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Playing Hardball
A Downtown ballpark for the San Diego Padres would not only create additional activities for our citizens and visitors, but would also provide numerous economic benefits, allowing the proper growth and redevelopment so many of us would like to see Downtown.
The Padres are in a major league of their own when it comes to the community. I do not know of any other team that continually supports our local charitable programs and organizations. (With) all the community support and fun they have provided throughout the years, I think it is time for the community to stand up and support the Padres' dream of having their very own ballpark. San Diego could not have asked for a more deserving team.
Jodi Megna
Rancho Santa Fe
I am writing this letter in support of building a new baseball park in Downtown San Diego. I am a native San Diegan who, as a kid, remembers going to Lane Field when it was at the foot of the Broadway Pier. I am in support of this for the following reasons:
1. It will be good for San Diego as a whole and the Downtown San Diego revitalization program.
2. This will show a continuing commitment of San Diego being known as the "Finest City," that is interested in the reputation we have for both our citizens and our visitors.
3. The Padres and its current owners have done some very good things for the city with their various contributions showing their commitment to our city. They are good corporate citizens and set an example for others to follow.
4. Baseball is an excellent opportunity for families to do affordable things together, and it has not become unaffordable, as have the tickets for the San Diego Chargers.
There have been other downtown ballparks built in the recent times and all have been extremely successful. I fully support building a new ballpark in Downtown San Diego.
John Alioto
Walters Management Company
Thanks For The Warm Welcome
Just a note to thank you and your staff for helping to prepare the "Welcome to Downtown" goody bags for our employees last week and for donating 1,200 copies of your fine publication to the effort.
I must say I have never seen a happier group of employees than when our crew showed up Friday morning and found the goody bags on their desks, with coupons from Horton Plaza merchants and your magazine inside.
I hope and expect that such generosity will be rewarded by generating hundreds of long-term, loyal readers for Metropolitan Magazine.
I look forward to seeing you frequently as we settle in Downtown. Thanks again for your support.
William J. Mudge
President and CEO,
Golden Eagle Insurance Corp.
Studly Corporate Metro Men
Ah Men
I think that I shall never see
A magazine so thoroughly
Immersed with pics of snazzy men
All lookin' like Sir Spic&Span.
They dazzle us — the oppo-sex
Their "polosh" smooth — plus intellect
Each face displays his own elan.
We gals applaud "Metropolitan" Man!
M.T. Wallace
San Diego
It’s About Time
Thanks for excellent background information on the proposed new digital standard (Publisher's Column, July 1998).
It is time we (U.S.) stop being Mr. Nice Guy. It worked with the auto industry (if you do not buy our products or invest in us, we will do the same to you). We should use this approach on the European community, too, since their decision and game plans are from greed — trying to hurt the U.S., the average consumers and the world by sticking to the inferior "unified" digital standard.
Albert Nguyen
Qualcomm San Diego
Editor's Note: Nguyen's opinion is his own, and his comments are not an official statement from Qualcomm.
Hirsute Suggestion
Comment on July San Diego Scene: Now if we could only get Perry Dealy to shave his head.
Anonymous
Theater Supporter
I am in total agreement with C.A. (Al) Irvine's comments in his letter (July 1998). I have lived in New York, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. I have performed and acted in all of the above cities and more. I am a writer, director and producer. In all of the above cities there is struggling theater. The small community theaters to the large professional theaters all struggle to exist. As do the actors who perform in them. Both need support.
The theaters struggle to pay the rent and expenses. There is usually very little left for an actor. If doctors, lawyers and dentists had to work as long (years) and as hard (hours of rehearsals and performances) and for very little or no money as actors do, I don’t think we would have very many of those professionals around.
I volunteered to help with the recent production at the Balboa Theater. It is truly a beautiful theater and it would be wonderful to restore it. But if there is no support for these other theaters in town, how long before it has to shut its doors again? Does the community or the acting community benefit from this? No. I hate to say that, but it is true. Subsidize the existing theaters, subsidize the actors and do it in a way that there is no possible way to exploit the actors.
San Diego could become the top theater district in the country. It has the talent and the people with the know-how. They just don’t have the money.
Sam Younghans
San Diego
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