Well, baseball is kind of an archaic sport, isn't it? I mean, back when cars didn't exist yet and everyone wanted to live in a Norman Rockwell painting, sure, baseball was part of the American cultural fabric. Things have kind of changed since then.

I'm always surprised when I encounter someone who feels passionate about baseball. Its the anachronism that didn't come back as a steampunk fad. People with ironic facial hair, who collect LP records and dress like it's the 19th century, sure there's some hipster cool in all that. But baseball? Who gives even the vaguest thing like a fuck about it?

Landlord updates his building. The Stranger protests.

Naming rights of the publicly-subsidized facility should go to the public, in practice if not in law. Let's call it Mariners Stadium, King County Field, or similar. Who cares what deal is struck between two private businesses?

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You guess wrong.