A few details could help lure baseball

A few details could help lure baseball: "A few details could help lure baseball
Thursday, January 12, 2006
I 'm not sure what it is about the topic of major league baseball that instantly divides Portland, but that is the prevailing dynamic.
Unfortunately, the dialogue crumbles into a baseball vs. schools harangue faster than Ichiro Suzuki can run to first base. That is what happened this week when Portland Mayor Tom Potter raised the specter of school funding after being asked about public financing for a big league ballpark.
I talked to Potter on Wednesday. I respect him for being cautious about committing tax dollars to a stadium. But he's in left field when he immediately invokes the school-funding issue. Oregon schools will face a fiscal crisis whether baseball comes here. Our state's flawed tax structure guarantees that. "