Interesting article about the Traditions Golf Tournament in Sunriver.
Let's see. They get 30,000 people to show up, but they're desperate for more spectators.
Hey, guys. That a full 15% of the entire population of Central Oregon! What were you expecting? What was the percentage of the population of Portland that showed up when they had the tournament? Let's see, at least a million folk within half an hour of them, would be 150,000 visitors. 2 million, within an hour of them, if you really want to get down to it, so 300,000 visitors.
Actually 15% seems really good to me, since you'd have to kill me, drag my rotting corpse to the side of the golf course, turn my dulled eyes toward the action, and shoot electric bolts into my head, to get me to watch golf.
So, another example of someone just not doing the math. Someone wanting Bend to be something it isn't -- someplace that isn't rural.
Sponsors? Let's see, you need some mid-sized regional or statewide players, someone like Jen-Weld. Oh, wait. You got them. O.K. There's.....um, there is.....ah.....oh, yeah, Les Schwab. No -- they have their own boondoggle they're having trouble filling, the Amphitheater. They're busy turning into the Walmart of tires, getting all their supplies from China.
Who else?
Oh....that's right.
There aren't any.
Those are the kinds of businesses that Bend wants to attract. Despite a sub-par airport, no interstate, a four year college that is a two year college with two years added on, and....
Well, ....you know, job producing type businesses. First we have to have them, then they can sponsor a national golf tournament. But as usual, we have the national golf tournament because we want to attract those type of businesses?
I think I'll open a branch of my store in Brothers.....then Tumalo....tomorrow the world!
Let's see. They get 30,000 people to show up, but they're desperate for more spectators.
Hey, guys. That a full 15% of the entire population of Central Oregon! What were you expecting? What was the percentage of the population of Portland that showed up when they had the tournament? Let's see, at least a million folk within half an hour of them, would be 150,000 visitors. 2 million, within an hour of them, if you really want to get down to it, so 300,000 visitors.
Actually 15% seems really good to me, since you'd have to kill me, drag my rotting corpse to the side of the golf course, turn my dulled eyes toward the action, and shoot electric bolts into my head, to get me to watch golf.
So, another example of someone just not doing the math. Someone wanting Bend to be something it isn't -- someplace that isn't rural.
Sponsors? Let's see, you need some mid-sized regional or statewide players, someone like Jen-Weld. Oh, wait. You got them. O.K. There's.....um, there is.....ah.....oh, yeah, Les Schwab. No -- they have their own boondoggle they're having trouble filling, the Amphitheater. They're busy turning into the Walmart of tires, getting all their supplies from China.
Who else?
Oh....that's right.
There aren't any.
Those are the kinds of businesses that Bend wants to attract. Despite a sub-par airport, no interstate, a four year college that is a two year college with two years added on, and....
Well, ....you know, job producing type businesses. First we have to have them, then they can sponsor a national golf tournament. But as usual, we have the national golf tournament because we want to attract those type of businesses?
I think I'll open a branch of my store in Brothers.....then Tumalo....tomorrow the world!