Mock El Paso Times put me on to this story from KTSM.
The news anchor tells us that some of the people that submitted potential names for our new baseball team are getting calls from telemarketers. The reason for the calls is to sell season tickets.
He then tells us ” Still no word yet on exactly how much those tickets will cost.”
The story just does not make sense. How can they be trying to sell season tickets without telling us how much they will cost?
Then again
Thinking about this again, that is exactly what has happened with the construction of the arena. City staff told city council (and thus us) that the stadium would cost $50 million. We are now north of $62 million. The city manager recently told council that we will not know the cost until all of the bids are in.
We bought a stadium without knowing how much it will cost.
Lottery tickets
Then again buying season tickets now seems like more of a gesture of moral support than a prudent purchase.
We don’t even know that the arena will be finished. The city manager told us the other day that if the financing bonds do not sell she will have to stop construction.
Also we do not know if the arena will be finished in time for next year’s season. According to the city manager they have not even received all of the bids, much less contracted for the work.
If the costs go up again city staff will have to go back to council (sitting as the Downtown Development Corporation) to ask for more money.
Things could happen between now and then. Buying the tickets now seems like the triumph of hope over reason.
Muckraker
elpasospeak 
You would think that a guy named Brutus would realize that the “Age of Reason” ended in the late 18th century. I don’t see a renaissance anytime soon — at least not locally.
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