The public is getting fleeced on the naming rights for our baseball stadium — to the estimated tune of $50 to $100 million. So we should resist the corporate choice for what to call it.
The Mariners finally got that sweet lease deal signed by the government this week — the one in which taxpayers were corralled into putting another $135 million into upkeep at the stadium.
But the deal is about to get sweeter. The argument that won the day for the privately-owned Mariners is that the public owns the stadium — because we built it for them — so we ought to be willing to fork over to maintain it.