Cleveland's baseball stadium renamed "Progressive Field" to honor Dennis Kucinich and all liberals

[Algorem]

Yay!














(there's a story out there that it's actually being renamed after an insurance company,but this is Republican/MSM disinformation)

[Captain Hilts]

1. Nothing "progressive" about the way layers of luxury boxes have ruined the view from the upper deck.

[liberal N proud]

2. And the arena next door was renamed Quickens Loans arena a few years ago

So now Cleveland can watch their P's and Q's

Quicken Loans arena is call The Q for short. :rofl:

[Blaze Diem]

3. Soon there'll be the Bank of America bailes out Countrywide Arena

Just a matter of location.

[elaineb]

4. Hot Damn!

I'm still in love with the ghost of the old stadium and have never enjoyed Jacobs Field in the same way, but I like the new name (if it has to be named for a corporation).

And, yes, it might really be named after Progressive Insurance, but I've always heard that the CEO (founder?) of the company is a huge progressive himself and a major donor to progressive causes.

So, yay!!

[Algorem]

6. I forgot about him-Peter B. Lewis!So,even even if I'm wrong,which

I'm not,I'd be right,which I am anyway.


Peter Lewis
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_B._Lewis

...

Donations

With an estimated net worth in excess of a billion dollars, Lewis frequently donates money to charities and political groups. He is a patron of the arts and supports many artistic pursuits. Lewis's personal and corporate contemporary art collection is well known—the corporate collection is displayed at Progressive Insurance offices. Lewis has made donations to:

* Princeton University (A Gehry designed science library, $60 million; the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, $55 million; arts initiative, $101 million. Total $233 million to date.)
* Case Western Reserve University (The Weatherhead School of Management Peter B. Lewis Building, another Gehry, $39.6 million, out of $61.7 spent on building the building)
* Marijuana Policy Project (Donated $3,000,000 to MPP in 2007.)
* The Guggenheim Museum ($50 million)
* America Coming Together and MoveOn.org (with George Soros matching his $10 and $2.5 million, respectively)
* American Civil Liberties Union
* The Democratic Party
* MAPS-sponsored MDMA/PTSD Research in the US, Switzerland and Israel $250,000
* Menorah Park (Peter B. Lewis Aquatic & Therapy Center)...

[elaineb]

7. Yeah, that's it, Peter Lewis

I like to imagine that I'm distantly related to him, because I'm descended from some Lewises in Cleveland. Maybe, if I am, I could talk him into sharing .0000001 percent of his fortune with me?

Oh, and I'm sure you're right ALL the time, Algorem! :)

[formerrepuke]

5. I hate it...they might just as well call it "Corporation Field"..BOOOOOO!!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. I love how insurance companies find the money to sponsor sports stadiums

What a wise investment of our insurance premiums so that the company can have a nice commerical whenever a sportcaster mentions the name of the stadium!

:sarcasm: