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Don't imagine for a second that if the shoe was on the other foot that Atlanta wouldn't do the same thing. Let's say the Braves had a stadium in Cobb and Smyrna had been diddling around for 20 years. If they approached the city of Atlanta about moving here they'd be all over it.
Don't imagine for a second that if the shoe was on the other foot that Atlanta wouldn't do the same thing. Let's say the Braves had a stadium in Cobb and Smyrna had been diddling around for 20 years. If they approached the city of Atlanta about moving here they'd be all over it.
Don't imagine for a second that if the shoe was on the other foot that Atlanta wouldn't do the same thing. Let's say the Braves had a stadium in Cobb and Smyrna had been diddling around for 20 years. If they approached the city of Atlanta about moving here they'd be all over it.
Atlanta has made that mistake plenty of times in the past. Glad they did not this time. If the COA offered the Braves $400M they would have stayed. But the city made the right move. The Braves were not a benefit to the neighborhood nor the city as a whole for the price they are asking. But this way the city still gets the benefits of the region (Hotel stays, rental cars, customers to other businesses) probably even more than Cobb will get. But with none of the cost (no direct and indirect payments to the Braves and a chance to rebuild the neighborhood the stadiums destroyed).
Hopefully after a few decades Cobb (and other places in the US) will learn too and teams will operate where is best for them and not where they are offered the most tax money.
Location: Vinings/Cumberland in the evil county of Cobb
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They are not our braves, they are owned by liberty media.
So why such hatred for Cobb County? Liberty Media owned the Braves before the move was announced, so what's the big deal? Some of you guys act like the new stadium is being built in Dalton or Athens. The new stadium will be less than 5 miles from the city-line. Jeeeeeez Louis
So why such hatred for Cobb County? Liberty Media owned the Braves before the move was announced, so what's the big deal? Some of you guys act like the new stadium is being built in Dalton or Athens. The new stadium will be less than 5 miles from the city-line. Jeeeeeez Louis
Easy to think that way when you live in Vinings. Sorry but Cobb is the pimple on the #%^ of the Atlanta region. Your leaders have solidified the stigma of backwards thinking time and time again. Every time Atlanta gets its groove going, Cobb is there to block any and all progress. Cobb does not understand the concept of regionalism and prefers isolation, even if it ensures mutual destruction. It's like Cobb wants to hurt the city.
In a time of urban, downtown renaissance across the country, Cobb is there yet again to lure our MLB team out of Downtown, bucking the national trend. This, my friends is the reason for such hatred for Cobb County.
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