Rays New Stadium

[steveringo]

Any TB fans out here? Plans have been out for a while... Not sure if they will go through this time...

https://www.mlb.com/rays/ballpark/historic-gas-plant

My only request would be one low scaffold crossing the outfield. (The only good part about their current shitty ball park are the fly balls bouncing off the ceiling - still in play.)

 

[redskinsfan1963]

i,m a lifelong cubs fan,but i bet my cousins in florida go to a lot of ray games.

 

[fightinfunbags]

Not sure why anyone invests in pro sports in this market.

 

[Cedrique]

Any TB fans out here? Plans have been out for a while... Not sure if they will go through this time...

https://www.mlb.com/rays/ballpark/historic-gas-plant

My only request would be one low scaffold crossing the outfield. (The only good part about their current shitty ball park are the fly balls bouncing off the ceiling - still in play.)


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You know what would make it really cool is if they put it in Charlotte or Nashville or something

 

[Pure Steel]

Not sure why anyone invests in pro sports in this market.

Marlins are doing real well……

 

[ill]

they deserve it, good for them

 

[fightinfunbags]

they deserve it, good for them

You sure? Despite limited payroll the Rays have had one of the better run organizations in the league. Yet their stadium is always empty. North Florida is a rotten sports market. Floribama is a college community

 

[ThomasTomasz]

You sure? Despite limited payroll the Rays have had one of the better run organizations in the league. Yet their stadium is always empty. North Florida is a rotten sports market. Floribama is a college community

I think at this point, I have to agree. At least for baseball. MLB seems determined to make this market work, however, while also being determined to let the Athletics leave Oakland.

 

[Xeliou66]

It’s weird to me that the Florida teams struggle to attract fans - because Florida has a lot of baseball fans. Maybe it’s because the Marlins are a poorly run franchise with a bunch of clowns in the front office while the Rays stadium is one of MLB’s worst - no excuse for the balls hitting the roof of it.

 

[ill]

It’s weird to me that the Florida teams struggle to attract fans - because Florida has a lot of baseball fans. Maybe it’s because the Marlins are a poorly run franchise with a bunch of clowns in the front office while the Rays stadium is one of MLB’s worst - no excuse for the balls hitting the roof of it.

I think it is because FL is a lot of transplants...so they pull for the team they grew up watching.

 

[fightinfunbags]

It’s weird to me that the Florida teams struggle to attract fans - because Florida has a lot of baseball fans. Maybe it’s because the Marlins are a poorly run franchise with a bunch of clowns in the front office while the Rays stadium is one of MLB’s worst - no excuse for the balls hitting the roof of it.

Transplants. They like other teams. They were raised in a family where the older generations followed other teams as well.

For sports, much of the south is college > pro.

 

[fightinfunbags]

I think it is because FL is a lot of transplants...so they pull for the team they grew up watching.

Ninjaed.

 

[ill]

Transplants. They like other teams. They were raised in a family where the older generations followed other teams as well.

For sports, much of the south is college > pro.

I always thought the same thing about DC...it's a transplant city and the Nats would never get a fanbase...but I was wrong.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

I always thought the same thing about DC...it's a transplant city and the Nats would never get a fanbase...but I was wrong.

There are a ton of fans in the NOVA/Southern MD area who were tired of the Orioles for whatever reason, and they adopted the Nats because they were the new local team, or they stopped being Orioles fans.

It’s the reason that Peter Angelos fought so hard to keep them out of there, and negotiated that awful deal for the Nats in regards to MASN that is now preventing the Lerner family from actually selling the team.

 

[fightinfunbags]

I always thought the same thing about DC...it's a transplant city and the Nats would never get a fanbase...but I was wrong.

I had always read that Northern Virginia was baseball crazed.

 

[ill]

There are a ton of fans in the NOVA/Southern MD area who were tired of the Orioles for whatever reason, and they adopted the Nats because they were the new local team, or they stopped being Orioles fans.

It’s the reason that Peter Angelos fought so hard to keep them out of there, and negotiated that awful deal for the Nats in regards to MASN that is now preventing the Lerner family from actually selling the team.

oh I know...I am in SoMD

 

[ill]

I had always read that Northern Virginia was baseball crazed.

they are...there is a big crowd there. It was a good place to put a team.

 

[redskinsfan1963]

You know what would make it really cool is if they put it in Charlotte or Nashville or something

did,nt charlotte put down a football stadium a month or two back?

 

[Sir Robin Of Camelot]

Any TB fans out here? Plans have been out for a while... Not sure if they will go through this time...

https://www.mlb.com/rays/ballpark/historic-gas-plant

My only request would be one low scaffold crossing the outfield. (The only good part about their current shitty ball park are the fly balls bouncing off the ceiling - still in play.)


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I’ve been to the Trop. As bad as the innards are, the location just past the bridge might be the the worst thing about it. I’m not too familiar with the downtown area where it’s going to end up (hopefully for my coworkers who do follow the team and score me tickets whenever I’m in Tampa) but it HAS to be a better location than the current one.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

oh I know...I am in SoMD

Oh nice, grew up sorta there, but at the northern end of it.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t expect the Nats to become as big as they did, especially considering their struggles early on, but folks here are very loyal. They are long-suffering Redskins/Commanders fans and Capitals fans.