Woe to Jet Fans
Unhappy news today. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has indicated he will not vote in favor of the Westside Stadium. Silver stated, "This plan is at best, premature."

Silver indicated he was concerned that development on the Westside would detract from development in his district, which includes ground zero. While Base10 agrees that development should be jump-started in ground zero, Base10 thinks this excuse is a bunch of crap. (See last entry).

It doesn't help that Silver's counterpart in the State Senate has shown himself to be only lukewarm on the idea. There is of course hope that the Mayor and the Governor can pile so much pork into Silver's Assembly district that the idea of voting to help the city get lots of construction jobs and an Olympics and Superbowl might become more palatable.

Gillford Miller of course took a swipe at the Mayor as well, calling for a stadium to be built in Queens. As much as Base10 would like to see the Jets come back to Queens, perhaps Mr. Miller forgot that the Jets have flatly rejected the idea of a Queens stadium.

Who knows what will happen? Silver and Miller want Queens, but the Jets will not make the kind of investment they're willing to make on the Westside if they go to Queens--if they would consider it at all. It is even possible that the Jets could start to look at greener pastures, particularly in L.A., and remember, Connecticut already has a stadium development plan in the can from its abortive attempt to woo the Pats there in 1999.

There's is much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments in Mudville today. Developing.
- posted by Base10 @ 4:59 PM