Why Does Portland Only Have The Blazers?

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Someone should call Bernie Ecclestone, I want to see Fernando Alonso on Sandy Blvd.
 
Mediocre Man said:
MLB would be awesome in Portland. They could easily construct a stadium where the river, downtown skyline and Mt Hood would all be visible. It would sell the city to the rest of the country. Baseball itself isn't exciting, but the atmosphere at a game is tremendous. There is nothing quite like sitting out in the sun, drinking beers and eating hotdogs......The good stadium ones.

It is a relaxing, inexpensive way to spend an evening or weekend day. It also happens to be going on at a time where there is nothing happening in Portland.

If Portland got the same design firm that Pittsburgh used for PNC Park, they could hit it huge....no pun intended.
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Don't get me started on how we fucked up our chance for MLB. The WANTED to give us the franchise, because of the hell Peter Angelos was going to raise when you took 36% of his market away. Vera was great, but I'd like to cold cock Tom Potter. What a fucking moron.
 
maxiep said:
Don't get me started on how we fucked up our chance for MLB. The WANTED to give us the franchise, because of the hell Peter Angelos was going to raise when you took 36% of his market away. Vera was great, but I'd like to cold cock Tom Potter. What a fucking moron.
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Careful using cock and Tom Potter in the same sentence, he might take you up on something you may not be into.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Careful using cock and Tom Potter in the same sentence, he might take you up on something you may not be into.
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lol "not that there's anything wrong with that"
 
Can we please have a moment of silence for what could have been.

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ODENISGOD said:
wow that is exactly what portland needs. get er done
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Sadly the chances of that getting done any time soon is nil. As was said before, you can thank Tom Potter for that. But hey, at least we get Cesar Chavez Ave. Good job, TP.

Does anyone remember that half assed letter he wrote to MLB trying to save face?
 
Mediocre Man said:
MLB would be awesome in Portland. They could easily construct a stadium where the river, downtown skyline and Mt Hood would all be visible. It would sell the city to the rest of the country. Baseball itself isn't exciting, but the atmosphere at a game is tremendous. There is nothing quite like sitting out in the sun, drinking beers and eating hotdogs......The good stadium ones.

It is a relaxing, inexpensive way to spend an evening or weekend day. It also happens to be going on at a time where there is nothing happening in Portland.

If Portland got the same design firm that Pittsburgh used for PNC Park, they could hit it huge....no pun intended.
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Couldn't agree more. Especially your remark about Pitt's design/view from stadium. It makes that city look really cool.

I have no doubt that Portland could support MLB.
 
ironcrotch said:
Can we please have a moment of silence for what could have been.

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The Stadium should point the other way, but damn - that is sick.

EDIT: Then again, maybe not. The view of Mt Hood is nice. Hmmmm....river, bridges and skyline vs Mt Hood. I guess, either way, you win.
 
RedHotRollin said:
Could it be due to the lack of corporations in the area?
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I've never bought into that argument.

True, Portland has just 2 fortune 500 companies based here: Nike and Precision Cast Parts. But some other metro areas have a similar number and still have more professional sports teams.

There are only 5 fortune 500 companies in all of Arizona, but they have 4 pro teams.
San Diego has only 3 fortune 500 companies, but 2 pro teams.
Kansas City has 3 fortune 500 companies and 2 pro teams.

I don't know...it may be a SMALL part of the problem, but how many fortune 500 companies do we REALLY need? Or fortune 1000? Or whatever? If Arizona is filling 4 stadia worth of luxury boxes with just 5 fortune 500 companies, evidently they're getting some other companies that aren't based there to buy a luxury box.

It's not as if Portland has NO big businesses. 6 fortune 1000 companies. Tons of big companies that would at LEAST split a luxury box.

I think that 'lack of corporations' line is created by the Blazers to keep other teams from cutting into the absolute BEST situation for any professional sports team. We have 2.2 million people in the metro area with no pro sports competition. I can see why they'd want to keep it just like that.
 
The author simply does not understand that Oregonians have better things to do than to waste 3+ hours every day of their lives sitting in front of the tube watching other people get rich playing games.

With camping, canoeing, swimming, fishing, bird-hunting, deer-hunting, elk-hunting, clamdigging, bicycling, backpacking, spelunking, barbecuing, hot-tubbing, guitar-playing, photography, and listening to live music, I barely have time to follow 1 team.

I'd love MLB in Oregon, but I'd have to (and would) drop the Blazers to have time for it.
 
Get the MLB here now!!
 
MARIS61 said:
Soccer is not a real, major, sport.
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Since it has more fans in this world than American Football, Baseball or basketball - I find this argument... baffling...

Soccer is not a major sport in the US. That's about as far as it goes.
 
andalusian said:
Since it has more fans in this world than American Football, Baseball or basketball - I find this argument... baffling...
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Ping-Pong has far more fans in this world than soccer, and so does Islam, but I wouldn't call either a real sport.

andalusian said:
Soccer is not a major sport in the US. That's about as far as it goes.
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As far as sports go, the US is all that really matters to me, and to most Americans.

Don't care if they play Pongo in the Congo, or if soccer fans kill each other weekly in Brazil and Europe.

It's still one of if not the most tediously boring game to sit through as a spectator.
 
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MARIS61 said:
Soccer is not a real, major, sport.
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I can see where you could make the argument that soccer is not a major sport, since people are so US centric the fail to realize that 0 people outside of the US and areas with US army bases cares about American Football or that 0 people outside of the US, Latin America, Korea and Japan care about baseball. BUT, can you explain to me how soccer is not a real sport? What in baseball makes it a sport, but soccer not?
 
MARIS61 said:
It's still one of if not the most tediously boring game to sit through as a spectator.
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I think you mixed up baseball with soccer. If you record a baseball game, you can watch every play in under 10 minutes. < 10 minutes of action stretched out over 3+ hours. If that's not tedious, I'm not sure what is.

And this is coming from someone who likes baseball and played it through HS.
 
MARIS61 said:
The author simply does not understand that Oregonians have better things to do than to waste 3+ hours every day of their lives sitting in front of the tube watching other people get rich playing games.

With camping, canoeing, swimming, fishing, bird-hunting, deer-hunting, elk-hunting, clamdigging, bicycling, backpacking, spelunking, barbecuing, hot-tubbing, guitar-playing, photography, and listening to live music, I barely have time to follow 1 team.

I'd love MLB in Oregon, but I'd have to (and would) drop the Blazers to have time for it.
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Because YOU do those things, then EVERYONE does those things?

Ego-trip much?
 
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