You talk to jai-alai players, ex-players, with management, you follow different web sites and I get the idea that jai-alai does not know where is heading, sort of confusion invades all. In Florida nobody knows about the outcome of the negotiations among the State, the Seminoles and the Pari-Mutuel industry. Jai-alai as an industry is an endangered species that nobody knows if it will survive for years or will disappear in a couple of months. Not that bad here in the Basque. Although the presence of two companies, Master jai and Jai-Alive, may be seen as a sign of a good health. I'm not that sure. They depend too much on the Basque Public Television as the main income, beginning next years' January 1st both companies will get the same share, until then as it happened till now Master Jai is the only beneficiary. What is going to be Master Jai's strategy in the future? Will they produce and then sell the product to any tv network, Basque Television included? If this is the case, the other company may be relegated to a weak dependable situation. I have the feeling that there is not place for two companies here in the Basque. Will the French Government finally allow betting in the frontons next year, as expected? What is happening with young amateur players? the few motivated to become pro, that their only chance to make a debut is doing it in Florida? What players from Florida will come over the Basque next year for the summer season? Definitively, new blood is needed. New ideas, action is neded. Here is a nice story. A teacher was working with kids in a summer camp. One afternoon the educator proposed the kids to go outside and come back in a half hour with the biggest object they could find. What a surprise after the half hour passed: a well over 20 meters trayler entered into the camp touching the claxon. One kid had gone to a nearby highway stopping different trucks untill he convinced one. This way he got into the camp with the biggest object he could it found: a twenty meter long truck. When we know what to do in life wondeful things happen.
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Maimi Jai-Alai ought to sign that kid up and put him to work in Marketing :)
ReplyDeleteIn regards to Florida, it comes down to politics and greed. You have a governor that signed a one sided compact virtually giving the indians a monopoly and completely disregarding the ailing pari-mutuel industry, an industry that has been faithfully paying taxes to the state since the 1930s' and provides over 20,000 jobs. Orlando Jai-Alai just announced their closing, I hope this unfortunate event sends a strong signal to the Florida Legislature to reject this compact and level the playing field for the pari-mutel industry.
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