OT Baseball and Football Coming to Portland?

I'd be open to this.

 

The Grand Ronde Tribe (I believe) offered to build an MLB quality ball park in the Portland area during the Kulongoski regime. All they wanted in return was a casino in the PDX metro area. Kulongoski (the slimy little prick) unequivocally turned it down because (at least in part) gambling "sends the wrong message" (though the vested interests who owned Ted were the real reason). How the citizens of Oregon approved this type of decision making in this kind of issue to a single politician is beyond me. But Ted The Midget screwed local MLB fans for the foreseeable future. Lord can we pick 'em....................

 

Disagree with this. A combination of sponsorship + tax would be the solution. Nike would be a big factor IMO.

 

Baseball and football is much harder than basketball to fund.
Nike isn't enough and drop off after them it's significant.
Have you seen the news on the Stadiums in current construction? I have a bit of inside knowledge talking to the gc's. I supply a lot of the bent steel for the framework ofcof couplecgoing up. Plus it's pretty regularly discussed on the radio.
The taxpayers are getting killed because of the interest factors. The contracts being agreed to are straight robbing he public after all is said and done.
We are too frugal around these parts in my opinion. Oregon has always held its purse tight and been hesitant to spend anything on growth and or entertainment.

 

Publicly financed stadiums are a scam unless they're fully owned by the city, which generally hasn't been the case in the past. If a private company is going to own the stadium, and collect the revenue from using it both for their own team as well as renting it for concerts and events, then they should have to pay for the land and construction of it.

Now, if the city is going to wholly own it, charge the team rent and get all the profits from using it for non-sports events, then it can be a benefit to the taxpayers and could be worth spending taxpayer dollars on. Owners generally don't like not having full control and ownership, though.

 

A riverboat casino would be cool as shit.

 

Screw the other tribes. I haven't heard of them trying to get on board since the proposal was rejected. If they really cared about making it work, we would have heard from them. And where folks choose to gamble is a casino problem, not a tax payer problem. If we get an MLB stadium in the PDX metro area, then the PDX metro area will benefit economically and that is supposed to be the first priority. The Grande Ronde tribe certainly didn't seem to share your concerns when they made the proposal. But then, the white man has always looked out for the best interests of the red man, right.....?

 

Eugene would pull it off....some state of the art sports facilities have been built around here and they've got a minor league team already...they also have the land and Phil Knight basically is everyone's landlord here anyway. Tracktown USA....hotels...parking...The Emeralds...U of O facilities...airport...it would work in Eugene

 

More money to be made in Portland than Eugene..

I don't think Eugene would even have a 0.01 chance of happening

 

We should be talking about the Medford metro area at this rate.

 

Not even close to happening. Eugene doesn't have the population to sustain the ticket sales for either one when competing with the Ducks expensive tickets and Portlanders aren't going to commute for weeknight baseball and Id be wiling to bet Sunday football. Right now a large percentage commute for Ducks games, but thatch because its on a Saturday and you have a day to recover

 

Ducks tickets for basketball are cheap dude..last time I went to Mathew Knight Arena I paid 18 bucks..they fill Autzen Stadium to capacity for the football team...from Corvalis to Bend to Florence there are a lot of retired folks who buy season tickets.....Eugene Symphony sells out all the time....either way....I want professional baseball in Oregon....

 

I was speaking of football tickets, which are expensive.
Baseball wont happen because Eugene would need ot rely on the Portland populus and we wont be driving down for weeknight games, or day games. Weekends only and that wouldn't cut it.

 

Now Salem might be feasable. Portland commuters could make the trip.

The Salem Suckers

Cause the only way it would happen is if we voted it in.

 

Salem Witches.

And before some history nerd comes along to scream, "Wrong Salem!" no, it isn't. Because the witch trials happened in Salem, Massachusetts, that means witches clearly flourished in Salem, Oregon. And so the team is named after them.

 

Baseball is doable, football isn't.

Tear down the MC, and build a beautiful baseball stadium. Name the team the Oregon Anglers, everytime the team scores we have a designated Fishing Boat shoot fireworks from the water.

 

I don't want to a ballbuster. But can somebody please site an online source of any recent date that this discussion is even relevant? I mean, an outside interest want a to bring Baseball and Football here.... The Four W's and an H please.