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What's the opposite of "Beat L. A."?

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

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And that is when it gets real and the leading politicians move from damning it with faint praise to refusal to go along with its demands.

“I want to see the full report before I make a decision with respect to that, and I know, having talked to the Senate president and to the House speaker, that they feel the same way,” Baker told reporters Friday.

http://www.wbur.org/2015/07/24/baker-boston-2024-usoc-request

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How about Detroit or Buffalo for the Olympics?... cities that could use the opportunities that kind of development planning presents.

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These cities could actually use the economic activity, but the IOC is a parasite, not a symbiote.

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Abolish the Olympics, and leave Buffalo alone. It's a fine place.

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let alone just running the city. So, that fails the Olympics funding model! Public transit is worse than Boston.

On the plus side, there are lots of vacant properties to clear and build all sorts of new stadiums and housing upon!

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Our long statewide nightmare is over.

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this could be the moment that Boston's cranky negativity finally triumphs!

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...I have a feeling you might have taken "cranky negativity" as a complement. Which means you didn't understand what I was getting at.

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GOOD! Let's end this farce now and have theayor focus his efforts on more important issues.

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Tuesday morning's headline, torn between:

"Suck it, Boston2024!"

or

"Boston to USOC: Drop Dead!"

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They should subcontract the headline to the NY Post for something pithy.

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I really hope that all of the conversations around economic benefits of spending on long term visions sticks around for a while.

Peace out Boston 2024. Been real. Won't miss ya.

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I really hope that all of the conversations around economic benefits of spending on long term visions sticks around for a while.

Yeah, it won't. Enjoy this winter, everybody!

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Yeah, I would not recommend holding your breath on that one.

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There is no way the US is going to host the 2024 games in any city. Period. End of story.

The IOC is holding out for the highest cash and the best legal/political support. They won't find that in any US city but they will find it internationally.

I don't want the olympics either but there is zero chance of the olympic coming to Boston even if local public support picks up.

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If I understand the bid correctly and you "follow the money" to the crowd of Suffolk Construction and the like they don't even need Boston to get the Olympics in order for them to make out like bandits.

Just having the bid, according to them, means that they need to start work before the decision is made and therefore the city must hand over that huge, lucrative tract of land along with the ridiculous tax breaks for it.

So, they stand to "win" no matter what city is chosen. On the other hand I, as a lowly taxpayer in the city, stand to either lose just from lack of revenue on that land or I get to lose that revenue and get socked for the overruns that come with the Olympics.

Hmmm, why don't you try to sell me that civic pride shit again like I'm some rube who doesn't get that this is a land grab plain and simple.

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Appropriate for Boston2024

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I heard LA's bid includes a monorail!

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presser the Mayah hosts regarding the decision. Hopefully he'll be doing the Charlie Brown head down slow drag as he makes his way to the podium.

You'll know me, I'll be the one giggling uncontrollably.

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Sorry. I hit my head off of a passing airliner when I jumped with joy after reading this story.

It's not over yet, but good work to the people who saw heaping bags of fertilizer and naked greed when they saw this proposal. I hold no malice towards the people pushing for the Games, and that's what they are Games, save for a certain newspaper columnist and whomever dared question our patriotism because we didn't want to host a badminton tournament.

That being said. People in power in our name; fix the T, retard the gun violence, maybe a small stadium for the Revs on the West Fourth Street Bridge isn't a bad idea, fix the Northern Avenue Bridge, and somebody hug Mike Eurizione and tell him he can still eat for free nearly anywhere he wants.

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Mike Eruzione is the king of the freeloaders! Saw him pull a DYKWIAM at Kelly's one night when the kid behind the counter refused to comp his meal.

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They've done it twice before.
They LIKE doing it.
They can reuse facilities that were built for the 1932 and 1984 Olympics.

Also, they've built a large amount of rail transit over the past 30 years, with more on the way -- it's not quite the auto-centric place it once was.

I suspect a last-minute LA 2024 bid is doomed but it will be good practice for a 2028 bid.

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Greece, unlike Boston, desperately needs economic help. Hold the games at Mt. Olympus every time.

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Greece doesn't need the debt from hosting an Olympics! Can you only imagine the interest rates charged for any bonds used to fund Olympics related construction there? Simply too high to ever happen. Greeks don't pay taxes as it is, so again, the funding model for hosting an Olympics won't work there!

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Greece's current problems are not solely but significantly the result of the 2000 Olympics. I doubt they want to, or would be remotely able, to do it again.

EDIT: 2004, durr

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One point in Greece's favor: they've already built ALL of the needed venues. Why not reuse them every four years instead of letting them fall apart?

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The fact that a permanent Greek Olympics would be permanent is what finally makes the whole thing profitable.

It's the unnecessary overdevelopment that has to also be taken down all for a few weeks of world wide party that makes the whole thing a disaster financially.

Have a "host" country that designs the logo, mascot, ceremonies, etc. but hold the games in the same place every time in Greece and give Greece 80% of the proceeds and give 20% to the host.

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Reports were of huge bribe amounts in the building of Sochi. There are such opportunities with FIFA for picking World Cup locations and the committee members getting big payoffs. Put the thing in the same place each time and so much opportunity is lost!

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