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MLB 2024-25 Hot Stove Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by 2muchcoffeeman, Oct 31, 2024 at 12:00 AM.

  1. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Disney.
     
  2. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    That's the beauty of all the stadium public-financing deals: the franchise pays nothing, and gets everything.

    I always love it when the stadium deals are greased through the local governments: "yeah hey, let's spend a billion dollars so the Cockopolis Boners don't fly off to Pocatello! Besides saving our Major League Franchise for our loyal fans (giving them the right to pay $100-200 or more for tickets), just think of all the great events and concerts we'll have at the new Bonerdome!! Think of all the money the city of Cockopolis will make on those events!"

    (Virtually all lease agreements with "major league" sports franchises give the franchises complete control of all revenues from outside events, like concerts.)
     
  3. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    Please, no images or photos of the Cockopolis Boners
     
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  4. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Cardinals Nation confirms it's letting Gibson and Lynn fly away. Someone else, too, but brain lock here.
    Wonder if Arenado is willing to hang with a last-place team.
     
  5. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    He's rumored to be on a bunch of trade lists (mostly from BLOGGERS!!!) even though he agreed to extend through 2027. If the Tigers fan on Bregman, he wouldn't be a terrible backup plan.
     
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  6. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Well, anyway, in terms of where the Rays will play in 2025 or any time afterward, I think Orlando is the logical pick for a number of reasons.

    Only if Disney was somehow convinced it would be disastrous for them would I see it really failing. There's already a ballpark there in reasonablly playable shape. Needless to say the Rays would have to carry the costs for most renovations/upgrades.

    Of course Disney ain't gonna hand over 100 acres of real estate surrounding the stadium for the Rays to build restaurants and bars and casinos and parking lots. Ultimately that could scotch the whole deal in the long term. But I would think some kind of cooperative deal could be hammered out.

    Looking at Google Maps of the area, there certainly appears to be enough adjacent land which could in theory be cleared to allow Disney to build another cloverleaf or two of baseball diamonds to play youth tournaments, assuming the big stadium and probably four other fields would be set apart for Rays use.

    If the whole deal goes pfft in five years, Disney's kids sports facilities have been expanded, and they still have a 35,000 seat facility available for possible MLB use for events such as the World Cup, and who knows, maybe in not too many years, the first neutral site World Series if games keep going later in November.
     
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  7. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Or their cheerleaders.
     
  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Buster Posey makes first front office hire.
     
  9. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    His brother is the Angels' GM; not a stellar record down there....
     
  10. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    A Farhan hire too, which is setting off alarms here.
     
  11. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Especially no Giant Asian Cockopolis Boners.
     
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  12. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    The Marketing Department is working on mascot and logo concepts.
     
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