Oh well, the Atlanta Braves chose Sarasota instead of John Prince Park. . .

But there’s still the matter of those recent emails sent from the president and vice president of ROLO neighborhood (acronym explained below), located on the outskirts of the City. Here are short excepts from those emails, ROLO’s president channeling former Commissioner Cara Jennings:

[City Manager] Michael Bornstein, Your an A@&h#le plain and simple . . . the trashing of you will be worse and worse. . . . God should be the judge of all of you.

Lake Worth’s “Mayor Pam” Triolo wearing an Atlanta Braves baseball cap doing her best to promote Lake Worth. Now hope you enjoy this stroll down memory lane to April 2016, the hapless travails of the stumbling malcontents of ROLO: 

This quite funny blog post below is from last April when “the pulling of hair” was at its apex over a Spring Training facility in John Prince Park (stay tuned, remember, “It ain’t over til it’s over!”). Palm Beach Post reporter Joe Capozzi penned a quite humorous article about what happened in 2016. . . ironically, an effort that began a few days earlier, on April Fools Day. 

It’s time to get excited again!!! And as always, Thank You for visiting my Lake Worth blog.

A small group in Lake Worth called the Residences (not to be confused with “Residents”) of Lake Osborne (ROLO) had more “bumps in the road” as you’ll read in a quite humorous article by Joe Capozzi of the The Insider blog later on in this blog post.

First a refresher: ROLO’s claim of representing the Lake Osborne neighborhood located west of I-95 and south of Lake Worth Road has been debunked. That debunking happened when they falsely claimed that most of that neighborhood was against a Braves Spring Training facility in John Prince Park (located in unincorporated Palm Beach County). Not only is their elected city commissioner, Scott Maxwell, a proponent of the idea but also many families and other “residences” that have actual residents are as well.

ROLO later tried to make this seem it was all a matter of confusion and miscommunication that they were claiming to represent people they weren’t actually representing. If you think it couldn’t get any worse for ROLO, well, it does. Much worse. Remember that truck with the billboard?

There still remain many unanswered questions about that billboard. Who paid for it? Did it violate state law by not having a proper disclaimer? And is it proper for any  ‘neighborhood’ organization to misrepresent the political views of their neighbors?

Now for the news from Capozzi. That billboard was courtesy of a company in Miami! Not kidding. They couldn’t find a local company? The truck broke down on the long ride up here. Also, not kidding. Plus the good folks at ROLO neglected to mention two things to the poor fellas who were tasked with driving the truck: You can’t drive billboards through John Prince Park (Ooops!) and there’s that little matter of a low-clearance bridge too (Double Ooops!).

Here are two excerpts from the article that is actually quite humorously written:

     “Protesting with a 12-ft.-plus-high billboard in John Prince Park has its challenges.
     Opponents of an idea to build a spring training complex for the Atlanta Braves in the public park west of Lake Worth hired a company to pull the billboard with a truck.”

[and. . .]

     “But the billboard arrived six hours late from Miami because the truck that was pulling it broke down Friday on Interstate 95.
     Once it arrived at the park, around 5 p.m. Friday, the truck had to change one of the routes. Turns out the billboard was too high to fit under the Six Avenue South bridge that passes above Lake Osborne Drive – an 11-ft. clearance.
     Then on Saturday, park rangers chased the truck off of the roads within the park, citing policy and safety issues.”

Since we’re on the subject of baseball in John Prince Park. . . Remember:
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
—Yogi Berra.
For now. . . there’s always next time.

*You may have heard about an area in Lake Worth referred to as the, “Hermit Kingdom”. That is a very small area within the borders of ROLO. Upon making crucial decisions for people who have no knowledge of decisions being made for them, the Hermit Kingdom has been known to send smoke signals, white and black. No one knows what the signals mean. This may pose a problem, however, for outfielders trying to catch a long ball hit in the future.