Outside of an empty stadium, which for most of the past two seasons has hosted an empty team, the mayor of Atlanta was doing what mayors do best: Waxing on. Poetically, economically, politically.
“Turner Field will no longer be a baseball stadium, but it will still be a field of dreams and it will inspire a neighborhood of dreams,” Kasim Reed said.
(Shoeless Joe stand off stage, on the edge of a cornfield, waiting for his turn to speak.)
Reed then transitions from imagination to visualization: “Goodbye asphalt eyesores. Hello 21st century. Hello retail, hello residential, hello walkable streets and bike paths.