“IS IT TRUE” JULY 20, 2018

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We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUE” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?

IS IT TRUE that the Evansville Courier wrote a very insightful article on the status of professional sports in greater Evansville and concluded that for a number of reasons, that Evansville is stuck in the middle?…what middle sort of implied is that when it comes to sports whether college or professional is that Evansville is big enough to want to be a player but not big enough or rich enough to actually find sustainable success when it comes to big time sports?

IS IT TRUE this comes on the end of a series of articles about the financial burden that the Ford Center has become in spite of some glowing consultant’s projections of prosperity and good times?…the reality is that the beautiful Ford Center is picking the taxpayer’s pockets for $9 Million per year with no end in sight?…with annual operating losses that approach $1 million the losses will continue even after the $127.5 million in bonds are paid off in 2038?…it would have been great if someone other than Andrew Smith and a few others had realized this before spending $127.5 million borrowed dollars?

IS IT TRUE that the City-County Observer completed a cursory analysis of just how many professional sports teams have failed in Evansville and the number is a staggering twenty-four (24)?…the most recent team to cease operations in Evansville was the Icemen hockey team that left for the larger venue in Jacksonville?… Evansville has only had 2 professional basketball teams and both failed with the most recent team the Evansville Thunder playing in Roberts Stadium through 1986?…that is a whopping 32 years since Evansville has had a basketball team where players were paid?…the other pro basketball effort was called the Evansville Agogans and we would appreciate if any of our readers can enlighten us as to just what a Grogan is?

IS IT TRUE Evansville started out with a bang in football landing an early franchise in the National Football League called the Evansville Crimson Giants?…the home team played against both the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers that still compete in the NFL?…since 1922 when the Crimson Giants folded Evansville has been home to the Bearcats, Titans, Express, Blue Cats, and Vipers all of which failed to sustain themselves?…the Vipers even moved their games to the Legion Park in Morganfield, KY which has a stadium that seats a couple of hundred before waiving the white flag of defeat?

IS IT TRUE as the CCO has always said, “Evansville is a baseball town at heart”?…we do still have the unaffiliated Otters, there have been fifteen (15) pro baseball teams that called Evansville home that no longer exist?… the best and most professional were the Triplets that were an AAA farm team for the Detroit Tigers?…it was nice to see next year’s major league players this year but that all ended more than 40 years ago?…the other failed baseball teams in declining order were the Outlaws, White Sox, Braves, Bees, Hubs, Pocketeers, Little Evas, Black Sox, Evas, Yankees, Strikers, River Rats, Blackbirds, and Hoosiers?

IS IT TRUE it is highly doubtful that there will ever be an AAA baseball team, an NFL franchise, any NBA basketball team, or even an affiliated high-quality hockey team in the near future?…the two things that may someday change that are population growth and income growth?

IS IT TRUE we would like to thank The Diamond Galleria for partnering with HeartSaver, a program of the Heart Hospital at Deaconess Gateway to provide life-saving automated external defibrillators AEDs to the Tristate First Responders?  … special thanks to The Diamond Galleria and its owners, Bert and Tyna Wheat, for hosting this special event in the store to highlight the program? … Sheriff Wedding, Police Chief Billy Boling, and Fire Chief Connelly were helping with this worthy community event along with the HeartSaver committee members and members of the Deaconess Foundation?

IS IT TRUE our “Horse Racing Mole” has informed us that our readers should consider betting on Ricochet Bay to place in the 2nd race at today’s live meet at Ellis?  …he also predicts that Victory Cigar will run a big race in the 6th race at Ellis today?  …our “Horse Racing Mole” suggests that FREDSTWIRLINCANDY should do well in the 7th race?  …he also suggests that you consider betting on LEO MEISTER across the board (win-place and show) in the 8th race?  …he finally recommends that you only bet as much as you can afford to lose and enjoy the live racing card at Ellis today?

IS IT TRUE that our publisher will be 75 years young at the end of this month? …he has been undergoing extensive tests on his heart  …we hope that the doctors will be able to correct his problem so he will have a better quality of life in his golden years?  …he would like to thank everyone for their prayers and support?

Today’s “Readers Poll” question is: If the election was held today for the Vanderburgh County Commission District 1 seat who would you vote for?

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17 COMMENTS

  1. (…waiting for JoeBidens link to russiatoday.com propaganda this morning)

  3. I see no way for the Evansville taxpayers to get out from under that Squatting Saucer. A pay-per-view implosion wouldn’t bring enough to buy a hot dog in that joint (the better dollars would to to the tenants in the high buildings downtown with binocular and turnstile ready rooms). We could cut our losses to a small extent by informing the Thunderbolts the gig is up, but then again, they are us.

    Market it to cults for their semi-annuals.

  4. The radical left is the new Democrat Party. These photos look eerily like a Middle East ISIS flag burning, but don’t expect this to be reported in the liberal main stream media including the C&P:
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    “Troubled waters: Maxine Waters fans BURN THE FLAG and protest Trump outside her LA office after she warned right-wing militia were planning to demonstrate there… but they never turned up…..

    Shocking photographs captured outside the field office show the crowd stomping on the flag before circling around the stars and stripes as they cheer when it erupts into flames….

    The group had been shouting a slew of other slogans such as ‘black power’ and ‘Resist!’

    Signs read things such as: ‘Don’t mess with our Queen Maxine,’ ‘We support you Maxine our congresswoman’ as well as ‘Trump/Pence must go!’ and ‘Deport Trump.’

