OT: Baseball coming to Portland in the near future (AGAIN?)

Old people are cheap, set in their ways, and don't buy shit. Young people and especially kids want to buy everything they see on TV.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...hich-could-mean-raiders-will-have-a-new-town/

A’s claim they have a new lease, which could mean Raiders will have a new town

The travesty apparently will continue.

That’s the word Raiders owner Mark Davis has applied to the lingering reality that his team plays many of its games with a giant dirt baseball infield superimposed on what otherwise would be green grass made extra lush by the top-quality fertilizer flowing freely at times from the stadium bathrooms. The infield is there because the A’s share the venue, and the A’s announced Wednesday a 10-year agreement to keep playing there.

As explained by Matt O’Brien of the San Jose Mercury News, city and county officials found the announcement from A’s owner Lew Wolff and Commissioner Bud Selig surprising, since from the politicians’ perspective an agreement on a new lease has not yet been reached.

Davis may used a word other than “surprising” to characterize his thoughts on the matter.

While Davis typically says all the right things about sharing a stadium with the A’s (except for the “travesty” remark), a lease that would keep the A’s at the current stadium location for a decade complicates the football team’s search for a new home. Davis wants a stadium without a baseball infield, which means a stadium without a baseball team. With the A’s intending to stay at the O.co Coliseum for another 10 years and hoping for a new building at the same location, that’s one less place where the Raiders can develop a long-term home.

These events are happening at a time when the Raiders have the ability, if at least 23 other owners will let them, to pack up and move to a new city. The Raiders have a one-year lease, and Davis has repeatedly expressed frustration about the lack of progress toward a solution. If, as it appears, the A’s are securing the deal they want at a time the Raiders can’t (even though Oakland had hoped to do a deal with the Raiders first), don’t be shocked if Davis finally commences the launch sequence for a relocation to L.A. or Portland or anywhere that would embrace the Silver and Black with a state-of-the-art stadium consisting of 120-by-53 yards of continuous green.

 

Yeah, forget about baseball if we got an NFL team. I'd go from a Niners fan to a fan of the silver and black in a half a second if they moved up here.

 

No kidding. As long as LA is without a team, they will be everyone's first choice. Especially for the Raiders who have history there.

 

Go ahead, take the Raiders. Leave the A's.
Oklnd. It wouldn't be the same without the A's.

 

I wouldn't mind the Raiders here. I wouldn't have to go to Cali to see the Jets every year.

 

We should have had the Raiders back when they were talking about building a stadium in Delta Park. The stupid ass voters turned it down.

 

Yeah. That was a while ago. The Delta Dome wasn't it. My mom told me about it. More of a Tacoma Dome design wasn't it. The kind to bring in big bands and redneck tractor pulls. Great idea. Would of been nice to see ACDC or Iron Maiden growing up in Portland during the eighties .....

 

It was going to be the first dome ever built. We had the Raiders all lined up. That's the problem with Portland... no foresight.

 

Dude. You'll never get Oregon ins to build anything for sports or even charity. Just look at the so-called fine arts programs like the Symphony Orchestra. They have to put on bake sales to make ends meet. This is not a sports friendly town and it never will be.

 

It's sports friendly, but only if we don't have to pay to build shit. It will ultimately cost us the Blazers at some point down the line because I doubt we would vote to build a new arena.

 

You're right. And this town will deserve it.

 

I would be outraged if we traded basketball for baseball.

 

There wouldn't be a trade. I don't think any new stadiums/arenas will be built for the foreseeable future.

I'm curious, how long do you guys think the Rose Garden will be acceptable before the Blazers want to build something new? 20 years?

 

20-25 years It's amazing when I went down there how dated it looked. And the Rose Garden was considered top of the line when it started. But I guess there is meant to be a difference when you compare it to The Forum or The MSG.

 

Ugh... I remember that.... It would have created jobs and we'd actually have a FOOTBALL TEAM. Fuck Baseball. Fuck Hockey. I want FOOTBALL.