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dviss1 said:
I was born in 76" .

It's largely a term used in the black community.

It means anything from you're "talking out your ass" to you're "ready to fight".
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Also used in my community :)

:cheers:
 
I'm 100% that the team should be called either the "Oregon" or the "Columbia" (or maybe the "Columbia River") {insert local symbol here}.

Using Oregon connects with the entire state; Using Columbia has the advantage of creating a connection to the entire Columbia basin including southern Washington.

No more "Portland" names for me. Not an ideal economic strategy, IMO.

:cheers:
 
Mediocre Man said:
I bought some shoes from a drug dealer once.

I have no idea what he laced em with, but I was trippin all day
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Excuse me a minute.

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Possibly big news, per the Twitters:

Tampa Bay's stadium deal fell apart today.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Good idea. Recoup some of the money they've spent since there is no guarantee Portland will even get a team.
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Yeah, gotta recoup half of a percent of the money they've spent in order to satisfy the investors that obviously don't know as much as you do in terms of their prospects of landing the team...

Lmao.
 
Fez Von Savage said:
Possibly big news, per the Twitters:

Tampa Bay's stadium deal fell apart today.
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Not sure if that's good or bad news.

Good news: They could relocate here.
Bad news: Expansion is off the table until they get it sorted out.
 
But in terms of AL divisions, Tampa Bay relocating here would actually make a lot of sense geographically.

AL West:
Seattle
Portland
Oakland
LA Angels
Texas/Houston

AL Central:
Kansas City
CHI White Sox
Minnesota
Detroit
Houston/Texas

AL East:
NY Yankees
Boston
Toronto
Baltimore
Cleveland
 
BonesJones said:
But in terms of AL divisions, Tampa Bay relocating here would actually make a lot of sense geographically.

AL West:
Seattle
Portland
Oakland
LA Angels
Texas/Houston

AL Central:
Kansas City
CHI White Sox
Minnesota
Detroit
Houston/Texas

AL East:
NY Yankees
Boston
Toronto
Baltimore
Cleveland
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It'd be smarter georgraphically for them to swap Arizona (newest NL team) for Texas with this structure though.
 
"Rays announce stadium project in Ybor City is dead, likely locking the team into Tropicana Field through 2027"

The door is open to pounce.
 
BonesJones said:
Yeah, gotta recoup half of a percent of the money they've spent in order to satisfy the investors that obviously don't know as much as you do in terms of their prospects of landing the team...

Lmao.
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See, you get it
 
BigGameDamian said:
https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/o...d-plot-for-tampa-bay-rays.html?outputType=amp

Canzano: Portland Diamond Project should plot for Tampa Bay Rays
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I could see this working but you'd need the right person to oversee the move of the baseball operations and scout for new farm system agreements on the West Coast. The best man for the job would be Andrew Friedman. He's president of baseball operations for the Dodgers but he started his career with the Tampa Bay Rays and got them to the World Series. You could offer him the ability to save his old club and also mold the entire personnel department from the ground up. That's not something he could even do with the Dodgers. Where everything is done by a different rule book. Honestly, you want to this deal to work, getting Friedman would be the right way to do it. He knows that organization and he's run the best West Coast minor league system around.
 
BonesJones said:
Not sure if that's good or bad news.

Good news: They could relocate here.
Bad news: Expansion is off the table until they get it sorted out.
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From what I understand, Tampa can leave that stadium deal before 2027 as long as they pay the remaining debt owed on the stadium. I am not sure how much debt that is but this late into the deal I can't imagine its a crazy amount.
 
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