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      <![CDATA[I agree that this is all speculation and assumption, but I disagree that the issue is so simplistic as to say one either assumes the best or assumes the worst. Whatever happened to weighing facts and attempting to discern the mid-point of truth?
        
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      <![CDATA[Make no mistake, all of this is speculation and assumption. You either assume the best, or you assume the worst.
        
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      <![CDATA[With limited resources, it might be best to invest in a less risky venture and as the economy improves, revisit the question. Work out the details that nag at the backs of everyone's mind.
        
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      <![CDATA[A baseball boondoggle by any other name is still a baseball boondoggle. Check this out!<br><br>http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/sports/minors/minors_baseball/article/BASE19_20090218-222614/210277/<br><br>Posted by ( yusaywhat?
        
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      <![CDATA[I wish this thing would just get built to shut these whiners up. This stadium will do nothing but help and will pay for itself.
        
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      <![CDATA[Funny how when Supporters attack they accuse the Writer and anyone who agreese with them of being Biased and yet they seem to prefer the Sales Pitch they were given. <br><br>Everyone likes Durham as an example of a good ballpark story but they forget Norfolk and Harbor Park.
        
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      <![CDATA[Go to Durham, NC to see what a ballpark can do for economic development. The citizens opposed the ballpark, the city showed some stones and built it anyway - now, that area has the highest rents in the city and generates much more tax revenue than empty warehouses would ever have.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hey I bet Disco and Dixie won't want their gear back after it's been hit by a few balls and bat!<br><br>Photo illustration by Jeffrey Bland and Scott Elmquist. Umpire equipment courtesy of Disco Sports and Dixie Sporting Goods.
        
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      <![CDATA[You want different reporting? Try having different facts?
        
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      <![CDATA[Why the personal insults about Bostic's physical appearance? What do those things have to do with anything other than the writer's attempt to paint Bostic in a negative light?
        
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      <![CDATA[I wish you would stop attacking Style with a blanket generality. <br><br>I ask you &mdash; point to a math fact that is wrong in this recent article.
        
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      <![CDATA[I like reading Style, but their anti-business, anti-development slant gets so old. It's so predictable.
        
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      <![CDATA[Anonymous, thanks for being a reader. We have covered businesses and this community for more than 25 years, and we are certainly not against business, growth or development.
        
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      <![CDATA[Contrary to FanGuy, I think there is still fear out in the 'burbs toward downtown. In my experience it lags behind reality.
        
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      <![CDATA[Can't Style write an article w/o factual misstatements and misinformation? Here are just a few based on quick review of this editorial (I mean "article"):<br><br>"It requires a deep-seated, religious-like faith to believe that a new ballpark for a team that doesn&apos;t exist can save downtown and become an economic catalyst for retail development, condos and new office buildings"<br><br>Style apparently hasn't kept up with the recent news about the imminent acquisition of a Connecticut AA team for Richmond.
        
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      <![CDATA[Is there any particular reason you guys didn't bother to interview anyone in Memphis? Or Dayton?
        
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