According to a Sunday, June 2, 2013 article in the El Paso Times, the city is preparing to let the Diablos out of their Cohen stadium lease that was scheduled to run through April 2016.
You can’t blame the Diablos. The city killed them with their AAA baseball deal.
According to the article the city will pay the Diablos $150,000 for improvements that the Diablos made to the stadium. The city will also grant $110,000 as a rent credit.
We’re not done
The Diablos evidently also owe the city money for past electric bills. Some think that the electric bills will come to about $100,000. According to the article the city manager did not have exact figures when the Times interviewed her.
Exact figures?
Figures don’t lie and liars don’t figure. How can the city manager not know the exact amount, especially after the tongue lashing she took in last week’s city council meeting?
Shameless promotion!
To make matters even worse, the city will pay the Diablos $40,000 to promote the new AAA team during the remaining Diablos games. What’s wrong with that? City council agreed to build the ball park — promoting and operating the team is the responsibility of the team owners.
My numbers come up to about $400,000 dollars here. This is tax money directly out of our pockets. We should also count the lost revenue from letting them out of the lease early.
I don’t blame the Diablos. The city has treated them poorly. For that matter the city has treated us all poorly.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Don’t forget the Tiguas get all their money from federal handouts (our tax dollars) because they are protected. They did a pitiful job of managing a baseball team and their investors actually BEGGED the city to do the Triple A ballpark – go watch the video from last June its there. Since they lost gambling they are in deep financial straits. This is a blessing.
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