I had your basic,

“When did this baseball stadium idea originate?”

on September 25th.

So, I sent a Freedom of Information request to McHenry County College asking for

“the last document in which the Fitness and Wellness Center complex was not the first priority to be built.”

I also asked for

“Copies of the first five documents that show or mention the possibility of the Fitness and Wellness Center/baseball stadium complex moving to the front of the line for construction in the college’s master plan.”

Can’t do it.

“FOIA is not intended to disrupt the duly-undertaken work of the public body in responding to a FOIA request,”

special MCC attorney Howard Metz, replied in a letter dated October 4th, but not received until October 9th.

Five days to deliver a letter from Chicago. Not so hot even with Columbus Day as one of the days.

Does that mean college officials don’t want unfavorable facts to surface before the zoning vote?

Metz usually emails denials, so I figure it was mailed just to slow things down until after the zoning vote of the Crystal Lake City Council on October 16th.

The denial certainly can’t be because no one at MCC remembers when Crystal Lake City Manager Gary Mayerhofer came up with the idea from his Libertyville buddies Mark Houser and Pete Heitman.

And it can’t be a trade secret.

Nobody can get me to believe that college officials don’t know when the master plan was amended to include a baseball stadium.

I wonder if there will be a spectacular recovery of memory after the city council approves the zoning of the baseball stadium.

Or, am I being just too conspiratorial?