OT Baseball and Football Coming to Portland?

[BonesJones]

More money to be made in Portland than Eugene..

I don't think Eugene would even have a 0.01 chance of happening

 

[santeesioux]

We should be talking about the Medford metro area at this rate.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Eugene would pull it off....some state of the art sports facilities have been built around here and they've got a minor league team already...they also have the land and Phil Knight basically is everyone's landlord here anyway. Tracktown USA....hotels...parking...The Emeralds...U of O facilities...airport...it would work in Eugene

Not even close to happening. Eugene doesn't have the population to sustain the ticket sales for either one when competing with the Ducks expensive tickets and Portlanders aren't going to commute for weeknight baseball and Id be wiling to bet Sunday football. Right now a large percentage commute for Ducks games, but thatch because its on a Saturday and you have a day to recover

 

[riverman]

Not even close to happening. Eugene doesn't have the population to sustain the ticket sales for either one when competing with the Ducks expensive tickets and Portlanders aren't going to commute for weeknight baseball and Id be wiling to bet Sunday football. Right now a large percentage commute for Ducks games, but thatch because its on a Saturday and you have a day to recover

Ducks tickets for basketball are cheap dude..last time I went to Mathew Knight Arena I paid 18 bucks..they fill Autzen Stadium to capacity for the football team...from Corvalis to Bend to Florence there are a lot of retired folks who buy season tickets.....Eugene Symphony sells out all the time....either way....I want professional baseball in Oregon....

 

[Orion Bailey]

Ducks tickets for basketball are cheap dude..last time I went to Mathew Knight Arena I paid 18 bucks..they fill Autzen Stadium to capacity for the football team...from Corvalis to Bend to Florence there are a lot of retired folks who buy season tickets.....Eugene Symphony sells out all the time....either way....I want professional baseball in Oregon....

I was speaking of football tickets, which are expensive.
Baseball wont happen because Eugene would need ot rely on the Portland populus and we wont be driving down for weeknight games, or day games. Weekends only and that wouldn't cut it.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Now Salem might be feasable. Portland commuters could make the trip.

The Salem Suckers

Cause the only way it would happen is if we voted it in.

 

[Minstrel]

Salem Witches.

And before some history nerd comes along to scream, "Wrong Salem!" no, it isn't. Because the witch trials happened in Salem, Massachusetts, that means witches clearly flourished in Salem, Oregon. And so the team is named after them.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Baseball is doable, football isn't.

Tear down the MC, and build a beautiful baseball stadium. Name the team the Oregon Anglers, everytime the team scores we have a designated Fishing Boat shoot fireworks from the water.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Screw the other tribes. I haven't heard of them trying to get on board since the proposal was rejected. If they really cared about making it work, we would have heard from them. And where folks choose to gamble is a casino problem, not a tax payer problem. If we get an MLB stadium in the PDX metro area, then the PDX metro area will benefit economically and that is supposed to be the first priority. The Grande Ronde tribe certainly didn't seem to share your concerns when they made the proposal. But then, the white man has always looked out for the best interests of the red man, right.....?

Spirit Mountain has been a bully to other tribes. They fought tooth and nail to prevent the Warm Springs tribe to locate a casino on I-84, they have paid millions to prevent Chinook Winds to ever expand at Lincoln City. They spent tens of millions to try to stop the casino in La Center. They want a monopoly on the Portland area and are willing to screw other tribes to do it. I see no advantage to accepting a proposal that only benefits one NW tribe.

We have prime land and water available for casino spaces that should be put up for open bid so the city and region maximizes the most out of this opportunity.

I have been to every casino in the PNW, go to Muckleshoot, their business model is to suck money out of the local area, the area around there is horribly depressed. Then go to Tulalip casino where their business model has been to attract tourism, beautiful hotel, amphitheater, and the surrounding area is prospering.

Right now the very few big conventions we get here in Portland the #1 activity is to bus convention goers out to Troutdale to the outlet mall and then on to Multnomah Falls. That's very little money being spent in Portland and providing the promised economic boost from the twice expanded taxpayer funded convention center.

Just because Spirit Mountain offered us what you consider a good deal doesn't mean it's the best deal we could demand. Open bidding will get us a better deal.

And as far as your white man crack my stepkids are native.

 

[ripcityboy]

I don't want to a ballbuster. But can somebody please site an online source of any recent date that this discussion is even relevant? I mean, an outside interest want a to bring Baseball and Football here.... The Four W's and an H please.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Baseball is doable, football isn't.

Tear down the MC, and build a beautiful baseball stadium. Name the team the Oregon Anglers, everytime the team scores we have a designated Fishing Boat shoot fireworks from the water.

Leave the MC and that area alone. A new stadium should be the anchor for development in underdeveloped areas of the city. Like someone else said the perfect location is in Industrial NW Portland. Multiple freeway accesses and easy to expand the existing streetcar line. Also that area will eventually go the way that the South Waterfront area has but the majority of the land is currently a superfund site. A stadium with Forest Park on one side and the Willamette on the other would be gorgeous and an anchor for future growth.

The area around the MC is already built and developed and the I-5/I-84 interchange is horribly fucked. It would kinda work for football but baseball would grindlock the area during any weekday game.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Leave the MC and that area alone. A new stadium should be the anchor for development in underdeveloped areas of the city. Like someone else said the perfect location is in Industrial NW Portland. Multiple freeway accesses and easy to expand the existing streetcar line. Also that area will eventually go the way that the South Waterfront area has but the majority of the land is currently a superfund site. A stadium with Forest Park on one side and the Willamette on the other would be gorgeous and an anchor for future growth.

