Fresh off possibly his first Milwaukee Bucks arena article ever that actually cited people who weren’t personally involved in the deal, what’s Don Walker done for an encore? How about calling one of the Bucks owners and asking him if he likes it that the governor wants to give him $220 million? I bet the suspense is killing you!
“It’s a great deal for Wisconsin, a great deal for the state,” [Wes] Edens said in a telephone interview.
Edens said he did not have all the details of Walker’s proposal, but said it was clear the governor wants the city and state to cooperate.
“They will, right?’ Edens said.
And that’s pretty much the entire article: Edens doesn’t know much about the governor’s plan, but he likes the part about him getting taxpayer money. The only way this could have been remedied would have been if Walker (or his editors, presumably) had gone with a headline like, well, the one on this post. (Instead they went with “Bucks co-owner Wes Edens calls Walker arena plan ‘a great deal’.”) Can someone please poke the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and remind them what the first syllable of “newspaper” is supposed to refer to?
Last year the Bucks were 15-67, now they are over .500. Just a coincidence, I’m sure. From Stern to Silver. Keeping it in the family, kind of like MLB. Enjoy watching LeBron in the Finals this year. It’s the Tim Donaghy smart-money choice. Spending this kind of money to keep a team is absurd. Spending this kind of money to keep WWE wrestler’s in town is mind-boggling.
Why can’t the new owners issue a bond backed by the money they will get from the new TV contracts? Just like the players, the are due a 50% pay raise.
If they gave that money away, then they wouldn’t have it anymore!
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=mash&episode=s02e12
220 mil *is* a great deal. But 440 mil would be even greater!