After fleecing the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County, the “City Fathers (and Mothers . . .  we stand for equality here) have compounded their ignorance with bad business. Even Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama would know to lower prices, get fans into empty seats and sell hot dogs and beer and ballpark prices! Nope, they’re shuttering half the little stadium after wasting billions on what the taxpayers didn’t need, while enriching private interests, special pleaders and crony “capitalists.”

For a bit of background, we bring you Wikipedia:

Marlins Park is . . . located in Miami, Florida. It is the current home of the Miami Marlins, the city’s Major League Baseball franchise.  It is located on 17 acres of the former Miami Orange Bowl site in Little Havana, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Downtown.  . .

Marlins Park was also LEED certified as the “greenest” MLB park in 2012. The building is the sixth MLB stadium to have a retractable roof. With a seating capacity of 37,442, it is the third-smallest stadium in Major League Baseball by official capacity, and the smallest by actual capacity.

Despite consensus among sports people . . . that Miami needs this type of venue for professional baseball, Marlins Park has been a source of controversy in South Florida ever since it was proposed. The stadium’s public-funding plan—which would eventually strap a $2.4 billion debt to Miami-Dade County alone—led to a protracted lawsuit, largely contributed to the ouster of several local politicians, and triggered an SEC investigation. As revelations of the team’s finances and their handling of payroll (both before and after construction) seemed to contradict some of the premises on which the tax-funded-stadium deal were based, the ballpark controversy intensifies. (Emphasis added.)