Cubs want Angels fans to pay for their new Stadium.

by rjcicc on Mar 3, 2010 10:24 AM PST

Angel's brass calls plan to tax every spring training game tickets: "...fundamentally wrong to implement a tax on loyal baseball fans." Damn right it is!

State Rep. John McComish's bill would add a $1 surcharge to car-rental fees in Maricopa County and an 8 percent surcharge to all spring-training tickets. It's intended to generate $58 million that would finance bonds issued by the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority for a new Cubs complex.

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I don't really understand the headline you chose

But whatever.

I’m sure the Angels wouldn’t object to taxes and surcharges if they were used for Tempe Diablo.

However it is lame that the Doyers, Angels, et al have to let their fans be taxed to help another team. It ain’t like the Cubs are going to share future profits with them.

by Higz on Mar 3, 2010 11:03 AM PST reply actions

ha! I don't know

They want to make fans of all spring training teams pay for their stadium. That’s not extortion. Ill change it.

You are what you type.

by rjcicc on Mar 3, 2010 11:49 AM PST up reply actions

Seems more accurate.

I found the story interesting.

by Higz on Mar 3, 2010 12:03 PM PST up reply actions

I don't get the title either

The Dodgers, Angels, Reds and White Sox all boycotted a Cactus League mixer in protest over this move by the Cubs.

Maybe you mixed up your blue teams, rjcicc?

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by Commander_Nate on Mar 3, 2010 11:12 AM PST reply actions

Much as I hate the Doyers, it's the Cubs who are trying this, not the Doyers.

The Doyers joined the Halos, Red and White Sox in opposing this.

You might want to edit the fanpost title (yes, you can do that).

Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch

by red floyd on Mar 3, 2010 11:25 AM PST reply actions

no its the state of Arizona's idea, not the Cubs

sad to say, McComish is my representative – it gets press out here and lots of people hate this idea.
Put the tax on anybody flying in from or out to Chicago in March (and that will REALLY upset the White Sox fans and build more animosity. ) heheh.

by Rex Fregosi on Mar 3, 2010 6:10 PM PST up reply actions

It would be great to know whose idea it was

but there is no evidence that it was Arizona’s. Given the non-answers by billionaire Ricketts and McComish, I’d guess you’re probably wrong. Ricketts met with the powers that be to work out an arrangement before the bill was introduced. The Cubs also seems supremely confident that it will happen regardless.

by Salty on Mar 5, 2010 4:52 AM PST up reply actions

It's really not that much of a tax

but it is bullshit either way…unless of course they share ticket revenue with me for their new ballpark.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Mar 3, 2010 12:41 PM PST reply actions

Anyone who has gone out to Arizona should get why this is not a problem

the Cubs easily draw the most fans into that local economy and are threatening to move to Florida if they don’t get help building a new stadium.

Go to spring training games and it’s not just Angel fans at Angel games or Giants fans at Giants games. Cubs fans eat at the restaurants and stay at the hotels and buy tickets to ALL the games.

And they’re fun and right next to where the Angels play. Spring Training would be extremely boring at night if the Cubs left to Florida.

RIP Nick Adenhart

by ihearhowie2.0 on Mar 3, 2010 12:56 PM PST reply actions