Comments on: Veterans Memorial Stadium:Where Did It Go?

By: Easton Baseball Bats

Easton Baseball Bats — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:27:57 +0000

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By: Mike Brewer

Mike Brewer — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:54:25 +0000

Just in from my pals in Phoenix. The Chicago White Sox intend to host International Soccer Friendlies at their new stadium. They see this as a revenue source. Holy crap Batman, we have tried to get TEP to host soccer for 10 years. The answer is always a resounding and arrogant NO.
So the team snubs us and then takes our potential new revenues source! Mother of Mercy are we ever lacking in vision and foresight.
Did you know that the first game in the Cardinal Stadium was a sellout Soccer Match? Did you know the the Diamondback stadium has sold out three times now for Soccer games. Did you know that there were approximately 900,000 tickets sold at 4 different venues, in the past month. From Foxboro to the the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX for International Soccer games.
Yogi Bera once said, “cash is kinda like money ya know” Maybe we need Yogi to come to Tucson to remind us of this economic axiom.

By: Baseball Coach » Blog Archive » Baseball Coach

Baseball Coach » Blog Archive » Baseball Coach — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:12:15 +0000

[…] Veterans Memorial Stadium:Where Did It Go? – Tucson CitizenLate in 1997, prior to the completion of the Baseball facility known as Tucson Electric Park, it was still officially known as Veterans Memorial Stadium. That is the name that was sold to the voters. That is the name that was promised to the voters […]

By: Mike Brewer

Mike Brewer — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:02:41 +0000

Thanks Gail, nice to have some validation from the past. At least Veterans remember Veterans.

By: Gail H. Skinner

Gail H. Skinner — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:48:42 +0000

I was a representative on Tucson’s Veterans Affairs Council at the time that this was all being proposed and the Veterans Memorial Stadium was what we were told was the name. We were all asked to go back to our organizations and ask them to support the project. It was supposed to an honoring to all veterans and military living in Tucson and Pima county. How long that lasted. At least we have the Flag Memorial across the street.

By: Donovan Durband

Donovan Durband — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:29:06 +0000

Didn’t I read in a recent Arizona Daily Star article on the spring training debacle that the fees from the naming rights went to the White Sox and Diamondbacks, rather than the taxpayers of Pima County?
If true, the name was stripped from the veterans, not to pay the bills for the stadium, but to sweeten the deal for the teams.

So we got ten years of baseball and a new Chevron gas station out of it.

By: winnieo

winnieo — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:57:03 +0000

The first few years the stadium was open, they absolutely positively would not share their precious grass with any other sports. Looks like karma is biting the bb community where it hurts, and deservedly so.
I have nothing against baseball–I’m not much a sports enthusiastic at any rate. But that whole stadium had a fishy smell in it from the start.
(I suppose they are STILL running that air conditioning 24/7 to maintain that 65 degree interior. TEP has gotta get money from something.)
There are far too many legitimate needs in Tucson for this community to be dreaming of baseball fields. Give it up and use your time for something of value to humanity.

By: Cashgreen

Cashgreen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:33:17 +0000

Is it possible to get and publish the financial records of TEP? Might be some surprises.