Ko disclosed even more Ma era documents, revealing that Ma administration knew the Far Glory altered design would not meet safety and fire safety regulations. However, in order to meet the 40,000-seat requirement that Taipei city originally had in mind, Far Glory was let off a loop hole. The correct thing to do would have been asking Far Glory to go back to their original design.
Since it is now too late, Ko is closing that loop hole and demanding safety and fire safety requirement be met by reducing number of seats down to 20 to 30 thousand. That would make the stadium less profitable for professional teams.
No it wouldnât. Theyâre playing at professional level. And theyâd go play for whoever pays them the most anyway: Japan, US, if theyâre given a chance.
Itâs just like any other career, and everybody wants the job you have, and theyâll do a lot of things to get your job.
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Why would language be an issue? Just have interepreters like every big sports team in the world. Manchester City has more Spanish speakers than English.[/quote]
Yourâe right. It wouldnât. Plenty of Taiwanese players playing overseas, and plenty of foreign players playing in Taiwan.
Only the stats, potential, and revenue-driving capability count. Fans pay for performance. No performance? Not worth paying to watch then.
No it wouldnât. Theyâre playing at professional level. And theyâd go play for whoever pays them the most anyway: Japan, US, if theyâre given a chance.
Itâs just like any other career, and everybody wants the job you have, and theyâll do a lot of things to get your job.[/quote]
works well in theory without discrimination, not so well with discrimination.
by the way, just because some really great players were able to raise above the muck, it doesnât mean discrimination donât exist and itâs ok to treat status quo as ânormalâ or âhow it should beâ. That would be like saying there was no discrimination in the MLB back in the 50s, because Jackie Robinson made it. Or that no discrimination exists now in the US because now thereâs a black president.
No it wouldnât. Theyâre playing at professional level. And theyâd go play for whoever pays them the most anyway: Japan, US, if theyâre given a chance.
Itâs just like any other career, and everybody wants the job you have, and theyâll do a lot of things to get your job.[/quote]
works well in theory without discrimination, not so well with discrimination.
by the way, just because some really great players were able to raise above the muck, it doesnât mean discrimination donât exist and itâs ok to treat status quo as ânormalâ or âhow it should beâ. That would be like saying there was no discrimination in the MLB back in the 50s, because Jackie Robinson made it. Or that no discrimination exists now in the US because now thereâs a black president.[/quote]
Iâm very sure I didnât say discrimination didnât exist in sports or that itâs okay. I only said that it wouldnât be a problem for NPB to expand into Taiwan. If they discriminated against Taiwanese then they wouldnât even want this market, would they?
Individual acts of discrimination by one player against another donât concern me at all, at professional level.
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Iâm very sure I didnât say discrimination didnât exist in sports or that itâs okay. I only said that it wouldnât be a problem for NPB to expand into Taiwan. If they discriminated against Taiwanese then they wouldnât even want this market, would they?[/quote]
and they donât, they have no interest of having an expansion team here.
After years of faking that they are just going to walk, and stalling to get the public frustrated at Mayor Ko for not handling the issue as promptly as he had promised, the Farglory group finally caved.
Last week Farglory said they are walking, and have wanted to walk for a long time, today theyâve finally submitted plans that matches their original approved design to meet safety requirements.
Does this mean that the current structure will be ripped down since FG didnât follow their original safety plans?
I was talking to this with family when we passed it in the car. Aside from it not following the approved designs, thereâs gotta be some kind of metal corrosion or structural damage after natural disasters that the structure has gone through that make it unsafe to continue construction.
I donât think the entire structure will get ripped down. Probably just the portion that deviated from the original floor plan. Donât think itâs gonna be that easy though.
Just the portion that deviated? Refresh my memory here, but wasnât the original structure not suppose to be that high and that big? The idea was not to belittle itâs neighboring SYS Memorial Hall.
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WTF is the Universade anyway? [/quote]
Exactly.
Seems this is another one of these âinternationalâ pseudo-events the Republic of China likes to host, like the Flora Expo, Deaflympics etc. Lord knows how they find these things and what theyâve got lined up next. A maths olympiad for guide dogs, perhaps?
âIf the Taipei Dome âis not torn down, it means it will be built,â Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (ćŻćĺ˛) said yesterday in response to Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiunâs (ééşĺ) request that the Taipei City Government clarify its stance on whether the project would be finished.â
Thatâs as much as a non-answer.
âThe structure has taken up so much space that there was no room left to build evacuation passages, Ko said, adding that an 80m-wide underpass connecting the Dome with the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall could serve as an evacuation tunnel.â
The width is necessary to meet the key spec, which is ability to completely evacuate a full stadium within a fixed period of time. They fucked it up so badly.
Supposedly there are two big issues. One the stadium and pitch size doesnât fit international tournament regulations for baseball.
Two there was a lack of suitable emergency exits.
How this could have been permitted to happen is mind boggling. Of course the plans and construction were changed after original planning was approved. Crazy stuff.
