The recent media release relating to the construction of a $700 million cricket stadium in the GTA has prompted a cynical response on Twitter, led by US based journalist Peter Della Penna.
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\n Peter Della Penna \u200f@PeterDellaPenna
\nAn article was published online today about a $700m cricket stadium approved to be built in Canada. If it sounds absurd, it’s because it is.<\/p>\n
Peter Della Penna \u200f@PeterDellaPenna
\nIn fact, for a brief moment, I had to check to make sure I was not reading The Onion instead of the cricket site where it actually appeared.<\/p>\n
Jamie Harrison \u200f@JamieCricketUSA
\n@PeterDellaPenna Feasibility aside, I’d rather have a dozen University Ovals in Dunedin than one mega-stadium. We need grounds, not stadia.<\/p>\n
You Have The Write \u200f@youhavethewrite
\n@JamieCricketUSA @PeterDellaPenna 700 million dollars? Are they bidding to host the wc? Absurd.<\/p>\n
Jamie Harrison \u200f@JamieCricketUSA
\n@youhavethewrite @PeterDellaPenna It’s all predicated on the existence of (yet another) super-mega-hyper Cricket Premier League. [yawn]<\/p>\n
You Have The Write \u200f@youhavethewrite
\n@JamieCricketUSA @PeterDellaPenna its the bs of people that think grassroots level cricket is some sort of cricket-mole hybrid animal.<\/p>\n
Peter Della Penna \u200f@PeterDellaPenna
\nMy favorite quote from fantasy filled Canada stadium piece: “There isn\u2019t a stadium anywhere in the world like the one we intend to build.”<\/p>\n
Peter Della Penna \u200f@PeterDellaPenna 24m
\nVery true. There isn’t a stadium anywhere in the world like it…. nor will there ever be because it will never ever be built in Canada.<\/p>\n
Craig Burley \u200f@craig_burley 14m
\n.@PeterDellaPenna exactly; as I said to a friend the other day, it is someone’s pipedream in press release format.<\/p>\n
Peter Della Penna \u200f@PeterDellaPenna 8m
\nRT @sdayanand We are struggling to build a new baseball stadium for the Blue Jays and yeah, we’ll get a cricket stadium. Bollocks.<\/p>\n
Peter Della Penna \u200f@PeterDellaPenna
\n“You know how the $6m Indianapolis and $70m Florida cricket stadiums failed. Let’s do a $700m one in Canada! I swear it’ll work this time!”<\/p>\n
Jarrod Kimber \u200f@ajarrodkimber
\nI\u2019m planning on building a $17,000,000,0000,000 cricket stadium. I don\u2019t have any money or land. But I\u2019m planning it.<\/p>\n
Peter Della Penna \u200f@PeterDellaPenna
\n“The proposed stadium, which does not yet have a confirmed location nor publicly revealed backers.” Did I mention I’m also selling bridges?<\/p>\n
Andrew Nixon \u200f@andrewnixon79
\nThe odds of this $700 million cricket stadium in Toronto happening are roughly the same as the odds of ICC letting an associate play Tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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