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The Taylor's and the Kavanaugh's are under no responsibility to maintain the city's public parks or athletic fields for them.

Has anyone here been to DeSoto Park within the last week and seen it in person?  Or are some of you calling it "neglected" because of a Google screenshot?  Provided the goals, fields, walking paths, benches, and other things are being maintained by the city, what's the problem?  It seems to work well for the adult leagues that have regularly used it for years.  Not every public athletic facility has to have the same amenities as an MLS training compound or even Forest Park's Central Fields.  This is a small neighborhood park...not a regional destination.

Does anyone else find this whole thing a little humorous?  One user posts an old Google satellite shot of nearby fields with an "lol, um, oh man..." as if it was some sort of gotcha moment.  Ridiculous.  DeSoto Park and it's fields are the responsibility of the city.  If they want to start a public campaign to restore parks and athletic fields (similar to the campaigns carried out by Forest Park Forever, Tower Grove, GRG, etc.) and solicit donations from the private sector, then so be it.  I have no doubt the Taylor's and others would provide funding, much as they have to those and many other foundations.  If the Taylor's want to approach the city and throw some MORE money at things, like these fields, then so be it.  But honestly some of these comments here read like a small handful of you are just looking for things to get upset about.

Never mind that their eventual youth programs will probably include things like creating spaces to play in neighborhoods anyway lol:

St. Louis City SC’s academy model will eventually expand to include a total of four youth teams, plus an under-21 development team.

The organization also plans to provide free community training to kids under 13, create more green spaces in neighborhoods and develop programs to train coaches at high schools and other youth clubs.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/sports/ ... th-academy

Cool off and let them get their team and stadium built first.

dweebe wrote: ↑

May 19, 2021

sc4mayor wrote: ↑

May 18, 2021

The Taylor's and the Kavanaugh's are under no responsibility to maintain the city's public parks or athletic fields for them.

Has anyone here been to DeSoto Park within the last week and seen it in person?  Or are some of you calling it "neglected" because of a Google screenshot?  Provided the goals, fields, walking paths, benches, and other things are being maintained by the city, what's the problem?  It seems to work well for the adult leagues that have regularly used it for years.  Not every public athletic facility has to have the same amenities as an MLS training compound or even Forest Park's Central Fields.  This is a small neighborhood park...not a regional destination.

Does anyone else find this whole thing a little humorous?  One user posts an old Google satellite shot of nearby fields with an "lol, um, oh man..." as if it was some sort of gotcha moment.  Ridiculous.  DeSoto Park and it's fields are the responsibility of the city.  If they want to start a public campaign to restore parks and athletic fields (similar to the campaigns carried out by Forest Park Forever, Tower Grove, GRG, etc.) and solicit donations from the private sector, then so be it.  I have no doubt the Taylor's and others would provide funding, much as they have to those and many other foundations.  If the Taylor's want to approach the city and throw some MORE money at things, like these fields, then so be it.  But honestly some of these comments here read like a small handful of you are just looking for things to get upset about.

Never mind that their eventual youth programs will probably include things like creating spaces to play in neighborhoods anyway lol:

Cool off and let them get their team and stadium built first.

Yes, I go by the field pretty much every weekend and see what is going on there. This last weekend I even had to stop for a ball that was kicked into the street and got wedged under my front bumper. The fields aren't bad: but they could be better and feature some amenities that other city park sport fields have.

And you say that we are trying a "gotcha!" or demanding current action. All I was saying that IF the Taylors and Kavanaughs in the future were to institute a program to help soccer fields (like the Cardinals do with baseball and the Blues do with hockey) that DeSoto park should be at the top of the list at that time. I'm not demanding it right now and I don't feel that it was an outlandish idea to float. 

However I apologize if this seems like too much and offended you in some way. If I can correct this further or clarify the statement(s) that upset anyone, please let me know.

My comments weren't really directed at you...

To, yet again, share what I said on the previous page:

sc4mayor wrote:^ I imagine something like that will be included in this:
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/sports/ ... th-academy

St. Louis City SC’s academy model will eventually expand to include a total of four youth teams, plus an under-21 development team.

The organization also plans to provide free community training to kids under 13, create more green spaces in neighborhoods and develop programs to train coaches at high schools and other youth clubs.

I think these programs will have a very sizable effect on building the game across St. Louis.

But I certainly don’t have a problem with the Taylor’s doing even more...

St. Louis City will launch team in new MLS development league next year
https://www.stltoday.com/sports/soccer/ ... cd47c.html

St. Louis City SC, the local Major League Soccer expansion team, won’t start play until 2023 but will be active before then. The club will have an under-17 and under-16 academy team starting this fall and, it was announced Monday, a team in the MLS developmental league that will start in March of 2022.

“St. Louis is really well poised to take advantage of what a lower-division league affords us in timing and as part of the build toward the first team in 2023,” said Vin Ko, director of team operations for City.

The league, as yet unnamed and with only a few details revealed, will serve as a bridge between MLS Next, the youth league in which the academy teams will compete, and MLS itself. It will consist of team‘s owned by MLS clubs and teams not affiliated with MLS.

St. Louis City SC unveils Together Credit Union as team's second major corporate sponsor
https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... 0#cxrecs_s

City SC’s Kindle Betz said the deep St. Louis ties of each of its first two corporate partners is a credit to the region and its corporate culture. 

“We have great local corporations. To be able to find these partnerships, where even though we’re new, we’re still using the history and the traditions of St. Louis, what a great story to tell people around the world," she said. "Our first two founding partners started here, they have been successful here, (have) the history here. It’s an opportunity I think for the whole entire region to tell the story."

Kindle Betz said City SC expects to announce additional corporate partnerships by year’s end. That could include a stadium naming rights deal, she said.