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BBert said:
It's fun being used for leverage every time a team wants a stadium or is negotiating with another city.

My optimism was crushed when we didn't get the Portland Expos.
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Ya I'm not getting my hopes up just to be let down.
 
How many honestly care about baseball?
It's boring to play, and worse to watch.
 
BBert said:
It's fun being used for leverage every time a team wants a stadium or is negotiating with another city.

My optimism was crushed when we didn't get the Portland Expos.
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Yeah, I agree, but once again MLB won't expand until the A's and Rays situations are resolved so leverage away in my opinion.
 
The Diamond project doesn't want a team with ownership to move here though, right? They want to own a team, at least that was my understanding.
 
Natebishop3 said:
The Diamond project doesn't want a team with ownership to move here though, right? They want to own a team, at least that was my understanding.
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I think they’ll be happy to also invest in the stadium and surrounding development
 
If you are a fan of a team, going to a MLB game, eating/drinking, sitting in the sun, the sounds, all of it, is as good as it gets. Grew up going to A's games with Rickey, Canseco, Dave Stewart, Eckersley, etc., in the Oakland Coliseum. Jump on BART with my friends in HS, go to a game, come back home with a sunburn and memories. Best days ever. If PDX can get that, its a gamechanger for this area.
 
calvin natt said:
If you are a fan of a team, going to a MLB game, eating/drinking, sitting in the sun, the sounds, all of it, is as good as it gets. Grew up going to A's games with Rickey, Canseco, Dave Stewart, Eckersley, etc., in the Oakland Coliseum. Jump on BART with my friends in HS, go to a game, come back home with a sunburn and memories. Best days ever. If PDX can get that, its a gamechanger for this area.
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I was living in Concord when they were building Bart.
 
calvin natt said:
If you are a fan of a team, going to a MLB game, eating/drinking, sitting in the sun, the sounds, all of it, is as good as it gets. Grew up going to A's games with Rickey, Canseco, Dave Stewart, Eckersley, etc., in the Oakland Coliseum. Jump on BART with my friends in HS, go to a game, come back home with a sunburn and memories. Best days ever. If PDX can get that, its a gamechanger for this area.
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Grew up in Chicago going to baseball games all summer ad well.
Seems to me, all my friends not from portland grew up with baseball and want a team. And the few that grew up here couldn't care less.
 
I just want something different. I don't care if it's baseball, hockey, whatever. I'm tired of the NBA and it's corporate bullshit.
 
Natebishop3 said:
The Diamond project doesn't want a team with ownership to move here though, right? They want to own a team, at least that was my understanding.
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Do people even read the articles or statements by the PDP? They have stated from the start and multiple times they are prepared for both options: stadium only or stadium and ownership...
 
BBert said:
It's fun being used for leverage every time a team wants a stadium or is negotiating with another city.

My optimism was crushed when we didn't get the Portland Expos.
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Yep, that's all it is. Same thing happened when the Penguins were going to move to Portland, and the Coyotes, and the Expos.

As much as I feel it would work here, it'll never happen.
 
barfo said:
If it had been built it would now be obsolete and the team would be talking about moving to Vegas.

Well, actually, it would have been obsolete by 1990 and so the team would have left 20 years ago.

barfo
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Or they could have left there and used it as a flea market or housing for homeless.
 
calvin natt said:
If you are a fan of a team, going to a MLB game, eating/drinking, sitting in the sun, the sounds, all of it, is as good as it gets. Grew up going to A's games with Rickey, Canseco, Dave Stewart, Eckersley, etc., in the Oakland Coliseum. Jump on BART with my friends in HS, go to a game, come back home with a sunburn and memories. Best days ever. If PDX can get that, its a gamechanger for this area.
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Ha I was there too.
Rickey Henderson: " It ain't Billy Ball, it's Rickey Ball"

I would go to Giants games too......as long as it was a day game. Night games at Candlestick were pure hell. But like you said sitting in the sun with your friends and having a few beers are great memories. Some sports IMO are only fun in person......baseball, golf, and hockey being three of them. (Nascar as well, but it still bores me)

Basketball and football are fun in person, but they also fun at home watching it on your big screen.
 
hoopsjock said:
I grew up in Portland and have wanted a baseball team my whole life.
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I moved the A's to Portland and called them the Oregon Trees back in 1999 on Front Page Sports Baseball. I did the same thing in Out of the Park Baseball more recently and even created my own logo with paint shop, but I decided to go with Portland Trees because I like it better. I do imagine though, that if the A's moved that they would keep the name Athletics as it's such a historical franchise and has kept it throughout the years in Kansas City, Philadelphia, and now Oakland.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
Ha I was there too.
Rickey Henderson: " It ain't Billy Ball, it's Rickey Ball"

I would go to Giants games too......as long as it was a day game. Night games at Candlestick were pure hell. But like you said sitting in the sun with your friends and having a few beers are great memories. Some sports IMO are only fun in person......baseball, golf, and hockey being three of them. (Nascar as well, but it still bores me)

Basketball and football are fun in person, but they also fun at home watching it on your big screen.
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Candlestick night games (and some day games) were so bad....they were almost good. Unbelievable wind and so fricking cold. What an awful stadium.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Not really because it has been mostly fluff and lip service.
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