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5972921/Maxine-Waters-supporters-burn-American-flag-counter-protest.html

    • With Trump being a client of the State government of Russia, you can guarantee “the Left” will have more success than anyone wants except the liberal left. Classic GOP mantras? – free market trade, competitive markets, a pro-business party, conservative support of our law enforcement community and conservative law and order? JoeBiden is against all of these conservative things these days. He’s become a russian socialist.

      The problem is Trump, and its clear that Russia holds Trump in a vulnerable servile position.
      Putin is dominating Trump and Trump is scared of what Russia holds on him. Trump defers to Putin on: Every. Single. Issue.

      Trump is a client of Russia. Only a fool would deny this anymore. And “the Left” is gonna take advantage.

  5. Up until the eighties the Agoga Tabernacle had a large gym downtown. I played there many times as a child. The Evansville Agogans played there. I think it was on sycamore and forth?

  6. Most people with a lick of sense knew the Ford Center would be a loser. There was no way to stop it, I remember a lot of old school democrats saying, just build it. You don’t win a political office in Vanderburgh County without union support and unions knew the Ford center was a cash cow. The unions will support Hatfield for commissioner because the next big cash cow is going to be a jail extension and Hatfield will make sure unions get more than their share of the cash. The parties will fight over the cost of the new jail but no one will talk about how many new employees with be needed. Every democrat controlled city or state in this country that has rolled over for unions is having severe adverse financial consequences. Unions have proven they can go to court get an emotion driven liberal judge to rule in their favor and mandate a tax increase to pay union pensions in a bankrupt city. I’m sure some jail construction contractors from upstate are already putting funds in Hatfield’s coffers. Democrats and unions do not care about our city and the debt load is going to increase. Remember that little voice in the wilderness, Sewers before stadiums, and the union workers protesting downtown that not building the stadium would take food out of their children’s mouths. The can has been kicked about as far down the road as it can be kicked.

  7. Hillary, the absolute height of hypocrisy. Perhaps even delusional:
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    “Army Ranger and Benghazi hero, Kris ‘Tanto’ Paronto unleashed on Hillary Clinton after she accused the Trump White House of not defending Obama’s Ambassador to Russia.

    On Thursday, twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary ‘Benghazi’ Clinton had the nerve to accuse the Trump White House of not defending Obama’s Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul….

    Clinton’s State Department failed to protect Christopher Stevens, an Ambassador to Libya and Sean Smith, a diplomat and information management officer in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in their deaths.

    We also lost two retired Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty on the night of September 11,2012 because of Hillary Clinton’s refusal to send help.

    Hillary Clinton’s State Department gave stand down orders to Special Ops forces ready to go in and help Americans who were surrounded by hundreds of Islamic insurgents in Benghazi, Libya in September of 2012.

    The Obama administration then lied about the Benghazi attack by blaming it on a YouTube video.

    Even more egregious, Hillary Clinton lied to the families of the victims.

    The parents of two of the victims sued Hillary Clinton for her reckless handling of classified information which resulted in the Benghazi attack….

    Kris Paronto tweeted: “Are you f’n kidding me @HillaryClinton ?!!! You left Ambassador Stevens and us to die in Benghazi then spewed lie after lie to the family members of my dead teammates and to the world to cover it up and now you have the nerve to talk about defending diplomats?!You are disgusting!”

    Are you f’n kidding me @HillaryClinton ?!!! You left Ambassador Stevens and us to die in Benghazi then spewed lie after lie to the family members of my dead teammates and to the world to cover it up and now you have the nerve to talk about defending diplomats?!You are disgusting! https://t.co/ErQl1jOU8a

    — Kris Paronto (@KrisParonto) July 19, 2018

    Hillary Clinton is so evil that during a Congressional hearing on the Benghazi attacks, she asked, “At this point what difference does it make?!” in response to four dead Americans on her watch.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/benghazi-hero-kris-paronto-goes-nuclear-on-crooked-hillary-after-she-accuses-trump-wh-of-not-defending-ambassador/

    • Um. Does anyone else in here notice that JoeBiden is talking about former Pres candidate Hillary from the last election?

      THAT is a worried, misguided thug.

  8. I noticed the article on the Ford Center mentioned a 127 million dollar bond. We paid 127 million for a project that is only worth about 95 million. The PLA= project labor agreement usually adds about 30% to the cost of a Project. The same thing happened with the hotel. The hotel will be turned over to the new owners in a couple of years but we’ll still have the debt load.

  9. I still remember the name cotton nash..…google cotton nash he played for evansville in late 60s………………..he went on to play mlb and the nba also he played for the ky team in the aba……………also ……played for rupp at uk…… …………big man could hit the ball a mile…………….…….lot of childhood memories @ the 3rd oldest baseball park in America……………………

  10. Ok Libtards!! NSWP, Nazi, USSR, Mother Russia and you want Socialism? That came from NY, Socialist, not smart enough to poor piss out of a boot, i.e., degree in Intl. Relations= waste of funds. The Bern, Hell he couldn’t beat the Billary, yet, Socialist. You f—ing idiots support them. Red Wave in November and 2020. Let’s see, Pocahontas, Obummer’s Veep, Biden and of course, the biggest crook in America, Billary. Leave the country and see how good you have got it. Good riddance and don’t let the door hit your fat ass when you leave. Oh, and take the illegal assholes with you!!!

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