NYC2012

[wineturtle]

If NYC gets the OG bid(I think not)and we/they/Jets?Ice Follies do build on the West Side Rail Yards how fast will the Track get pulled up for better sight lines for Ballsports?
A) Five years
B) Three years
C) One Year
D) Day 18 of the Games

[dukehjsteve]

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D

[CookyMonzta]

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<<Q. If NYC gets the OG bid(I think not)and we/they/Jets?Ice Follies do build on the West Side Rail Yards how fast will the Track get pulled up for better sight lines for Ballsports?>>

A. Baseball season, 2013! Bet the farm that my city will be in so much debt that even our GREAT-grandchildren will be paying for it, right up to and probably including a piece of the 22nd century.

Bloomberg and Doctoroff did this for the Jets, NOT for the Olympics! Why else are they in such a rush to get approval to tear up ground to get the stadium started BEFORE the actual vote in July? They have 7 years to build the place, and they have already provided the plans and drawings to the IOC. The rush alone, to me, is indicative of deception.

I'm sorry, but under present circumstances, we're not ready. Besides, Paris is 4/5 and London 8/5 on the oddsmakers' betting line. Let them have the Olympic debt in which Athens now languishes. If we get it, it'll be another Coca-Cola or McDonald's Olympics; all about the corporate dollar and the corporate elite, nothing about the athletes; and probably even far worse than the 'exceptional' games of Atlanta (as Saramanch spoke of; notice he didn't say 'the best games').

[The Kitchen Cynic]

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><<Q. If NYC gets the OG bid . . . how fast will the Track get pulled up for better sight lines for Ballsports?>>
A. Baseball season, 2013! . . . Bloomberg and Doctoroff did this for the Jets, NOT for the Olympics! <<

And the Jets have been playing baseball since when? It's my understanding that the NYC 2012 people are quite open about the fact that after the Games, the track will be removed and it will be solely a football stadium.

[gh]

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All other merits/demerits aside for the various candidates, for me the bottom line is that I don't want to be outside in NY City in July or August. Period.

[bad hammy]

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> All other merits/demerits aside for the various candidates, for me the bottom
> line is that I don't want to be outside in NY City in July or August. Period.

It is better than being outside in the dirt of Sacramento in July, and you didn't seem to have much of a problem with that.

[CookyMonzta]

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<<And the Jets have been playing baseball since when? It's my understanding that the NYC 2012 people are quite open about the fact that after the Games, the track will be removed and it will be solely a football stadium.>>

Solely a football stadium?? I sincerely doubt it. Anything can happen between now and 2013. If the Mets don't get a new stadium before then, they may very well make a pitch to play in that West Side stadium for the Jets, during baseball season.

[runforlife]

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>If NYC gets the OG bid(I think not)
That's your answer. "If" and "think not"