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Post by Chilehead on Mar 14, 2008 8:47:34 GMT -5
Mark Lamping's 13 1/2-year tenure as Cardinals team president is coming to an end. Lamping confirmed on Friday morning that he is leaving the organization to take a job as the head of the new Meadowlands stadium authority in New Jersey. During Lamping's stretch as club president, the Cardinals have enjoyed one of the most successful stretches in the lengthy history of the franchise. He hired general manager Walt Jocketty, who hired manager Tony La Russa, and that management team oversaw a run that included seven postseason appearances, two National League pennants and the 2006 World Series championship. A lifelong St. Louisan, Lamping simply couldn't pass up the opportunity to head up the building of the new facility for the New York Giants and Jets. mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080314&content_id=2425847&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
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Post by Osprey on Mar 14, 2008 9:45:38 GMT -5
that's just great...
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Post by okayplayer on Mar 14, 2008 10:18:26 GMT -5
Now we can suffer through a new 90's where we were terrible and it took a Mark Lamping to pull us out
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Post by renoman on Mar 14, 2008 12:58:09 GMT -5
Wonder when DeWitt's will sell? Maybe a year or two...
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Post by Chilehead on Mar 14, 2008 14:14:52 GMT -5
DeWitt the third has taken over as president...
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Post by okayplayer on Mar 14, 2008 14:26:21 GMT -5
They'll sell as soon as the stadium is closer to being paid off
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Post by Osprey on Mar 14, 2008 14:40:46 GMT -5
They'll sell as soon as the stadium is closer to being paid off or after BallPark Village gets built... I heard today that the project is in trouble again...
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Post by Chilehead on Mar 14, 2008 21:12:15 GMT -5
I am thinking of investing in ballpark village. Not as an investor per se, but buying one of the apartments or suites that come available.
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Post by renoman on Mar 14, 2008 21:36:27 GMT -5
You couldn't pay me to live down there, that's just me, but good luck!
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Post by Osprey on Mar 15, 2008 14:50:58 GMT -5
I am thinking of investing in ballpark village. Not as an investor per se, but buying one of the apartments or suites that come available. I would absolutely love to live down there - unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to talk anybody else into it. I'd have to be single and that's too high a price...
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Post by Chilehead on Mar 15, 2008 15:05:36 GMT -5
I wouldn't buy it to live there. I'd buy it as an investment. I think that they will triple in value in five to seven years. Buy in for three or four hundred thou and sell in five years for over a million.
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Post by okayplayer on Mar 17, 2008 11:25:59 GMT -5
It's not bad down here. I live about a mile south of the stadium and really, I would love to live in one of those apts. I'd also like to buy one and rent it out.
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