Comments about ‘St. George franchise ceases operation; lack of beer sales blamed’

Who wants to watch third-rate semi-pro baseball? Football maybe. Basketball maybe. Baseball no. Not in Utah. Beer sales or not.

Wonder if this is whats hurting the ute ticket sales too?

No beer at a baseball game? Beer at a baseball is just like peanuts and Cracker Jacks

This isn't rookie ball - most the players on the team were AA or AAA players. STG just lost some good baseball. I'll miss going to the games...

It is too bad. The only sport that brings a lot of people is High School football and Basketball in St. George. Our businesses supported this league as much as we could. Good luck owners of the team, hope it works out somewhere else for you.

"Who wants to watch third-rate semi-pro baseball? Football maybe. "


They fill up that 65,000 seat stadium in Provo with it.

Whether the Roadrunners would have survived even with beer sales is open to question - they moved to St George based on growth projections that were themselves based on housing starts instead of actual people moving to St George. But the simple fact is that the denial of the ability to sell beer ultimately is a tax increase on everyone, because the stadium rent paid by the Roadrunners is now lost revenue, and will have to be made up elsewhere. The rent significantly exceeded the operational cost of the games, and that financial loss will have to be made up by local taxpayers.

And they only wanted to sell 3.2 beer, anyway - if you weigh more than 125 pounds, you'd explode your bladder before you could drink enough of that to get tipsy, let alone intoxicated.

Beer has nothing to do with it. Saint George is ignorant and horrible at supporting local businesses unless someone in their ward works there or their bishop tells them to shop there. This is why major chains and local businees fail alike. Roadrunner baseball being shut down for the 2nd time in 2 years is nothing different than the closing of Famous Daves. Big hype surrounds any business when it starts then because its not LDS its not supported over the long term and eventually fails. This attitude is why Saint George is above the national average in forclosures, unsold houseing inventory, and unemployment.

"Saint George is ignorant and horrible at supporting local businesses unless someone in their ward works there or their bishop tells them to shop there." This is bunk. Most of St. George is filled with Snow Birds and teenagers that can't afford the products offered. I would have loved to see the RoadRunner games, but couldn't afford the tickets. You don't see Wal-Mart or Best Buy shut down. They are not LDS businesses.