MLB Tropicana Field loses roof to hurricane

[LadyStanley]

Hillsborough county willing to work with team if Pinellas county deal dead.

 

[These Are The Days]

Hillsborough county willing to work with team if Pinellas county deal dead.

I actually didn't consider this but the counter offer by the Rays needs to be not fixing Tropicana Field at all. Just play at Steinbrenner until the new park is ready and on schedule. No more fighting about funds for a busted ass ballpark no one wants to fix. Either St. Pete takes that deal or they take a hike.

This is the only way forward for that deal. Otherwise, they probably have legal grounds to break the lease

 

[These Are The Days]

Tomorrow baby. Tell St. Pete to pound sand. This is classic I DIDN'T VOTE FOR THIS!! by the new brass in St. Pete. They are hiding behind the language of the contract and the Rays ghosting them as they saw this coming. Claiming that they did nothing wrong. This was a blatant act of a poor showing of faith by a city council that has stalled for almost 18 years to replace a stadium that is absolutely worthless now. What did they think was gonna happen when they did this? Get it done Ken Hagan. St. Pete has spent 4, almost 5 decades whining that they are little brother and I'll be damned if they aren't acting like it

A council that takes 9 f***ing weeks to vote for anything wants clarification by December 1st. Get the f*** out. You have no intention of paying for this ballpark. This is city gaslighting to make the team say they are causing the break up

 

[KevFu]

Montreal, Charlotte, Nashville, Portland, and Salt Lake City are the top tier. Followed by San Antonio, Orlando, Vancouer, and Mexico City in the long-shot tier.

The more I look at market saturation, the more I think Charlotte and Nashville are bad ideas.

I know that they want a Southeast team like those two markets; but both of them have TWO of the Big Four teams already and are probably "too small" to adequately support a third that isn't the cheapest of the lot.

NBA and MLB teams cost a lot of money from fans to be league-average revenue; and with the NFL coming first in both markets already, that just doesn't seem like baseball would be robust there.

I mean, the Marlins were the third team in Miami and they're incredibly not lucrative; so markets a third of the size are going to do better? The Rays are Tampa Bay's third team, third in venue location certainly, and they're not doing great financially, prompting relocation talk.

If the Rays move, it should be to Orlando, so the two markets 90 miles apart split the four teams 2 and 2, with the 1st and 4th most expensive in one market, and the 2nd and 3rd in the other. That makes total sense.

And then expansion should be Raleigh AL and Montreal NL (although I think they should go with Four Leagues, AL, NL, Pacific and Southern; which would put Raleigh in the South).

 

[aqib]

The more I look at market saturation, the more I think Charlotte and Nashville are bad ideas.

I know that they want a Southeast team like those two markets; but both of them have TWO of the Big Four teams already and are probably "too small" to adequately support a third that isn't the cheapest of the lot.

NBA and MLB teams cost a lot of money from fans to be league-average revenue; and with the NFL coming first in both markets already, that just doesn't seem like baseball would be robust there.

I mean, the Marlins were the third team in Miami and they're incredibly not lucrative; so markets a third of the size are going to do better? The Rays are Tampa Bay's third team, third in venue location certainly, and they're not doing great financially, prompting relocation talk.

If the Rays move, it should be to Orlando, so the two markets 90 miles apart split the four teams 2 and 2, with the 1st and 4th most expensive in one market, and the 2nd and 3rd in the other. That makes total sense.

And then expansion should be Raleigh AL and Montreal NL (although I think they should go with Four Leagues, AL, NL, Pacific and Southern; which would put Raleigh in the South).

The problem both the Marlins and Rays have is that worth spring training you can see all the MLB players for a fraction of the cost of a regular season ticket. Yes I know spring training isn't a real game but unlike NFL preseason I'm not paying full price.

 

[LadyStanley]

They said the agreement is still in place. But 2025 schedule is crazy... majority of home games early in season and then on the road for most of Hurricane season/rest of MLB season.

And really won't fly for 2026.

 

[These Are The Days]

Lmao @ the Rays for just punting the ball back at St. Pete after saying the deal is dead. They're basically gonna stone face this until the city council says "No stadium for you!" -not that the new members were going to support it anyway