Depends if they sit in Diamond Box or Uecker seats. Unless you mean through the sales tax.

That's hard to pin down, because the Wisconsin Department of Revenue only tallies how much the entire five-county area has pitched in. At last count, it was $302 million.

Some analysts predicted Racine County would end up paying 10 percent of the bill, said Doug Stansil, the county appointee to the stadium board. That estimate came in 1995, the year the 0.1 percent tax kicked in. If it were dead-on - a big "if" - it'd mean we've picked up $30 million of the tab.

The date could shift earlier or later based on how loose southeastern Wisconsinites are with their cash and how the district's investments perform, but Stansil said the tax could be sent to the showers between 2014 and 2018. Hopefully by then a couple of World Series banners will be hanging from the retractable roof.

Because Tom Friedel resigned his seat to temporarily become Racine mayor, shouldn't he have to run to become an alderman again?

Trying to glue the pieces of the mayor's office back together in 3 1/2 months was probably enough of a dogfight.

His intent was always to return to the Council after the special election. But, even if his was meant to be a one-way ticket out of alderman-hood, an ordinance allows the City Council to fill its own vacancies, Assistant City Attorney Scott Letteney said.

Aldermen could also choose to wait it out and fill the seat by election, as they did after Pete Karas resigned in 2007. One difference is that seat was up for election in a few months, anyway, while Friedel is locked in until next spring.

How many times do you have to walk around the track at Horlick High School to walk a mile?

You must mean the outdoor track. That's a quarter-mile loop, so four laps would do it. Newer tracks typically use metric measurements, but that puppy was built when meters were only something the gas company read.

Bowling balls to spare

Bowling balls are like race horses. They have plenty of work to do after they're retired, without the outrageous stud fees.

Judging from the responses I'm still receiving to a reader's offer, lots of people use the balls for crafts, landscaping and who knows what else. That reader quickly found a home for all of hers.

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