Goodbye our Queen of Diamonds
It's 11pm do you know where your tax $$ is going? It is going to further destroy Detroit, of course. More crack houses in Corktown, more hooker bars like Hoot's, what the storied sports bar at the corner of Michigan & Trumbull has become. Money that badly needs to be spent for Detroit public schools going towards demolition of a Ballpark that could have served as a place for children to learn the real history of Detroit and ports in Detroit.
Yeah, even learning the lessons of the ugly side of sports and Major League Baseball, because how else can we learn about the racism that prevailed then, and possibly learn from it? Now, the racism that pervades MLB is the scarfing up of all the young talented players from the Dominican Republic/Haiti by MLB. MLB scouts trawl that island, plucking up the young players for pennies for their first yr. contracts, draining all the talent & leaving that Island [[DR/Haiti) high and dry....not even one cent contributed to their ballparks or their schools with no $$ spent on these most impoverished countries in the Western Hemisphere, just snatching them up to play for rich pizza barons and such.
An opportunity lost for Detroit schoolchildren to learn the art of sportscasting from masters such as Ernie Harwell and the late George Kell, so that we maybe could have some people of color learn the trade instead of tired old know-it-all hacks, and rich white men attempting play-by-play. We had interactive exhibits planned, etc. Have the students learn how to possibly make a damn living in this most lucrative sports field, instead of a half-baked semi-education to get a job a McDonald's, but as we all know --- who the ef wants a McJob when you can make fat stacks on the corner with drugs, which, I believe was the operative word in the 60's, when all of our inner cities became flooded with heroin, just as African-Americans became radicalized, and then, in the 70's - to the 2000's with the free flow of cocaine, crystal meth [they call it "ice" in Hawaii, absolutely ruining Naive Hawaiian families there every day], ....sorry to get off track, but I think these drugs are allowed into our cities for a reason.
Meanwhile, we're giving billionaires tax credits for multi-media playgrounds, passing as ballparks, financed by public money, too, in many cases -- where the last thing these crowds are thinking about is what is going on on the playing field, the Game to them just an afterthought, an opportunity to entertain corporate clients.
I am devastated -- I just got back after a marathon day -- first at the Spirit of D with that red wings shirt on it [Hockey Town no more Tiger Town] and then .....standing with Beechcricker and a few others at the "rally" in the rain from 9:30 until the death sentence, around 11AM. My brother & I head immediately to our Ballpark, and Farrow didn't wait 5 minutes to start the claws, killing her off. Came home, tried to get some work done, and headed back for another 5 hrs. or so with the remaining time of what is left of our beautiful, majestic, Queen of Diamonds, our dreams vanquished in an instant by the Worst People in the World, the DEGC, and Judge Edwards.
Just had to vent, cry myself to sleep, get up tomorrow and do it again -- go spend a few more days with Her before She's in the landfill/dustbin of history.
Sherry Razor
Fan of Saving the playing field of Tiger Stadium, Fenway, Wrigley, and even the Oakland Coliseum and Fighter Against The Corporate Takeover Ruining Our National Pastime