It Is Not About Money, It Is About MORE Money
I have been trying to figure out why I am so upset about the imminent loss of Rosenblatt Stadium and the abandonment of a site with years of tradition. You know, the grandma and apple pie kind of thing. Instead your electred officials, acting like dictators, have turned their backs on the voters, the tradition of CWS and Omaha history once again (no surprise there) in supporting the building of a new antiseptic concrete stadium set in a Disneyland like sterile landscape.
Interestingly my out of town friends think Rosenblatt is just fine as it is for fans. It is loved and enjoyed by most 'big city' folks for its ability to invoke a sense of nestalgia and simpler time. That would be a time when the NCAA, baseball and sports at large was not just about making MORE money, amping up on drugs or persuing a rock star life style.
Remember the movie with the famous saying "Show me the money"? What we all fail to remember is that the decision and support for abandoning Rosenblatt is not about local business and the NCAA making money off the College World Series but about making even MORE money. Yes, developers, speculators, the NCAA and the Chamber of Commerce will all be making loads more money. Some of this money then in turn winds up in the pockets of our local politicians in the form of campaign donations. They call it special interest politics.
These groups can't be satisfied (or happy) with the Omaha we love and know. That would be those things that make Omaha unique and different from all other places on earth. No, according to the Mayor and Jack we have to be like everyone else and make our city like every place else.
Marketing101 tells you that you never want your product or service(read stadium) to turn into a commodity (just like every other stadium in the nation). You do that by differentiation of your product or service. WE already have the best differentiated product and in an updated historic stadium that sits nobly on a hill top. The site where for 50 years the CWS has been held and that has a nestalgic feel that can't be replicated anywhere on earth in any modern stadium. What we are loosing is our competetive edge and it will come back to haunt and cost us down the road.
Interestingly my out of town friends think Rosenblatt is just fine as it is for fans. It is loved and enjoyed by most 'big city' folks for its ability to invoke a sense of nestalgia and simpler time. That would be a time when the NCAA, baseball and sports at large was not just about making MORE money, amping up on drugs or persuing a rock star life style.
Remember the movie with the famous saying "Show me the money"? What we all fail to remember is that the decision and support for abandoning Rosenblatt is not about local business and the NCAA making money off the College World Series but about making even MORE money. Yes, developers, speculators, the NCAA and the Chamber of Commerce will all be making loads more money. Some of this money then in turn winds up in the pockets of our local politicians in the form of campaign donations. They call it special interest politics.
These groups can't be satisfied (or happy) with the Omaha we love and know. That would be those things that make Omaha unique and different from all other places on earth. No, according to the Mayor and Jack we have to be like everyone else and make our city like every place else.
Marketing101 tells you that you never want your product or service(read stadium) to turn into a commodity (just like every other stadium in the nation). You do that by differentiation of your product or service. WE already have the best differentiated product and in an updated historic stadium that sits nobly on a hill top. The site where for 50 years the CWS has been held and that has a nestalgic feel that can't be replicated anywhere on earth in any modern stadium. What we are loosing is our competetive edge and it will come back to haunt and cost us down the road.
posted by Mr Midtown at 6:14 PM
1 Comments:
I can't tell you how saddened I am that Rosenblatt is losing CWS. You are right... the special draw about CWS is wrapped up in the nostolgia.
Old time baseball, apple pie.... but I suppose the next couple of years of College players will learn to love the big glamorous style of CWS play.... but the folks who've been coming back year after year after year... sadly, they lose the most.
no wait, Omaha loses the most... because mark my words... I predict that Omaha will lose CWS in short order because there will not be anything special about having it Omaha.
Rosenblatt made it special. Now it'll just be another bland experience wrapped up in a discarded wad of cash.
I hate this decision and I don't even live there anymore!!!
Wah!!
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