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Go Phillies! I don’t like rooting for teams that try to buy championships.
 
AldoTrapani said:
@SlyPokerDog

Hey Sly didn’t you bet someone here the stadium won’t break ground or something like that. Looks like it’s well on its way

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Except they keep releasing weird renderings. No official plans yet, no finances in place.

Also, the only way a white roof would work is if you play with a pink baseball.

 
SlyPokerDog said:
Except they keep releasing weird renderings. No official plans yet, no finances in place.

Also, the only way a white roof would work is if you play with a pink baseball.

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Eventually we're going to go away from the over the top gawdy stadiums and arenas, right?

I mean for a while we had the cookie cutter stadiums, and now we're in the waaaay too glitzy shit.
 
If you take away the roof aspect of it, you really can't tell the difference between that and Oakland Coliseum.
 
BigGameDamian said:
Hopefully Rob Manferd drops some news about MLB expansion sometime during the World Series.
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They will just say the same word salad causing a temporary blip in traffic to PDPs page. And then nothing.
 
2025 NBA Finals Game 7: 16.9m viewers
2025 MLB WS Game 7: 26m viewers
 
LA + Toronto population = 11 million
OKC + Indy population = 1.5 million
Nobody gives a shit about small markets.
 
Look at that 10 million more viewers. Didn’t even see that.
 
GoZers said:
2025 NBA Finals Game 7: 16.9m viewers
2025 MLB WS Game 7: 26m viewers
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Shhhhhhhhhhh ... the sport is on it's #DeathBed ... just listen to HCP, kids aren't playing stick ball in the streets of his hood so it's dying!
 
bigbailes said:
Shhhhhhhhhhh ... the sport is on it's #DeathBed ... just listen to HCP, kids aren't playing stick ball in the streets of his hood so it's dying!
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Do you think WHO was playing had an affect/effect on viewership?
 
kjironman1 said:
Bottom line is that was probably the best month of baseball I’ve seen and might be the most exciting world series there has ever been.
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I watched the last few innings of those 2 great games. First I’d watched in decades. Fun watch. Now if they could just make the OTHER 190 games that fun.
 
bigbailes said:
Shhhhhhhhhhh ... the sport is on it's #DeathBed ... just listen to HCP, kids aren't playing stick ball in the streets of his hood so it's dying!
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Nah, the team’s regional local broadcast numbers are proving that.
 
THE HCP said:
LA + Toronto population = 11 million
OKC + Indy population = 1.5 million
Nobody gives a shit about small markets.
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2024 NBA Finals deciding game (Boston vs Dallas) 11M viewers
2023 NBA Finals deciding game (Denver vs Miami) 13M viewers
2022 NBA Finals deciding game (Golden State vs Boston) 14M viewers
The last NBA finals deciding game to have more than this years World Series was in 2016.
 
GoZers said:
2024 NBA Finals deciding game (Boston vs Dallas) 11M viewers
2023 NBA Finals deciding game (Denver vs Miami) 13M viewers
2022 NBA Finals deciding game (Golden State vs Boston) 14M viewers
The last NBA finals deciding game to have more than this years World Series was in 2016.
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Were you able to watch any of those games?
 
THE HCP said:
Do you think WHO was playing had an affect/effect on viewership?
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Do I think the teams that play have an affect on viewership ... yes without a doubt but that doesn't change the fact that the NBA has seen a slight decline over the past few years and MLB is on the uptick. Add to MLB in park attendance going up slightly for the 3rd year in a row and things are looking positive. Again they need to figure out the RSN's where some are thriving and others have cratered but that's for the NBA as well. There is a reason most of these teams are going to free over the air channels, it's not an MLB specific issue. But again I'm not sure why I argue with you, someone could put your hand in a bucket of water and you'd say your hand wasn't wet. Give it up, MLB has passed up the NBA as the #2 pro sport in the country (still light years behind the NFL and CFB) but the rules changes and the excitement around the game is fun to see, even if you can't seem to figure it out.
 
THE HCP said:
I watched the last few innings of those 2 great games. First I’d watched in decades. Fun watch. Now if they could just make the OTHER 190 games that fun.
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I can promise you the Mariners games next year will start out pretty lit. How the season goes will depict how fun those games are to watch.
 
tlongII said:

@SlyPokerDog is definitely losing this bet!
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We shall see. The "funding" of this is sketchy as hell.

A’s spending on $2B Vegas stadium passes $300m mark, is Fisher’s folly really happening?​

February 24, 2026

Athletics owner John Fisher says he has now spent $300 million on a new Las Vegas stadium, and construction on the upper deck is set to begin soon on the $2 billion project. Next up, he can tap both a $300 million private construction loan from Goldman Sachs and $380 million in public bonds, which will get him to around $1 billion, with about another billion to go.

Is this a sign that Fisher is prepared to spend whatever it takes of his own family fortune — probably around $3 billion, mostly in Gap stock, I tried to find an updated figure but couldn’t get past this awesome AI-generated article that describes him as “one of the prominent figures behind the San Francisco Giants” — to get a stadium built in Vegas? Or that he’s still hoping to build enough momentum to lure in new investors — so far he’s pre-sold concessions rights and a minority share of the team to Aramark for $175 million and reportedly has another $70 million coming from a Korean investment fund, plus there’s whatever he can scrape together from “limited” seat license fees — in hopes of not having to raid his family’s savings?

Either remains possible, and either would betray a certain stupidity on Fisher’s part. There’s almost no way the A’s owner can hope to earn back $1.6 billion in personal outlay (more like $1.4 billion after additional tax breaks, but still) just from the proceeds of running an MLB team in the league’s smallest market; it’s possible he’s hoping the Vegas move will increase the value of the team, but even if you start with the team’s pre-move estimated value of $1.2 billion, the A’s would have to become worth as much as the Los Angeles Angels for Fisher just to break even, and that ain’t happening. On the other hand, if he’s hoping to fob the cost off on investors, that would come at the expense of diluting his share of the team and dedicating future stadium revenue streams to repay his new partners, which again will almost certainly leave Fisher in the red.

That said, it’s a billionaire’s prerogative to spend their money on really stupid shit, so just because it’s a dumb idea doesn’t mean Fisher isn’t prepared to do it. It’s unlikely his fellow MLB owners are going to step in — they just voted Fisher onto their executive committee, so they’re not preparing to push him out — and if his family members are planning to pull the plug once his spending hits a certain point, they’ve been really good at remaining mum. While I have zero inside information, at this point I’m tentatively ready to shift my bet from “John Fisher will never move the A’s to Las Vegas” to “John Fisher will eventually move the A’s the Las Vegas and it’ll be a beautiful train wreck,” though I’d still prefer if you gave me favorable odds.

www.fieldofschemes.com

A’s spending on $2B Vegas stadium passes $300m mark, is Fisher’s folly really happening?

Athletics owner John Fisher says he has now spent $300 million on a new Las Vegas stadium, and construction on the upper deck is set to begin soon on the $2 billion project. Next up, he can tap both a $300 million private construction loan from Goldman Sachs and $380 million in public bonds...
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