Comments on: Arena plunged into Rebel turmoil

By: SteveC

SteveC — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:26:37 +0000

I was visiting family in KC and picked up “The Pitch” because of the headline and the cover (a confederate flag in KC? hmmm).I admit I was completely taken in Why? I have been practicing architecture for 30 years and I have seen stuff happen on projects that makes this supposed incident a cakewalk. Hats off to Heidi, she did her research. But hats off to The Pitch as well. We live in a time when the outlandish is commonplace and any sense of rationality is out the window.

By: Kyle Sullivan

Kyle Sullivan — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:51:01 +0000

The Sprint Center will be a DISASTER, anyway, regardless of the truth of this story.

Realize –

this arena is being built via an illegal collusion between private and public power. The CEO of DST, who sits on the city council and who bought up most of the land that will be used to build the facility (knowing full well that the city meant to build there), is raking in MASSIVE profits in an insider real estate deal with the city.

The city still has the bond outstanding from Kemper that was floated in the 1970s. THEY HAVEN’T EVEN BEGUN TO PAY OFF THE PRINCIPAL YET. Do you really think the city can support another Arena if it can’t pay for Kemper?

The taxpayers will ultimately shoulder the financial burden this Arena will cause the city.

Downtown has nowhere near the traffic infrastructure to handle the traffic influx of the arena. This will ruin downtown for small businesses.

This is just a sampling of the LITANY of terrible problems will beset the city if the arena gets built.

I urge the citizens of KCMO to oppose this new development will all their energies.

By: DTS

DTS — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 13:39:11 +0000

Put me in the minority of those who say hat’s off to the Pitch. I thought it was hilarious. I can see possibly being fooled if I only read the first couple paragraphs, but the story got more outrageous as it went on. Come on — Don’t vex the whores of Kansas? KC Sharecroppers? Arena modeled after Tara? These unbelievable notions made the hoax a fair one, I believe.

By: NewsGuy

NewsGuy — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:00:17 +0000

HaHaHa…

Slow news week, so lets MAKE UP a story.

Pitch? Exactly what I’ll do to ANY future copy of that waste of perfectly good trees (and bandwidth since I USED to read it online).

Disgusting….

By: heidi

heidi — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 04:05:54 +0000

Thanks T & B KC….RSS feeds rule! Saw it here first through Bloglines, so didn’t know you had it up too, Tony. (But local blogs as “powerful”? Dunno ’bout that quite yet… ) Yeah, drunk blogging is more magnified than drunk dialing… ;>

Tony O…sorry, didn’t notice the book title you’re so proud of during my skimming of the story.

By: Jim S

Jim S — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:47:44 +0000

“However, hats to the Pitch for an elaborate and well-crafted hoax.”. No. No paper that ever, ever wants to print any story that it would like for the public to take seriously should EVER be willingly involved in any hoax of any kind. It doesn’t matter how patently silly some of the things in the “story” are.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:04:05 +0000

Hey Ryan tell us how you really feel :p

By: Hippster

Hippster — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:50:07 +0000

Easy, Tiger. I thought it was a pretty funny article. I agree with Tony that the title to that book was ridiculous. The notion of a Confederacy Hall of Fame was also very good.

I know everyone thinks Republicans are evil racist theocrats, but did you guys really think that Blunt was thinking about turning our majestic Arena Football stadium into a shrine to the Confederacy? Come on.

And if not for Pitch, how would we know that popular good bands are shit and unknown crappy bands are actually excellent?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:58:58 +0000

I guess it’s true that ‘PitchWeekly’ is in fact instructions on what to do with the rag, rather than the name of a respectable publication. New Times needs to fuck off, and KC needs to attract a legit local alternative weekly. I’m tired of New Time’s bullshit hoaxes and fabricated satire. If I want that shit I will read The Onion. Fuck you Tony Ortega, and fuck you New Times.

By: ScooterJ

ScooterJ — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:11:11 +0000

I was wondering if there was something phony going on. I had taken a picture on May 1 of the site where the article said the bodies were found on April 25, and digging hadn’t even started yet on that block at that time.