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Originally Posted by SHOFEAR
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The irony of TV pointing out the foolishness of migs's "inside scoop" when he has a history of doing the same re the return of the nhl to Winnipeg.
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ha ha...i will be vindicated on that one opening day next season....
i very much want regina to build a new stadium....i support the CFL and want it to play in better than the third world facilities it does today....it would be awesome to have this facility built.
i am simply trying to bring a more realistic viewpoint....migs suggested that they havent trumpeted the urban renewal angle enough....it has been documented by many urban planning studies and expert sources that stadiums are not good catalysts for that....it is a fair opinion and hardly a new one....there are almost no examples of them actually having any impact on urban development....even the MTS centre in downtown winnipeg, which is far busier than this stadium will be, has had little impact.....it too was sold to government using the urban renewal argument.
he claims things like, the city will give crazy amounts of money, the private sector will donate 100 million dollars as if it were a charity and the financing is 90% finalized....all of these things deserved to be challenged....they may end up to be true, but until they come from another source it is not incorrect to be skeptical because they seem to fly in the face of logic and historic precedent....that is not to say that illogical things dont happen, but challenging the notion that they will is fair.
migs has been making insider claims for a year....none of which have come to fruition...if they do, i will be the first to be very happy about it...until then though, challenging him on what appear to unrealistic assertions is totally reasonable....it isnt intended as an insult....he states these things as if they are fact and then simply changes to another set of facts when the first ones dont materialize.
it was fair to challenge me on the jets and when circumstances changed that affected what i was claiming, i took the lumps......i will soon be vindicated....the question is, will migs?