(McClean) Intéressant de Bloomberg… les Rays pourraient décider de ne pas réparer le Tropicana Field et de simplement jouer à des matchs au George Steinbrenner Field (terrain d’entraînement de printemps des Yankees, capacité 11K) jusqu’à ce qu’un nouveau stade soit construit.
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Par Mission-Guidance4782
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Well. If it’s planning on being demolished. Might be a cost effective solution. However 2 teams now playing in non MLB parks doesn’t seem ideal.
Having 2 MLB teams playing in minor league ballparks truly is brilliant
Capacity of 11,000? They wouldn’t sell that out if the Rays made the World Series. Go for it.
The boss would have said no
Honestly the rays playing home games at George Steinbrenner field would be hilarious. I’m for it
Yankees would gladly take their cut of the revenue, I’m sure.
Rays fan: « I’d love to see a packed house for a Rays home playoff game »
*Monkey paw curls*
The truth is that if George Steinbrenner Field wasn’t already there, the Rays would be wise to build a whole new stadium RIGHT in that location. It’s the perfect location for a MLB stadium and would allow for overlap with Raymond James like exists in other cities that have MLB and NFL stadiums next to each other. I’m mildly surprised that the Rays never tried to propose buying the facility (probably way too expensive) or trying to find some way to swap the St. Petersburg land for it (probably way too legally iffy).
(Although personally I feel like Orlando would be a better spot- presumably with some additional bleachers put up to get to a higher attendance- simply because then they wouldn’t have to literally play in a division rival’s ST stadium.)
I wondered if they might do this. When is the new ballpark scheduled to be completed?
And the Tarpons would play where?
400 fans will look way worse there than in the trop because there’ll be enough light to see how few there are. But I guess there is either way now.
Tampa bay rays of Oakland
How long would it take to re-tarp?
There’s a stadium available in Oakland they can use
Too many seats, think smaller
Just wait until they find out about the short porch!
Does anyone know the dimensions…
Surely the league can’t allow this. If they tried to punish and fine the brewers last year bc their stadium wasn’t up to some sort of par, how can they let another team just not repair their stadium and play at a practice field?
Sir, a second short porch has just hit the AL East.
The only reason this is even a discussion is because of Jon Fisher’s cheap ass. The league absolutely needs to step in and force the sale of the A’s to prevent 7% of the league playing in sub-professional facilities.
The Tampa Bay Rays finally have a home in Tampa.
First thought I had is that they play with just the one or two roof panels. Seems like a home field advantage.
Damn. Really wanted to go to a game there 🙁