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Does Lexington have a minor league aka the old Cap City Bombers with a new stadium ? It wouldn't surprise me if they joined the stadium arms race in their quest for central city status
As far as the condition of the parks. Unfortunately many Columbians take parks for granted or simply don't go to any and think they are something for "those" people especially when it comes to those with rec programs. Doesn't seem to be a solid constiuency city wide mostly only folks advocating for their neighborhood park like say Earlewood thus Finlay and Riverfront with no built in constiuency get lost
No. There are territorial rights guaranteed in professional baseball. Lexington is too close to host a minor league team.
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Originally Posted by Simpsonvilllian
the Bombers moved to Greenville and changed their name.
A new team came in from Mobile, and played in the capital city stadum for awhile, and then moved to Lexington and changed name to Lexington County Blowfish (the blowfish is based on Hootie and the blowfish who went to USC)
Mobile? I think you're mistaken. The Blowfish were an expansion team in the Coastal Plain League. Alabama has never been part of the CPL footprint and there's never been a CPL team in Mobile (the league is wholly in VA, NC, SC, and just recently expanded to GA with the Savannah Bananas). The only team in Mobile is the BayBears, a Double-A Southern League affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. They're actually the original Charlotte Knights (who relocated to Nashville, TN in 1993 after Charlotte became a Triple-A market and played as the Nashville Xpress for 2 seasons before relocating to Wilmington, NC to be the Port City Roosters for another 2 seasons before finally settling down in Mobile where they've been for the past 20 years).
I've seen it, and I would be livid if I were an owner of one of those houses and were faced with looking at that ugly building blocking the skyline. At least the rendering shows the tacky diving-board-looking thing at the top of the waterfall will be history.
I live in Lexington and I spend a good deal of time in downtown Columbia. I am amazed at how many people I know in Lexington that do not go to downtown Columbia.
I wonder why that is? Part of me suspects that there is a certain degree of "anti city" sentiment no different than in many other places where people who live in town outside of a central city boasting that they have no use for the central city and are perfectly content with a suburban or small town lifestyle. I think its pronounced here along political lines in term of the big Republican and Democrat divide. Additionally.. both Coble and Benjamin are loathed by my friends in Lexington.. because of some of their grand ideas.. They categorize them as "big city politicians" playing fast and furious with tax dollars which seems counter to the politicos in Lexington. Im sure someone will say it has to do with race also... which may be more of a subtle nuance as opposed to overt which may reflect more again on the politics. Many people I know from Lexington feel that that gangs and homeless people are running rampant in the streets of Columbia..Again I think some people love to not know what really is going on in an area and thus assume what's going on in a place in order to make themselves feel more comfortable or insulated from the ills of society because its "over there" and not in ones back yard...This could be may own assumption about Lexington and thus round and round we go.....
For me it's more just the hassle of fighting increasingly heavy traffic between where I live and the city proper, and an often-overwhelming desire to not be in it. I do enjoy being in the city, but far less so getting to it. I couldn't say how typical that is versus the politics/race/provincialism triumvirate, though.
I wonder why that is? Part of me suspects that there is a certain degree of "anti city" sentiment no different than in many other places where people who live in town outside of a central city boasting that they have no use for the central city and are perfectly content with a suburban or small town lifestyle. I think its pronounced here along political lines in term of the big Republican and Democrat divide. Additionally.. both Coble and Benjamin are loathed by my friends in Lexington.. because of some of their grand ideas.. They categorize them as "big city politicians" playing fast and furious with tax dollars which seems counter to the politicos in Lexington. Im sure someone will say it has to do with race also... which may be more of a subtle nuance as opposed to overt which may reflect more again on the politics. Many people I know from Lexington feel that that gangs and homeless people are running rampant in the streets of Columbia..Again I think some people love to not know what really is going on in an area and thus assume what's going on in a place in order to make themselves feel more comfortable or insulated from the ills of society because its "over there" and not in ones back yard...This could be may own assumption about Lexington and thus round and round we go.....
When I first moved to Columbia in 2010, downtown was just not worth going to. Streets deserted after 5pm, overall dirty, many vacant buildings/stores, beggars, homeless, etc. That has all changed for the better yet it will be sometime before many reconnect with downtown, but it is starting to happen.
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