IMO it is lip service as usual. They need to go and visit some of the complexes in other cities and check the numbers and dollars for usage. If they made it a multiplex, baseball/basketball/soccer that would draw more then just baseball people. 

If Bakersfield can appeal and get monies for two pools (B.C. and McMutrtry) here why can't some of the baseball well to do's get together and pledge funds?

With all the high school sports in the city for surely they could host other events and games to make it viable.  Based on how things are, they need to just let the Blaze go.  Let this be a lessoned learned when another team comes to Bakersfield.  I'm partial for a return of the old B'Dodgers.

Before the economy meltdown, powers that be should have spent more time and money on this stadium instead of how they could fill their own coffers with all the new building contracts. Now many of those projects sit idle - wasted time and money.

Seems I heard before they they wouldn't allow alcohol to be served if the stadium was built on the CSUB campus.  That caused a big stir  because after all, what's baseball without an 8 dollar beer?

Well they may just have to do away with that rule...........wait, doesn't CSUB have a Pub??? At least they did!

Correction: 8 dollar skunky beer.

When I was a student at CSUB, there was a pub that served alcohol and events could apply for an alcohol permit for their events (and pay for one). That was a decade ago, but I imagine it's still the same. Probably the cost of the alcohol permit keeps most events from bothering with it.

I believe the pub still serves beer but its' only allowed there.  My guess is they don't want a bunch of drunken baseball fans driving around the campus.

Hooch makes insurance companies uncomfortable. 

I noticed a lot of the CSUs quit serving alcohol over the past three years.  They quit serving beer at the Fresno State Football games as well.  I figured it was a change in law (or in its interpretation by the CSU system).

With all the financial problems everyone is suffering right now, the thing we all need is to spend a few million on a baseball stadium. NOT. Talk about bad timing. Our tax money needs to go to schools, road repair, and things we need now. The last thing we need is another government frivolity.