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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Going, Going, Gondola!
Last year we told you that Howard needed to get special permission to build a “moat” with his new home in Belleair Beach, Florida, which is located just a bit south of Clearwater and Clearwater Beach. The “moat” is - technically - a lazy river, which is not quite as awesome, but significantly more useful (unless of course Howard plans on fighting off medieval curveball hurling troops… in which case he’ll probably need a moat, too).
Howard paid $3.5 million for the lot in February 2011, and construction will get underway this month on the 17,500 square-foot mansion, estimated to cost $23 million.
The home, which will be built on land that occupies over an acre of Gulf-front property, will include a “Venice-style lazy river running from the swimming pool underneath a series of bridges” and a bowling alley with breakaway walls.
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1. Comic Strip Person Posted: April 11, 2012 at 09:43 PM (#4104556)NSFT
Similar ROI as the Phillies. If they're lucky.
Most Valuable Property?
It's wrong, but I love how the Japanese people in our week long meeting pronounce "Deliverable"
The article doesn't reveal Howard's true plans for the lazy river.
What? No one told me! Journalism in this country is a joke.
Today I was reading about Venetian Bridge Wars. From around 1400-1700 working class Venetians would use sticks or just their fists in massive mock battles between the various sections of the city - either as a kind of popular culture carnival or organized by the city to show off to visiting dignitaries.
Yet another example of why the 17th century would be awesome to visit (as an honoured guest), but suck to live in.
EDIT: My thoughts on time travel run roughly parallel with Keira Knightley's I guess.
But 17th century Venice would be extremely dangerous even to visit for a curious historian like you. A stranger asking questions about Venice's power structures and class relations? Puzzling, but it's probably best to disappear him quietly.
That is the main problem posed by first-hand historical research. Most people in the 17th century are highly suspicious of people asking too many questions. For instance, I don't think I'd last long in 1620s London if I went around asking..."so what influence do you feel King James' practice of sodomy has on his claim to political authority?"
Yeah but you would have ducked The Plague. The 17th century had all sorts of awesome things happen within it ... it was the living example of the "stumbling toward enlightenment" quote.
Prince Fielder's doesn't have that but it does have human pins.
What does that even mean? Does he want to host kids' birthday parties and then crash through the walls dressed like a pitcher of sugar water yelling "OH YEAH!!"
Is there another reason to get rich?
Maybe not the Plague. But various plagues hit England pretty severely in the 17th century. One more or less shut down London in 1625.
Better strippers...
One possibility. The bowling alley could be situated below flood level, and by code, any home on or near the water with improvements below flood level must be constructed with breakaway walls so that in the case of a hurricane related storm surge, the walls fall away relieving stress on the overall structure. If that is the case, it's puzzling why one would include that information in a short article like this. It's just basic building code information. It would be like including "The home is equipped with a chef's kitchen with GFI outlets in the walls."
I guess if I were famous I'd want to be able to have more fun inside my house. Sounds like it sucks though.
I was referring to the 1665-1666 variety - is that what you meant?
I feel the same way. Most of the people I've known who have or build these huge places are all excited about them before they get in, then use all the stuff the first year or so they're in there, then it just becomes a huge house full of empty rooms for the next twenty.
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