{"id":29384,"date":"2018-04-26T00:04:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29384"},"modified":"2018-04-26T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:04:15","slug":"tear-it-down-tear-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29384","title":{"rendered":"Tear it down! Tear it down!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/amarill8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29385\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/amarill8-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/amarill8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/amarill8.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel like revisiting an issue that has been discussed before on this blog. It&#8217;s the fate of Potter County Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarillo.com\/opinion\/20180425\/editorial-tearing-down-potter-countys-stadium-needs-to-be-option\">The Amarillo Globe-News<\/a> has put forward a notion that the stadium&#8217;s demolition ought to be an option. I&#8217;ll take it a step beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Take the damn thing down!<\/p>\n<p>Let me count the reasons for the venue known formerly as the Dilla Villa to be reduced to rubble.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is in terrible physical condition. Drive by the dump\/rathole and you see what I mean. The exterior grounds outside the fence look hideous. Potter County, which owns the place, is doing next to nothing to fix it up.<\/li>\n<li>There is no practical use for it beyond it being the home field for San Jacinto Christian Academy&#8217;s baseball team. SJCA has a deal to use the ballpark for its home games.<\/li>\n<li>Amarillo is going to welcome a shiny new sports and entertainment venue downtown in April 2019, thus removing Potter County&#8217;s ballpark from any consideration for future use. The MPEV will be home to a AA minor-league baseball franchise. They&#8217;ll play hardball next to City Hall, signaling the continued revival of the downtown district.<\/li>\n<li>Potter County Memorial Stadium is the property of Potter County. As the AGN noted in its editorial, the county doesn&#8217;t have the money to fix it up. But even if it did, what would be the reason to throw money for a useless cause?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I usually get in trouble with some readers of this blog with these comments. They tell me about the &#8220;history&#8221; and the &#8220;tradition&#8221; associated with Potter County Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; as the Globe-News noted in its editorial, they tore Yankee Stadium down to build a new ballpark with the same name. I&#8217;m quite sure that The Babe, The Iron Horse, Joltin&#8217; Joe and The Mick all would have objected greatly. But the New York Yankees are still playing ball &#8212; and the city got over the demolition of The House That Ruth Built.<\/p>\n<p>Potter County&#8217;s ballpark has outlived its usefulness. It&#8217;s time for it to go. Sooner, rather than later.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like revisiting an issue that has been discussed before on this blog. It&#8217;s the fate of Potter County Memorial Stadium. The Amarillo Globe-News has put forward a notion that the stadium&#8217;s demolition ought to be an option. I&#8217;ll take it a step beyond. Take the damn thing down! Let me count the reasons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tear it down! Tear it down!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[179,1436,3153,3677,5365],"class_list":["post-29384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agn-media","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-mpev","tag-potter-county","tag-potter-county-memorial-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29386,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29384\/revisions\/29386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}