Wednesday, December 07, 2005

sports village or alcohol asylum

so the local, outdoor, "traditional" skatepark has just been closed for the winter, and closed forever. turns out that this palce they called "the sports village" is nothing of the sort. basically it's a bar surrounded by activites that draw people to drink. clearly, now, this place is centred around this bar. not the activities aka sports per say. they are just devices to lure people into the bar.

their first device is hockey, only because hockey parents seem to ingest more alcohol and food than any other sport. there are a number of baseball fields in the area so i guess that's their summer device of choice. but since they can't have baseball closer to the bar, they needed to come up with something else. yeah, there was a skatepark there that hundreds of kids used but there's a problem - they dont drink alcohol! the bar can't make money off kids attending the sports village for sport. so they ditched the skatepark for their new venture, beach volleyball. that should bring more adults to the bar. they have a climbing wall that they spent a ridiculous amount of money to do what it does - look like a huge piece of feces sticking out of the ground. too bad the only people that occassional use that are kids, who again, don't drink alcohol.

this place needs to get their priorities straight. they need to change their name and get rid off all the sports/devices there, cut to the chase and replace them with a larger bar and some adult entertainment or something of that nature. it might be just me but wouldn't it be a more intelligent idea to update the facitlities around the "sports village"? out more money into the park, which is really the only of its kind in southern ontario? im pretty sure if they made a top-of-the-line park, something that could be run in the winter too, they wouldn't have to worry so much about the bar. skateboarding? "extreme" sports? who does that? but then again, that's with the sports as the priority, not the bar. here's an idea: maybe think of it LOGICALLY! bars not making money, CLOSE THE BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

completely ridiculous.

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