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  1. ripcityboy

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    If I saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers getting high. I'd probably play some better music.
     
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  7. Fez Hammersticks

    Fez Hammersticks スーパーバッド Zero Cool

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    Possibly big news, per the Twitters:

    Tampa Bay's stadium deal fell apart today.
     
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    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    I'm a Yankees fan. My allegiances are tied to a team that wins 90-100 games and then loses to Boston.
     
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    Yeah, gotta recoup half of a percent of the money they've spent in order to satisfy the investors that obviously don't know as much as you do in terms of their prospects of landing the team...

    Lmao.
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Not sure if that's good or bad news.

    Good news: They could relocate here.
    Bad news: Expansion is off the table until they get it sorted out.
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    But in terms of AL divisions, Tampa Bay relocating here would actually make a lot of sense geographically.

    AL West:
    Seattle
    Portland
    Oakland
    LA Angels
    Texas/Houston

    AL Central:
    Kansas City
    CHI White Sox
    Minnesota
    Detroit
    Houston/Texas

    AL East:
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    Boston
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    Baltimore
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    It'd be smarter georgraphically for them to swap Arizona (newest NL team) for Texas with this structure though.
     
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    "Rays announce stadium project in Ybor City is dead, likely locking the team into Tropicana Field through 2027"

    The door is open to pounce.
     
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    See, you get it
     
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    I could see this working but you'd need the right person to oversee the move of the baseball operations and scout for new farm system agreements on the West Coast. The best man for the job would be Andrew Friedman. He's president of baseball operations for the Dodgers but he started his career with the Tampa Bay Rays and got them to the World Series. You could offer him the ability to save his old club and also mold the entire personnel department from the ground up. That's not something he could even do with the Dodgers. Where everything is done by a different rule book. Honestly, you want to this deal to work, getting Friedman would be the right way to do it. He knows that organization and he's run the best West Coast minor league system around.
     
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    The Portland Rays

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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Why can't he see this post?
     
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    From what I understand, Tampa can leave that stadium deal before 2027 as long as they pay the remaining debt owed on the stadium. I am not sure how much debt that is but this late into the deal I can't imagine its a crazy amount.
     
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