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Old 05-25-2021, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Oregon, formerly Texas
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If PEOPLE would return to downtown, it would force the city to do something about the homeless problem. People take for granted how shut down everything is. What has happened is a massive adverse possession of basically abandoned public and/or business spaces.

I am for anything that makes the city alive again. A baseball park would facilitate that.
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Old 05-26-2021, 11:39 PM
 
Location: WA Desert, Seattle native
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Agreed, a new stadium in Portland would be great and perhaps attract an mlb team. That said, I don’t see it happening anytime soon. The issue is the stadium. Until there is a firm plan for a stadium the league will look elsewhere. There are other similar sized markets competing (yes, Vegas), but it all comes down to being stadium ready.

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Old 05-27-2021, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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I agree the stadium is the issue. Portland metro voters will not approve of paying for a baseball stadium. We have other important ways to spend tax money.
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Old 05-27-2021, 02:10 PM
 
Location: The State Of California
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Default Pipe Dream..........

Portland you know this game BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME!!!!

MLB Park.......
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Old 05-27-2021, 06:16 PM
 
Location: WA
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Portland you know this game BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME!!!!

MLB Park.......
That's what San Antonio thought when they built the Alamo Dome. So far their only full time tenants are UTSA, the once-a-year Alamo Bowl, and local HS football playoffs.
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Old 05-27-2021, 06:57 PM
 
Location: The State Of California
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That's what San Antonio thought when they built the Alamo Dome. So far their only full time tenants are UTSA, the once-a-year Alamo Bowl, and local HS football playoffs.
The S.A. Spurs left the Alamodome because it wasn't up to major league standards.San Antonio competed against Lost Wages Nut Badder and missed
bringing The Oakland Raiders to Texas............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alamodome

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Old 05-27-2021, 07:49 PM
 
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Portland you know this game BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME!!!!

MLB Park.......
No need to build a park yet, the backers and plans are very serious from what we’ve seen and that’s enough.
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Old 06-23-2021, 09:32 AM
 
Location: Henderson, NV
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Portland has been eliminated along with every other city per the Review Journal’s quotes from Oakland A’s officials - they’ll either be moving here to Las Vegas / Henderson or staying in Oakland. I always figured Portland was a long shot but would have been fine with that as well, it’d be good for the city. But I’m hopeful they don’t stay in Oakland and choose Vegas instead, we’d love them here and have strong sports support. Portland has done amazing supporting the Timbers and Blazers but there’s nowhere near enough money in that city. We have so many extremely wealthy groups here and individuals it does facilitate more options. There’s even a group of billionaire investors trying to bring an NBA team here (and Silver wants a team back in Seattle and in Vegas, we already have the WNBA and summer league here so it’s a good fit, plus T-Mobile can accommodate both the Golden Knights and an NBA team).
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Old 06-27-2021, 12:55 PM
 
Location: WA
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Portland has been eliminated along with every other city per the Review Journal’s quotes from Oakland A’s officials - they’ll either be moving here to Las Vegas / Henderson or staying in Oakland. I always figured Portland was a long shot but would have been fine with that as well, it’d be good for the city. But I’m hopeful they don’t stay in Oakland and choose Vegas instead, we’d love them here and have strong sports support. Portland has done amazing supporting the Timbers and Blazers but there’s nowhere near enough money in that city. We have so many extremely wealthy groups here and individuals it does facilitate more options. There’s even a group of billionaire investors trying to bring an NBA team here (and Silver wants a team back in Seattle and in Vegas, we already have the WNBA and summer league here so it’s a good fit, plus T-Mobile can accommodate both the Golden Knights and an NBA team).
The A's won't move to Vegas either. It is one thing to attract fall and winter sports to Vegas like the NFL and NHL. It's another thing entirely to attract outdoor summer sports like baseball. Allegiant Stadium which was built at a cost of $1.9 BILLION to attract the Raiders can't be aligned for baseball. So Vegas would have to build another $2 billion domed stadium to attract a MLB team. Because summer outdoor baseball in the sun is not happening in Vegas. And as deep as the pockets might be in Vegas, I don't think they are THAT deep. There are only so many surcharges you can put on rental cars and hotel rooms and people like their low taxes as well.

The NBA is possible because Vegas already built T-Mobile arena for the Golden Knights and it is ready for an NBA tenant with little or no modification. But if I had my guess, I would think that Seattle would be a more likely location for an NBA expansion team now that they are completely remodeling Key Arena for the NHL Kraken. It is a much bigger and wealthier media market than Vegas.

The average daily highs in Vegas exceed 100 degrees from June through August and average 107 in July. That's not friendly outdoor baseball weather.

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Old 06-27-2021, 07:44 PM
 
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The average daily highs in Vegas exceed 100 degrees from June through August and average 107 in July. That's not friendly outdoor baseball weather.
It is not, but their AAA team (Las Vegas Aviators) does draw quite well for playing baseball outside in that crazy heat during those summer nights!

If a MLB team does come to Las Vegas, and that's a big IF, they will have a retractable roof stadium for sure.
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