Jim Bouton on the Stadiums of Selig

"Bouton is emphatic in his condemnation of Selig and MLB ownership in general over their ongoing program of using public money to construct new stadiums. Bouton finds the concept disgusting, and 'worst of all,' he laments, 'they aren't even embarrassed about it.' That any private, for-profit commercial enterprise should demand taxpayers to fund its facilities is bad enough, Bouton fumes, but it's most appalling in an economically troubled municipality such as Washington, D.C. 'How anyone could walk through the public schools of Washington, D.C.,' Bouton wonders, 'and then say that paying for a new professional baseball stadium should be that city's priority, amazes me.'" (HardballTimes)