Feels like starting over...

We start with my personal Facebook post from this morning and I'll go on from there.
All permission for this material given from myself.

"Just destroyed with the results of last night.
Not for Obama v Romney,not for Roscoe Bartlett losing (he needed to go years ago and Delaney will be a one termer anyway) and not for any of the questions.
I cannot believe this town voted in two baseball hating persons to the City Council as well as a new mayor. This means that new stadium negotiations go back to square one and allows another city to potentially step into the created gap to take the Suns away.
In the end,Bob Bruchey was beaten by his inflexibility and his downtown site that was almost universally hated.
I appreciate the work that he did,but that is what beat him-not building a stadium,but where they HAD to have it.

I don't want to say goodbye Suns,but the chances increased incrementally."

Kristin Aleshire and Penny Nigh are the two most outspoken anti-Suns/new stadium candidates to run for city council and they received the most votes.

Many people here dislike Nigh the most,I'll take Aleshire as the guy that struts around at Suns games to throw the first pitch and then writes snarky notes to voters about being against a new stadium.

Either way,those two joined with Don Munson to give the anti-stadium group the majority on the council and with two returning members taking the remaining seats,the hopes for a new stadium have been reduced.

I do have some hope of convincing Don Munson the positives of a new stadium and saving the project.

I have zero hopes of anything moving Kristin Aleshire and Penny Nigh,so that would be a waste of time and breath.

Taking the above paragraph and combining it with the loss of Mayor Bob Bruchey to another anti-Suns candidate and I must say the future of Hagerstown baseball took a hit last night.

I would not say that it is over,but the foundation of a deal has been torn down and will likely have to start from scratch.

This leads into Hagerstown being in a similar situation to Winchester from the beginning of the year-having things in order and then dropping the ball.

I would be shocked to see things progress on the same track as the new mayor and councilpersons all were elected in on disliking the planned stadium and they certainly are not going to go into that with their support,although they might work with other ideas.

Bruce Quinn likely cannot be happy with these developments and it will not take more than a meeting or two with the new electees to realize that he might be back to shopping his team around to interested cities.

Quinn may have handled this a bit late in an effort to maximize profits as if he had moved earlier,this could have been finished before the election,but the city dragged their feet a bit as well.

I know next to nothing about the new mayor of Hagerstown in David Gysberts,but considering he basically ran on an "Anti-Bruchey" platform,I have low expectations for his stadium support.

In the end,the door has been opened for Winchester,Kinston,Lynchburg or anyone else to put their foot in,thanks to the voters of the city.

As John Lennon once sang-it feels like starting over.

Photo Credit:Joe Crocetta Hagerstown Herald Mail