OT Baseball and Football Coming to Portland?

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  1. Strenuus

    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    You're right, my bad. I felt I worded it wrong.
     
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    City of Portland owns two large tracts of land down there and there is the NW Nat Gas area by the St John's bridge.

    Again, the new stadium needs to be a catalyst for future development.
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    When the vote in the state Senate happened they sent reps to try to get it to fail
     
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    No, it's been a thing like 10 times
     
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    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Same.
     
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    It's been a thing without a group

    This one seems to actually have a group. I'm not fully convinced, but if they actually name name a group, that's a huge step.
     
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    It'll be called the Portland Finallyyouhipstersgotbaseball
     
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    I think it should be an AL team.. Portland/Seattle rivalry, Makes geographical sense as well. I would hope it'd be an AL team.
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Yet Washington got a team and it's closer to Baltimore than we are to Seattle?
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I didn't say they were WHY portland didn't get a team, I said they sabotaged it
     
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    Really the conversation is about adding teams and completely redesigning the league with all west teams being together and east and so on. The idea is because of the amount of games played and travel schedule.
     
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    How about the Pussycats?

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    So really they attempted to sabotage it in '05. I mean, we definitely know that they don't want a team here, but frankly I don't see them losing that much business. It's not like Portland is crazy about Mariners baseball. If anything, I think actually having a team might stimulate a rivalry and get more people to make the drive north or south to see the teams play against each other.
     
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    Seattle is a huge city. I’m sure they’ll survive if a couple Portland fans jump ship for a Portland team..

    I doubt their worried that much
     
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    I totally agree it needs to be a catalyst for new development but i just don't think they will kill the industrial area to do it. That area needs to continue to grow because of the population growth. Where would they move the industrial area? Also isn't the Natural Gas area closed to construction for 20-25 more years? I thought EPA has their rules to follow? How do you get a truck into a terminal on a Wednesday afternoon when they are putting 40-60 thousand people in the seats and trying to park during a day game in September right in the middle of the pennant race?
    I see a bunch more area for new growth out where we have a race track that nobody uses anymore except for Christmas lights and car shows. Then you already have Expo and Meadows parking. New Strip malls, Restaurants, Delta Park becomes tournament city with Hotels. Hayden Island wins big also not to mention the help for Vancouver.
     
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    Fuck Vancouver. Are they going to put up any tax dollars for infrastructure improvements that are required for a stadium? Nope. So fuck them.

    The SoWhat District was a super fund site. They came in a took away all the soil.
     
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    If we can a MLB team, can we work some type of 2-way contract with Patty C?
     
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    At least in baseball there are actual benches to leave. Not like basketball with these fake benches that CJ is getting punished for leaving.
     
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