With $800M Safeco Field deal, it feels like taxpayers are about to get toasted

It hit me as I was listening this past week to the Seattle Mariners make their pitch for yet more public money: We might as well just tear down Safeco Field and build a new one.

I know, I know — that’s insane. Nobody would offer up such a ludicrous idea. Not even the Mariners (though give them some time).

After all, the ballpark is only 19 years young. Attendance is the highest in 10 years. Why revisit all that