OT Baseball and Football Coming to Portland?

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    I've read many times that Portland has fewer rain days during the baseball season than just about every major league city. Summers here are perfect for baseball.

    Now, the World Series games in October might be a slightly different matter, IDK.

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    no we don't.
     
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    You're not dreaming big enough. This one has the view facing toward Mt. Hood:
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    It would be a shame to play baseball indoors in Oregon during our brief and glorious summer. Seriously, no one would come. And I don't think the number of rain days would justify the cost of a retractable roof.
     
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    IIRC, Portland is warmer and drier than SEA, so not quite apples-to-apples, but I don't know that a roof is required:

    While Seattle is notoriously known for “always raining”, the roof has actually been open in 78% of games played (985 of 1262). It has been closed (or moved during a game) roughly 22% of the time. The record for most games played in the open air is 71 (out of 81 home games) in 2006 and 2012.

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    So you like rain outs?
     
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    I didn't mean literally float on the water, I just meant build it above the existing road so it becomes like an underpass.
     
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    That is not really a good graph to make your point. 22% of the games would have to be made up at the end of the season or crunched in to other non travel days off. Double headers maybe? Even if your assumption that it is drier here and it goes down to say 18%? It's way too much. Portland would be absolutely stupid to build a stadium without a roof system. I mean come on??? We are talking about April, May and the Beginning of June. How many years have you lived here? Now how many times have you waited until 4th of July before it stopped raining?
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    It doesn't rain in Oregon in the summer. Places like St Louis and Atlanta have hellatious rain storms during the summer. We don't.
     
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    Just because the roof is closed doesn't necessarily equate to a rain out....
     
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    That's what it looks like it does.
     
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    Snow??? What? Too Hot?
     
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    This is the thinking why it will never happen
     
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    That is just crazy talk now.
     
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    Portland would have had fewer rainouts than many other cities that don't currently have a roof or retractable roof.
     
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    Probability of rain on average for Portland
    April 1st ( about opening day) 47%,
    May 1st it will have dropped to 33%
    June 1st 29%
    July 1st 14%
    August 1st 4%
    September 1st 12%
    October 1st 25%
    November 1st 48%

    The thing to keep in mind is a lot of our rain at those times is scattered showers. So it's more likely a rain delay here or there.
     
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    I've lived here all my life and this holds true:
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    Oh dang. You're right. Thanks! I never seen these. I WANT BASEBALL HERE!
     
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    May be ideal, but I remember years ago....when we were going through this BS, that if we had the same home schedule as the Mariners, we would be rained out like 8 games.

    Comfort, however, is a whole different discussion
     
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    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    Just put the stadium down here in Oregon's city of sunshine. We don't get any rain down here!
     
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