The area around the MC is already built and developed and the I-5/I-84 interchange is horribly fucked. It would kinda work for football but baseball would grindlock the area during any weekday game.

Idc where it is honesty just as long as it's by the water so my team name and gimmic works out

 

[barfo]

And as far as your white man crack my stepkids are native.

So what if my man crack is white? Not a lot of sunlight down here in mom's basement.

barfo

 

[BonesJones]

Leave the MC and that area alone. A new stadium should be the anchor for development in underdeveloped areas of the city. Like someone else said the perfect location is in Industrial NW Portland. Multiple freeway accesses and easy to expand the existing streetcar line. Also that area will eventually go the way that the South Waterfront area has but the majority of the land is currently a superfund site. A stadium with Forest Park on one side and the Willamette on the other would be gorgeous and an anchor for future growth.

The area around the MC is already built and developed and the I-5/I-84 interchange is horribly fucked. It would kinda work for football but baseball would grindlock the area during any weekday game.

What about western shore just south of the 405 bridge? Could develop more around there, especially to the north side of the bridge.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

MLB2PDX alive again?

 

[BigGameDamian]

MLB2PDX alive again?

Mike Barrett won't let us down!

 

[Natebishop3]

In a story published this week in Baseball America, well-connected Hall of Fame baseball writer Tracy Ringolsby outlined a 32-team expanded MLB with realignment that resulted in a 156-game schedule and four eight-team divisions, with Portland listed in the West division.

Ringolsby referred to Portland as a city with a “legitimate” ownership group, which is the group Barrett is associated with:

“And there is a legitimate ownership group in Portland that has the necessary financing along with support for a stadium, which would be partially funded by a $150 million grant. Approved by the state of Oregon to help finance a stadium when efforts were underway in 2003 to be the site for the relocation of the Expos (who instead moved to Washington, D.C.), the grant is still available.”

Interesting. I didn't know that grant existed.

 

[BBert]

Leave the MC and that area alone. A new stadium should be the anchor for development in underdeveloped areas of the city. Like someone else said the perfect location is in Industrial NW Portland. Multiple freeway accesses and easy to expand the existing streetcar line. Also that area will eventually go the way that the South Waterfront area has but the majority of the land is currently a superfund site. A stadium with Forest Park on one side and the Willamette on the other would be gorgeous and an anchor for future growth.

The area around the MC is already built and developed and the I-5/I-84 interchange is horribly fucked. It would kinda work for football but baseball would grindlock the area during any weekday game.

Vote SlyMayorDog 2018!!!

 

[Chris Craig]

Vote SlyMayorDog 2018!!!

I don't vote repuplican

 

[BBert]

I don't vote repuplican

hahaha

 

[Trackjack]

Didn't see this posted anywhere

I was listening to ripcity drive or whatever the radio show is called this morning on 620. They were reporting "breaking news" that an international group is trying to bring both baseball and football to Portland. Jay Allen (tired of this guy lol) was saying that he has heard they already have a couple of sites in mind of where they want to build TWO separate stadiums.

This would be awesome. I mean we have talked about it on this forum for years, and irl decades so theres no reason to get any hopes up.

Portland would be an awesome NFL city. Would you guys abandon your favorite team to root for the local one?

No

 

[BigGameDamian]

No

No what?

 

[kjironman1]

Leave the MC and that area alone. A new stadium should be the anchor for development in underdeveloped areas of the city. Like someone else said the perfect location is in Industrial NW Portland. Multiple freeway accesses and easy to expand the existing streetcar line. Also that area will eventually go the way that the South Waterfront area has but the majority of the land is currently a superfund site. A stadium with Forest Park on one side and the Willamette on the other would be gorgeous and an anchor for future growth.

The area around the MC is already built and developed and the I-5/I-84 interchange is horribly fucked. It would kinda work for football but baseball would grindlock the area during any weekday game.

The NW industrial Area has way too much going on. It is in fact a huge money maker for the city and has not only rail but Waterway traffic. Changing that would be way too costly.
IMO it would be far better and easier to locate around PIR/Meadows/Delta Park. Then of course the bridge which is going to be built anyway will have to be built and they already have light rail out there Yellow Line. Also it makes all the Vancouver to Longview to Camas to Hood River to the Dalles people available to support the team.
The flip side to that is that Beaverton and Hillsboro would have to drive a little further to get there. Just don't put the stadium out in Hillsboro whatever they decide to do.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

 

[stampedehero]

NHL would Definitely work in Portland!

 

[The Professional Fan]

Well at least we know who our play by play guy would be.....

 

[BonesJones]

MLB2PDX alive again?

Mike Barrett >>> Kevin Calabro.

Calabro would be trying to bring our team to Seattle.

 

[BonesJones]

Well at least we know who our play by play guy would be.....

Barrett would be a good Play-By-Play guy for baseball.

I just want a team to root for that's not the Seattle Mariners. That franchise is cursed. Baseball games during the summer at a stadium built on the river (kinda like the Giants Stadium) would be sooo nice!

 

[BonesJones]

I just want a stadium on the river. Just south of the I-405 bridge would be nice. Build a glass, see-through half-roof that covers the field and is only open on the side that is the river. Would have a riverwalk kind of like this:

Imagine that on the Willamette, with poles going up to the end of the roof which is open on that side. It would be beautiful.

 

[The Professional Fan]

Barrett would be a good Play-By-Play guy for baseball.

I just want a team to root for that's not the Seattle Mariners. That franchise is cursed. Baseball games during the summer at a stadium built on the river (kinda like the Giants Stadium) would be sooo nice!

I think he would be good too.