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Robin Vos stated on March 09, 2023 in Podcast:
“When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game's salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So, if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away."
By D.L. Davis• May 12, 2023
Mike Plant stated on November 20, 2013 in an interview:
"No one in the country has ever built a brand new sports facility and created this kind of development at the same time."
By Eric Stirgus• November 22, 2013
Sherrod Brown stated on August 04, 2011 in an appearance on MSNBC:
"Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies."
By Tom Feran• August 29, 2011
Sam Adams stated on September 07, 2010 in John Canzano's radio show:
Says "$30 million gap" in stadium funding forced the Portland Beavers to leave.
By Brad Schmidt• September 29, 2010
Yvette McGee Brown stated on June 22, 2010 in speech on urban issues:
"The first professional baseball team was from an Ohio city."
By Aaron Marshall• July 30, 2010
Bloggers stated on January 26, 2020 in a post on Facebook:
"NEW INFO SAYS KOBE BRYANT AND ALL 4 OF HIS DAUGHTER HAVE DIED FROM HELICOPTER CRASH."
By Tom Kertscher• January 27, 2020
Atlanta Braves stated on December 13, 2010 in a history on team website:
The Atlanta Braves are "the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America."
By Eric Stirgus• December 14, 2010
Facebook posts stated on September 05, 2022 in a video on Facebook:
Joe Biden called Pope Francis the “famous African American baseball player in America."
By Andy Nguyen• September 13, 2022
Tony Evers stated on March 08, 2023 in Twitter:
The money for upgrades to the Milwaukee Brewers stadium in Evers’ budget is "a bipartisan plan."
By D.L. Davis• March 28, 2023
Lincoln Chafee stated on July 27, 2010 in in a comment on the John DePetro Show:
"I remember one of [Curt Schilling's] teammates said he painted his sock, the bloody sock."
By Cynthia Needham• July 27, 2010
Duriya Farooqui stated on February 13, 2013 in a presentation:
"Of the 18 stadiums built from 2004 to 2013, 47 percent of the total cost came from public sources."
By Eric Stirgus• March 1, 2013
Americans United for Change stated on October 12, 2009 in a television advertisement:
"Baseball and insurance are the only industries exempt from antitrust laws."
By Louis Jacobson• October 13, 2009
Stuart Sternberg stated on June 21, 2010 in a press statement:
The Tampa Bay Rays' "prices have been judged the most affordable in all of professional sports."
By Aaron Sharockman• June 24, 2010
Jeffrey Loria stated on February 24, 2013 in an ad:
The majority of public funding for the Marlins stadium "came from hotel taxes, the burden of which is incurred by tourists who are visiting our city, NOT the resident taxpayers."
By Amy Sherman• March 5, 2013
Curt Schilling stated on August 10, 2019 in a tweet:
Law-abiding gun owners stop crimes "2.5 million times a year," according to the federal Centers for Disease Control.
By Tom Kertscher• August 14, 2019
EmpireSports.co stated on February 28, 2014 in a headline:
"Colorado Rockies baseball team to sell marijuana brownies at their concession stands."
By Joshua Gillin• April 2, 2017
Kelly Ayotte stated on October 24, 2013 in a town hall meeting in Hudson, N.H.:
The deficit this year could pay "all of the 2013 salaries of every professional baseball player for the next 248 years."
By Kaitlin Mulhere• November 18, 2013
Ron DeSantis stated on June 17, 2023 in a tweet:
Protests of (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) at a Los Angeles Dodgers game led to a "virtually empty stadium for the game itself.”
By Jeff Cercone, Amy Sherman• June 19, 2023
Rob Portman stated on September 06, 2012 in a news release:
The national debt of $16 trillion, is "enough to buy both the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds 1,918 times."
By Tom Feran• September 21, 2012
Ben Affleck stated on October 03, 2014 in an interview on "Real Time with Bill Maher":
The Islamic State is so small it "couldn't fill a Double A ballpark in Charleston, W. Va."
By Katie Sanders• October 7, 2014

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