san antonio is trying to get a bond passed to start a soccer team here.

let’s get a few things straight. i enjoy watching the world cup, but couldn’t really give a shit less about soccer the rest of the time. i do have an official ajax team jersey i wear around on occasion. but that’s just because no one else knows what it is.

so my attitutde towards a local pro soccer team is the same as it is towards the spurs. i don’t give a shot. i’m not paying to go see any of their games.

but it’s a business. they make money. they support themselves. i think san antonio would be a good market for a pro soccer team. soccer, or futbol, is the #1 sport outside of the u.s., and there is a huge latino population here that would probably support the pro soccer team. i think it could succeed.

but why do they want me to pay? if the soccer team makes a ton of money, are they going to reimburse the city (me) ? no, they won’t. that money will go in some asshat’s pocket. and he’ll no doubt have to pay his athletes more money because they will realize their drawing power. drawing power at the gates is pretty much the same as celebrity.

do i want a whole new crew of nancy boys thinking they’re above the law locally? because they’re popular and rich?

this is after reading lots of opinions about n. virginia and dc trying to subsidize a pro baseball team. i have an old fraternity brother on the tarrant county (ft worth) city council. he’s been fighting the same fight with the cowboys trying to weasel public funds out of the city of arlington texas (bigger than arlington va.) for a new dallas cowboys stadium.

sensible voices in every case have supported the business, but they are a business after all. they can build their own store.

i shouldn’t have to pay. no subsidies