Yeah!, -We here in the Burg Shud Have Kept our Less than 30 Year Old Three Rivers Stadium too! And Not Demolished it, -Building Two New, Unneccessary Stadiums in it's Place. And Partly at Public Expense too, I Think! Three Rivers was Certainly as Good and Great as Ever! It was Certainly Good Enuff! For Both our Pirates and Steelers. A Few Suppossed Defects against our Creature Comfort Preferences, -was No Call or Cause to Tear it Down!

We Now have Two Unneccessary Stadiums, -and at Least at Partial Public Expense to Boot!

When What this City Really Needs is More and Better Infrastructure, Highways, Parking Garages, and the Like.

We Need a First Class Rapid Transit System! Even if "Only" a Metro Wide Trolly System, -such as Atlanta's Marta! As Oppossed to our One, and Only One, Good Line. Which Goes into our Southern Suburbs Only! My Experiences on the MARTA, as Well as Philly's SEPTA, -Has Really Put my Area's Transit Picture to Shame! But So Goes Much of the Predominant Thinking, and Prevailing Attitude, Around Here!

I Remember Good Ole Three Rivers being Built!, as an 11 and 12 Year Old. And All the Glowing Talk that Went Along with that! "It Will Last For Years!" "The Pirates and Steelers are Only Happy to Share It!" If One would Have then said, -That we Would be Tearing it Down *Within Only 30 Years"!, -People Would Have Laughed Right in One's Face!

Yet Isn't that Precisely What this Town has Done?!

Don't Get me Wrong! I Liked and Enjoyed Good Ole Forbes Field too! I've Gone to a Few Games there too, -in those Later 60s! A Fond Enuff Memory and Experience!

But at Least it was Torn Down After some 60 or More Years! Not a Mere 30! Thats More within what could be Called Expected Normalcy!

Rather than Work on More Crucially Needed Infrastructure towards our Survival and Better Development, -We Put Up at some Public Expense, Two Unneccessary Stadiums, -and Tear Down a Perfectly Good One. And Not All that Old of a One to Boot!

Just Like All the Steelers Clowns we Keep On, Year After Year! Just Because we're Too Nice to Pitch Them or Something! Too Attached, and Keep On Giving them Another Chance!

(Reminds me of All the "Last Chances" we've Given saadam! Before Bush # 2 Finally, -Thru Hoops Jumping, -was Able to Put his Foot Down!)

Now if This Town were Dallas!, -They'd Fire Such Clowns in a Heartbeat! Thats Some of the Real and Great Difference!

Certainly if the Corporate and Private Interests that Be, -Can Fund or Line Up Loans for Such Themselves, -Then their Pet Stadium Projects Shud Not be Built at Public Expense! And Even if They Can't Swing That, -in Many Instances Such *Still* Shouldn't be Built at Public Expense! [color:"black"]

Incidentally, -I Gladly Have Not Yet Gone!, to either PNC Park or Heinz Field! And Aim to Continue Boycotting them so! I'm Gonna Put my Actions Where my Words Are!

Also, While I'm Business Friendly and Understand that they've Got the Naming Rights, -Now that they've Built it!, -I Think it Much More Appropriate, that PNC Rather be Named Clemente Park or Stargell Field! And Heinz Shud Have "Rooney" or Someone in it's Place! [/color] [email]bountyhunter[/email]