Braves ditching The Ted for suburbs

Welcome to another episode of "Liberals hate when their follies are pointed out."

 

They can put a retractable roof on centre court at Wimbledon, which was built in 1922, but not the Ballpark, which was built in 1996.

Fuck outta here with your nonsense and lies.

 

In addition, although there obviously was no Olympics, Municipal Stadium in Cleveland had been built in the bid for the '32 Games, which they lost out to Los Angeles. Which is why, for many years, we all saw crowds of 6,000 in an 80,000-seat stadium.

 

Regarding the Rangers, they never should have built this park with out a roof, retractable or otherwise. It's just too goddamn hot in the summer there. And there's no possible way to enclose the current park to make it climate-controlled so any comparisons to Wimbledon are asinine.

 

Poster-boy poseur conservative.

 

I'm not saying they couldn't put one on the current park. In fact, to me, it would make a good deal of sense to explore that. Could it be done for a lot less money than just building a new stadium? Probably, but I don't know for sure.

 

Walls on all four sides and built like a fortress. You're right. What an impossibility.

 

I'm no engineer, but looking at that photo, it's pretty obvious that trying to fit a retractable roof onto that facility, which would then be sealed-in enough to be climate-controlled to where it would be comfortable would be nearly impossible. In fact, I think it would probably make the heat worse. I went to a couple of games there not long after it opened, and the way it's built allows for a fair amount of breeze to come through, not near enough to completely mitigate the heat, but it helps.

 

Was a roof even considered in Arlington when they built the current yard? Even in this era of global warming, there hasn't been that much change in summer temps in the Metroplex over the last 20+ years, has there.

As for Phoenix, its more craziness. The Coyotes' arena was built mostly because the Suns' arena was not good for hockey. Is Glendale then stuck with a white elephant?

 

A) I'm not a liberal, and B) save your political slobber for defending a candidate who combines the flaws -- philandering husband, flip-flopper, megalomaniac -- of three of the last four Democratic nominees.

 

Speaking of the Rangers new stadium swindle ... err, deal ...

“It is one of the worst public projects anyone could imagine,” said Robert Baade, an economist at Lake Forest College in Illinois.


News 8 analysis: Arlington could give away millions in stadium deal

 

It was only retrofitted around the outfield. The home plate portion of the stadium was built specifically for the Braves, who leveraged the Olympic bid to get a new ballpark out of it. International media cast all manner of aspersions on ACOG for that stadium design because it wasn't the classic track and field oval. They're welcome to their opinions, but the Atlanta Olympic planners were thinking of the stadium's life after the Olympics. Among Atlanta Olympic venues, it has had the most post-Olympic success. The Ted was also built with private money. Didn't cost the Braves a dime to built it. Contrast that with the current situation in Cobb County, and it's mind-boggling.