Jeezus just stop and leave your shit takes for politics. It’s painfully obvious you’ve never played sports and most certainly not baseball past a 5th grade level nor know the Florida weather in the summer.
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Where will the Rays play their home games in 2025?
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I would definitely want pitchers throwing 95 mph near me with a ball they can’t grip and a mound they can’t trust.
They do play in the rain up to a point. Another factor is the field. When NFL teams play in heavy rain, the field gets all torn up and they have at least 6 days to add sod, condition the field and make repairs before playing on it again. In baseball, you tear it up and have to be back out there the next day and the day after that.
Go to a dirt infield like a bunch of them grew up playing on and the way baseball started. Shouldn’t take too long to rake some dirt after it gets tore up. But they you might be at the risk of a bad hop on a grounder and that would be so detrimental to the infielder you’d for sure hear about it in the sports media the next day. You don’t have to worry about the outfield getting tore up as they get 5 fly balls a game and are just standing out there the rest of the time.
It’s clear you were lazy and could only play baseball because you couldn’t get in shape for any other sport. You know the ones where running was involved aside from running to a base. How about you leave your shit takes to your family, if you have one.
I’d definitely want a 250lb guy running at and hitting me full speed when my body is frozen playing football in -10 degree weather.
Comparing apples & donuts. While baseball doesn’t see much extreme cold, I can’t recall any game ever being postponed over temperatures.
However, I have seen a couple of Workd Series games that should have been postponed by “cold”…
The biggest problem with the A's is their owner. The stadium hosted MLB games a month ago, so hosting games next season isn't a stretch. The bigger issue is travel, and I don't know if the league wants that. I can see Charlotte or Nashville getting a trial run as expansion looms.
If it isn’t too late, let the Devil Rays or whatever they are calling themselves these days move to another city. We could do without the billionaire welfare expense and St Pete will be just fine without baseball that no one currently attends.
You shut your mouth. That logo is a damned work of art—up there with the Hartford Whalers.
MLB wants the Rays to play close to home.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41944281/mlb-wants-rays-tampa-area-even-damaged-trop-unusable
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41944281/mlb-wants-rays-tampa-area-even-damaged-trop-unusable
Oof, sitting in the Florida Sun mid summer for 3 hours? Add in daily rain showers and this is a recipe for disaster.
I’ll be surprised if it’s both. I think it’ll be either or for this round. Probably with a place out west added, maybe Portland
FINALLY they get to play in front of a packed stadium!!!!
This means that two MLB teams will be playing their home games in minor league ballparks for the 2025 season.
And one minor-league team will be playing in a major league ballpark for the 2025 season
#ChicagoWhiteSox
Supposedly the home team clubhouse is nice, but that makes sense as a ST facility. I wonder how visiting teams will like their accommodations? Overall I assume the S&C, and training facilities are good.
Good….find another state to fund the welfare for billionaires and millionaires
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Tampa Bay Rays say stadium deal is halted
Despite the Rays’ warning, Pinellas County commissioners decided to again delay their vote on stadium funding until December.
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Tampa Bay metro has 3.1 million people. They could probably support a MLB team. We’ll never know, cause they put the team in St Petersburg. Stupid
I understand that. But Florida does not support them. I 100% agree they have enough population. But kind of like the Expos......people need to show up
I don’t think you get it. The team is in St Petersburg. It’s a long drive from Tampa, where the people are, to St Pete, a beautiful place with a low population
There’s nearly 1 million residents in Pinellas county. It’s the most densely populated county in Florida. It’s half the size of hillsborough. Moving the Rays to Tampa will not get people inside the stadium. It’s Florida in the summertime. Nobody wants to go to a baseball game.
1.5 million in Hillsborough. And more accessible for surrounding counties. Even Orlando. Get a retractable roof. Putting the team in St Pete was a joke. But yeah at this point it’s probably a lost cause.
I know the population of Hillsborough. My point is it’s twice the size. Doesn’t make it any more likely people will drive to go to the game. Either way, attendance will always be bottom of the league either side of the bay. I don’t begrudge them wanting out of this market.
In an effort to avoid rainouts, MLB has adjusted the Rays schedule. They will now play 69 of their last 103 games on the road.
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MLB alters Rays' schedule; 69 of last 103 on road
MLB altered the Rays' schedule to avoid weather problems at Steinbrenner Field, with 47 of their first 59 games at home and then 69 of their last 103 on the road.
I think he’ll only sell if they don’t move. Sternberg bought the franchise for a discount, if and when he ever sells it’ll be quite the windfall.
