back, ah the ignorance and irony.

this is the same guy who was able to get public funding to build a baseball only stadium – which in fact the citizens of this city and county did NOT vote on. it never came up in ballots like most other cities, ie marlins, where it could be shot down; no it was sent somehow to a committee of 6 people that made the decision to allow a 1/2 cent sales tax increase for said stadium.

do i really care about my estimated 30 dollars it cost me for stadium, no; but jerry (great with the suns) has been from day one with the dbacks involved with shady deals and unethical business tactics. this is supposedly the reason the dbacks have never had the all star game yet, almost every new stadium gets it within the first 5 years, we are going to be in our 13th year when i think we finally see it.

fox sports tried to ask hard questions of jerry about the stadium funding back in the early 00’s and he straight walked out the interview. i guess the adage the End justifies the Means fits this like a glove, and every phx sports fan backs has been hoodwinked by a WS ring.

as long as jerry stays away im a huge fan of the team :)

on the issue of the publicly funded baseball stadium – not a cent , not one cent has been paid back by the organization to the city. where can i go and get a loan from the public without there approval and not pay any part of it back for 12+ years. (publicly funded stadiums are the biggest joke, we cant afford to operate hospitals, schools, prisons, homeless shelters; but damn we can build a stadium that will be never be able to be used by the public, hmm)