For voting the piece of shit politician out of office that gave the Braves that horrible deal.


As chairman of Cobb County, Tim Lee helped oversee the deal that put Cobb County taxpayers on the hook for almost half a billion dollars to finance the Braves’ new stadium. Not only has the new traffic nightmare of a ball park depleted the county’s public parks fund and ushered in a new wave of sinister legislation, residents never even got to vote on it or voice dissent at county meetings. Lee made the case that he needed to push the deal through in secret, because the Braves needed to adhere to a tight timeline.

That is, of course, obvious bullshit, and thankfully, Cobb County residents put him in the trash can and voted him out of office this evening.

Mike Boyce ran against Lee with a platform that took issue with Lee’s clandestine dealings, and he easily beat him today. Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boyce held a 64 to 36 percent lead over Lee at the time that just over half of the precincts had reported in (those figures seem to have held). Half an hour after those results started to come in, Lee conceded.

“I told him we, we would work with him to keep this county going strong,” Lee said, fighting back tears.

One Cobb County resident told Deadspin:

That deal makes me want to leave. I’m just glad everyone else is mad too. Just remember that when “Cobb County stole the Braves” - its residents did not support it.

Let this be a lesson to voters represented by politicians who allocate public funds to billionaires for stadiums without the consent of the public. Vote these shiny-eyed jackals out of office!

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If Big Bossman was still with us, this would never happen.

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That's me!!! My wife's office overlooks the construction of this thing and it is going to cause traffic issues of monumental proportions. There is no parking for this stadium right off the expressways, they are going around to office buildings trying to create deals with their parking. Fingers crossed it turns into an additional 81 days of working from home.

Good for them. This is what the public should do.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I believe I read that part of the legislation stipulates that an office building or any private owner can't simply rent out a lot for parking. The only ones who can do that are the Braves. If all the people with lots in the area say "fuck you", they're going to have a real issue with parking.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

Big time, there is no rail getting to the stadium. Cobb county intentionally denies access to the train system to keep the city away. Part of the infrastructure is walking bridges over their 7 lane expressways as most of the parking is on the other side of the 285 interstate.

I recognize everything bad about it, but I'm still excited for it. I'll be twenty five minutes away and since no one actually goes to games tickets are everywhere from corporate seats. Looking forward to having an easy time taking kids there.

Why are the Braves even getting a new stadium? Turner Field only has to be about 20 years old, right?

Edit: I just checked, this is Turner Field's 19th season open. Fucking ridiculous...

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Was at Turner for the Cubs game, nice place. Does not look dated at all, but it does have the feel off the last cookie cutter stadium. I beleive afffter Turner you got Coors Field and Camden Yards setting the standard for new stadiums. Parking was ample and accessible. Great beer selection, good food. Had the best stadium cheese burger in my life.

Here the story I hear down here. The Braves wanted out of Foulton County bad. Atlanta metro has 6.2 million people, less than 500K live in Atlanta. The majority of Altanta is minorities and a big chunk is poverty. Not the ideal demo for the closest people to the stadium.

Cobb county has over half of the season ticket holders and 75% of them live North of the City. They wanted to get closer to them while distancing those people from the city. For God sake, they intentionally picked a site not covered by their rail system, and Cobb has basically said public transit while never come here. Atlanta is encircled with a interstate called the perimeter. The rail system cuts across like cross-hairs N/S and E/W meeting in downtown atlanta. They are putting the stadium at the NW corner if the cross hairs were to make a compass.

Turner Field is the track and field stadium from the 1996 Olympics, re-opened as a ballpark for '97. Camden Yards and Coors Field came before it.


MARTA was designed to be ineffective. There's a great article on it somewhere but I lost it. Basically, the powers that be didn't want blacks going anywhere they wanted.

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I won't let your pesky facts get in the way of my narrative that it was the last cookie cutter stadium. Stupid facts. Go trump.

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But I thought no one goes to Braves games...or is that just in the playoffs?

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An unjust law is no law at all--St. Augustine of Hippo

Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

No one goes for the braves. They go for the team of the city they were transplanted from. Cubs game was 80% full. Probably 4 cubs fans to each braves fan.

Speeps ... as you probably are aware, we both know someone that actually has that shirt, which I think is great and wish I had because the vast majority of people won't have the first idea what the hell it means (which is fine), but of the small subset of people that would (a) recognize those guys' profession, (b) recognize who they are individually, and (c) recognize the team's moniker, we then have a further branching off of those who would then either be (i) entertained immensely or (ii) horribly offended about it ... and with subset (ii) they would then have to decide if they wanted to out themselves as enough of a fan of old-timey pro wrestling to know (a), (b), and (c) - and risk ridicule from the general populace for it - and then to get outraged over a frigging shirt - again, risking ridicule for being a sensitive dickwagon.

It's such a potential treasure trove of dark humor and/or discomfort from so little effort.

I'm a bad person.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

You really didn't need to build up to that last sentence. Talk about a TL;DR candidate.

TL;DR

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DUDE WTF?! whenever i see "cobb county" i can't help but think of that wonderful tune from my childhood where it went like "IF YOU EVER TAKE A TRIP TO TO COBB COUNTY GEORGIA...........YOU'LL BE SERVING HARD TIME! YOU'LL BE SERVING HARD TIME! THE BIG BOSS MAN WILL MAKE YA WALK THE LINE YOU BETTER WATCH OUT BOY (OOOH WHAT SUBTLE RACISM! 2016 HAS ME UP ON THIS SHIT!) OR YOU'LL BE SERVING HARD TIME!"



RIP RAY TRAYLOR

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