Grab your peanuts 🥜 your Cracker Jack 🍿 and maybe a therapy helmet 🪖 because the plot twist on this multimillion dollar ballpark is something straight out of a sitcom nobody asked for.
Bradley proudly opened a shiny twelve field, fully turfed, travel sports spectacle 💰💰💰
The kind of place that makes parents say “we are going to nationals someday” even though little Timmy still can’t catch.
They spent millions building it
They expanded it
They went over budget
Then over budget again
Then surprise someone realized
“Uh… where does all the equipment go?” 😐
Apparently the original maintenance building was about the size of a walk in closet at IKEA 📦
For a sports complex the size of a small airport 🛫
🎬 If This Were a Baseball Game
1st inning: “Let’s build the coolest ballpark in Illinois” 🥳
4th inning: “Wow this is expensive but it’s fine” 😅
7th inning: “Tourism baby tourism” 💸
9th inning: “So… where do we put the tractors?”
Entire stadium: 🤡🤡🤡
🤣 Meme Mode Activated
SpongeBob: “We spent fifty million dollars but forgot the shed yessir that’s peak planning” 🧽
Drake format:
Top panel ➡️ Turf everything, baby 🌱
Bottom panel ➡️ Storage building? Nah ❌
Patrick Star:
“Put it all outside and pray winter takes a break” ❄️😭
The Office:
Michael Scott: “It’s happening everybody stay calm”
Also Michael: “Wait we forgot the building” 🫠
Galaxy Brain:
Small brain: buy mower
Big brain: buy 12 fields
Galaxy brain: no space to put mower so buy new building for 1 million dollars 💫🧠
🧪 The Budget Science Experiment
Step 1: Build sports complex ⚾
Step 2: Realize maintenance equipment exists 🧹
Step 3: Spend another million like it’s snack money 🍪
Step 4: Pretend this was totally part of the plan 😎
Documentary Title Suggestions 📺
- “Field of Dreams and Storage Nightmares”
- “The Shed Forgotten Around the World”
- “Extreme Makeover Municipal Edition”
- “Oops We Did It Again: Taxpayer Remix” 🎤
Final Pitch 🎤
Look I love community projects
I love baseball
I love fun facilities
But I also really love the ancient mystical spell known as
Write. Down. The. Basics. ✍️🧙♂️
Anyway good luck to the new maintenance building
May it stand tall forever like a monument to
“Bro… how did we miss that” 🫡🏗️