This. These fields and complexes are going to be booked solid for as much of the year as weather will allow. This place will be a huge regional and maybe even national draw for all kinds of tournaments.
Massive Field of Dreams Expansion
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He's actually a fantastic comedian. Saw him circa 2012 in Des Moines.
Even if they do not have games booked people will be shocked just how in demand having available fields are in metro areas just to hold a practice. The complex I play adult rec softball in Clive had to start locking the fields and forcing little leagues to rent the fields for practice because they were becoming so over-run with that. They'd tear up the fields with their practices and the city figured they may as well be paying fees like the rest of the people that use the fields have to so they are helping pay the costs to maintain the fields too. I don't think anyone batted an eye at paying to rent the fields when they did that because they are supposedly so hard to find open fields anywhere around the metro.
It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I don't remember it looking like the renderings.
The place was a dump and the movie is terrible anyway. Good for Dubuque County
Field of Dreams is timeless Americana, and timeless Americana is taking something good and wholesome and commercializing the life out of it. So to me it all checks out.
I don't think there's anything more uniquely "middle class dad" than walking into a youth sports facility and saying "boy someone's making a killing off of this."
My personal favorite is the 2 day tournaments that could be accomplished in one day just so they can charge you admission for 2 days.
Might need to go see it before it becomes so commercialized.
I doubt any of the money made stays in Dyersville either.
I doubt any of the money made stays in Dyersville either.
Admission is chump change. The real money is in the kick-backs from the designated hotels you are required to stay in if you are coming from out of town.
And make sure the visiting teams have a Friday night game, a Saturday game (instead of two Saturday games) and a Sunday game so you get two nights of those hotel rooms.
