Thanks to an AWESOME TKC TIPSTER we have an important update on the mostly misguided opinions of a local sports talker.
To wit . . .
CHECK OUT THIS TKC FACT CHECK ON KEVIN KIETZMAN CHEERLEADING FOR YET ANOTHER TAXPAYER SPORTS SUBSIDY THAT STAYS LOSING!!!
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"It seems like just a few short years ago that Kevin Keitzman was pushing for KC to fork over more taxpayer dollars to bring the new NASCAR Hall of Fame to town. It was a regular topic on WHB 810am, then. Well, NASCAR ended up choosing Charlotte. So how's it doing for Charlotte?"
Check it: Nascar Hall of Fame Leaves Charlotte Home With Bank Debt But wait there's more . . .
The AWESOME TKC TIPSTER continues: "The guy has NEVER opposed any kind of "public support" for anything, much less tribute to the Sports Gods. Look at what the Star just reported on the continual drain that is P&L - another cause that he and his station championed. No one has ever put together a comprehensive look at just how consistently awful he and his station have been through the years at forcing these "private/public partnerships" down the taxpayers throats."
Developing . . .
Kansas City wasn't the place for this to be built and to me a spot maybe easier accessed by the country as whole would have been a better location but I don't believe it is the real issue.
ReplyDeleteLike anything related to sports anymore the owners think they have the right to rape you on tickets prices and the players or as in this case the drivers feel they are worth millions per year. Very hard for many families to attend very many of these attractions per year.
So it's lack of attendance could as the story pointed out be due a lot to the cost of going there.
As for Kevin Keitzman he is an idiot and explains why he is stuck in KC doing sports on radio and an AM station at that. If he had any real talent he would have been at ESPN by now.
Oh so Kevin is wrong in what he believes in and Glazer is always right with his? Fuck You Tony and your stupid insights.
ReplyDeleteIt shouldn't be people like Kietzman who worries you. He has no responsibility for anything other than shooting off his mouth and making a living by trying to get radio listeners fired up enough to listen to him.
ReplyDeleteThe people who are a MUCH bigger concern are the local and state elected folks who never met a business subsidy, especially for sports, that they didn't fall over each other to grant.
Exhibit A: The St Louis stadium deal.
He should run for city council. His attitude is exactly what the chamber of commerce is looking for in a good council-critter.
ReplyDeleteSports is a business that America will just not let fail. We subsidize sports beginning in grade schools and by the time we die we have our city and state governments spending out the ass for these silly games. I wonder if football would last 5 minutes in America if we stopped buying into the bullshit and asked the sport to survive on it's own.
ReplyDeleteListening to Keitz's show is entertaining, when it is, for the wrong reasons. Listen to Keitz's clownish, shortsighted and often contradictory opinions! Listen to the hesitant disagreement in the voices of his lackeys! Witness one middle aged man's fragile ego making a mess of itself all over the airwaves!
ReplyDeleteDidn't Keitz get caught having sex with a WHB intern in his car? Something about a blowjob if I recall. Wasn't that while he was married, too?
ReplyDeleteAs long as we are losing our asses on the P&L, why not put it down there?
ReplyDeleteI can't stand Keitzman but to be fair he was one of very few that rightfully called out the Stadium renovations as a bad deal.
ReplyDeleteHe also said on the air back in 2010 that Mizzou was going to the Big 10.
ReplyDelete810 carries the banner for subsidizing sports and all other matters be damned. Recently Sam Mellinger wrote in the Star that StL should tell the Rams to f-off. Soren Petro was adamant that cities can't disrespect NFL teams like that, and that they need to carry the water if they want these teams around. Sam's point was that they don't need these teams around if they present such a disproportionate opportunity cost in terms of taxpayer assets and attention. Petro treated it like blasphemy...after all, 810 needs sports in town...at least they know how their bread is buttered.
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