More news about baseball in the Sun Sentinel, "I don't think we should balk"

Andy Reid at the Sun Sentinel with baseball news in Palm Beach County; from the article titled, "Palm Beach County approves $5 million baseball stadium down payment":

     Palm Beach County's baseball stadium push got a $5 million boost Tuesday in the bid to lure two more Major League Baseball teams for spring training.
     The County Commission approved spending the initial $5 million of a $135 million proposal to build a stadium, even though a deal has yet to be finalized with the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals.
     The two teams have agreed to hold spring training in West Palm Beach, if the county and state will help pay for a new $135 million stadium. Yet, finalizing the deal still depends on the Florida Legislature agreeing to remove restrictions on the proposed stadium site.
     The teams are supposed to reimburse the county for the $5 million if the stadium deal fails. But county officials think they will get the state approval needed to seal the deal.
     "I don't think we should balk," County Commissioner Hal Valeche joked Tuesday [emphasis added] about approving the $5 million for the baseball deal.

It was great to see the City of West Palm Beach and the PBC Commission work so hard to make this happen. It's not an exaggeration to say this deal saved Spring Training baseball in southeast Florida.