To the Conspiracy Kooks: Lamping Move a No-Brainer
Good morning.
Gotta love the Internet.
When word got out that Mark Lamping was leaving the Cardinals after 13 years as team president to accept an offer to become the CEO of the new Meadowlands football-stadium and entertainment complex, the Oliver Stone wannabes immediately rushed to their laptops to speculate all sorts of things — straight out of the What’s The Frequency Kenneth? playbook.
xx Lamping was forced out.
xx Lamping wanted out.
xx This means the team is for sale, so Lamping is scrambling to get away ASAP. Sure. Lamping could never survive the sale of the team. Oh, wait a minute…. he was the team president when the Cardinals were sold in 1995. Just ruined the guy’s career, didn’t it?
xx Bill DeWitt Jr. is selling the franchise, so he’s downsizing. Got it. Right. Obviously the best move DeWitt could do to maximize a sale is to chase off his No. 1 executive who has played a huge role in dramatically elevating attendance, revenue, and franchise value. Chase off Lamping, and by doing so, lower the value of your franchise before you sell it. Brilliant logic!
xx Lamping really wanted to be Bill DeWitt Jr’s son, so he was secretly jealous of Bill DeWitt III.
xx Other DeWitts were plotting to grab Lamping and drown him in Lake DeWitt, beyond center field.
xx Lamping was really, really opposed to the Kyle Lohse signing.
xx Lamping secretly hates Budweiser and toasted ravioli and Crown Candy banana-chocolate malteds and all those happy fans wearing red.
xx Speezer was spotted on the grassy knoll.
xx Lamping just had to flee from all this misery — HE HAD TO RUN FOR HIS LIFE BEFORE THE DEWITTS DESTROYED HIM FOREVER!!!
(OK, sorry. Lost it there for a second).
But may I politely ask: are you folks fruit loops?
Is this some type of genetic thing, that forces you to automatically reach the worst and most sinister conclusion about everything?
I apologize for being sane — really, I do — but please permit me to try and ease the suspicious minds who simply can’t help themselves from concocting bizarro theories.
And the simple truth? Lamping had nothing left to achieve here.
That’s it. Really.
(Yeah, you say — but what about the Ballpark Village? No, sorry, Sparky. He’s not involved in that project. Never has been).
And Lamping doesn’t run the baseball operation.
He doesn’t trade for players, sign free agents, supervise the draft or the minors. He did assist DeWitt Jr. in the interviews of general manager candidates last fall, but that’s about it on the baseball side.
From the business-marketing-administrative standpoint, let’s look at what Lamping has done with the Cardinals. Let’s look at his checklist of things to do…
Celebrate the phasing out of the old Busch stadium — check.
Develop and open the new Busch stadium – check.
Modifications to the new stadium — check.
Record-setting team revenues — check.
Record-setting home attendance — check.
Long-term media deals in place for TV-radio — check.
Being honored approximately 1,296 times for various Man of the Year awards in the STL — check.
Get an upcoming MLB All-Star game here — check.
Sell, sell, sell, everything that has a Cardinal logo — check, check, check.
So, pray tell — what the heck was keeping Lamping here? I assume he loves to eat linguine on The Hill, and maybe he likes to watch his alma mater (Vianney) play soccer on occasion, but what else?
Lamping has been in the same job for a long time. He’s lived in the same town virtually his entire life.
Lamping has had other chances to leave, but didn’t want to uproot his wife, Cheryl, and their three kids.
But the little Lampings are all grown up now. They’re ages 26, 23 and 19. They don’t live at home.
If any married couple was ready for a new adventure, it was Mark and Cheryl.
He’s 49, and the years go by pretty fast.
Lamping had a big move left in him.
And it just so happens that TWO PRESTIGIOUS NFL TEAMS, after sorting through dozens of top sports executives in North America wanted HIM to supervise the construction, operation, and all facets of a WORLD-CLASS, $1.4 BILLION, STADIUM-ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX that qualifies as the the MOST AMBITIOUS STADIUM PROJECT IN NFL HISTORY. And it’s situated 12 miles from THE MOST EXCITING CITY ON THE PLANET.
And the Giants and the Jets chose Lamping from 16 final candidates, and chose him after an intensive round of interviews, which is pretty damned flattering… and they offered him a boatload of money… lots and lots of money… and a five-year deal… and Mark and Cheryl have a chance to live in Manhattan, to see what it’s like on the biggest stage of them all. And he can hire his own staff to run everything. He can be Trump. And if he misses St. Louis, one day he can come back, because he’s exceptional at what he does, and there will be a prominent spot for him in this market if he wants it.
And why would Lamping turn that down? It makes perfect sense for him to take on this new challenge at this stage of his life, and his career. He’d be crazy not to do it. Not as loopy as the What’s the Frequency Kenneth? folks, but awfully close…
–B
Lake Dewitt?
Grassy Knoll.
Bernie you outdid yourself, good stuff
Bernie,
Thanks for being the “sane” one!
There he goes and good luck to him. I have no ideas what others have been speculating about Lamping, but I happen to find a good conspiracy entertaining, myself. Unfortunately history is laced with many unsavory conspiracies that aren’t entertaining for those that suffered through them. Since the word has in recent history become linked with mentally ill individuals, it seems the majority of people don’t understand its true meaning anymore.Sounds like a conspiracy of ignorance to me, I’m just sure Mr.Lamping and his conspirators are behind it all.Where’s Deep Throat when you need him?
Bernie, Bernie, Bernie, you and the rest your friends in the “Reality based community” are so blinded by your “logic” and “facts” you fail to see the Jon Daly in front of your face. It’s so obvious the connection between, Lamping, and Jocketty’s exit, La Russa’s DUI, the conspiracy against Spiezio, the strangely similar deaths of Hancock and Darrel Porter, Vince Foster’s “suicide” and Ron Brown’s plane crash, the Clinton’s role in the Steve Carlton trade, the death of John Paul II so soon after he met Mark McGwire, (what did he tell him?), and the Don Deckinger call. This conspiracy goes all the way up to Gentry Trotter and Steve Mizzarani (the Bevo Mill is next to us).If you’re going to go through life with blinders on, at least get a seeing eye dog.
I personally think he left because he wanted to.
Statistics show that most of us are going to change jobs 20 times in our lifetime.
He has all that money, knowledge, and ability to do what he wants.
I would do the exact same thing. What a privaledge to move through life doing so
many great things!
Are people jealous? No, I do not think so. I give Card fans more credit.
But just suppose that he wants to move because building this thing at New York
is the BIGGEST thing going on in sports. I am sure the facility will rock.
To have your name stamped on it - Priceless.
cblues
Oh, Bernie we all know that Lamping was forced out of the Presidents job! Little Billy wanted that job! So Daddy got it for him, by having some clowns out east make up a job to give to Lamping so that he would go away!
I mean c’mon Bernie, what job on the face of the Earth could possibly be better than being President of the Greatest team ever? Really?!? Making a stadium for two NFL teams on the East Coast is bigger than a team that draws 3 million fans to fill a stadium 81 times a season?
It was a coup! Poor Mark was done in by the guy in the sewer as he drove by! Really!
The internet is full of kooks? Really?
Shock and Awe.
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