OT Baseball and Football Coming to Portland?

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    Fuck it. Might as well make it retractable. This is cool as shit!
     
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    Like I've said, I love SafeCo and its roof, and that you never have to worry about rain (it still can get Cold Adonal Foyal, though). But SEA had enough taxes put on the sports district to make it recoverable money for a quarter-billion-dollar add-on. I don't know that PDX can, but I don't think they HAVE TO.
     
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    Tomorrow Portland will get about an inch of rain. You really want to compare that with Denver or Cleveland or Chicago?
    Tomorrow Boston 72 and Sunny
    Tomorrow New York 71 and Sunny

    Thanks for playing.
     
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    It is cool. That is really all my point has been. If you are going to build it. Build it right.
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    A roof is something they should build eventually, IF they build it, but not right away.
     
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    How about we take a look at how many teams have a roof at all...

    Marlins, Brewers, Astros, Blue Jays, Mariners, Rays... Tampa Bay the only with a fixed roof. So basically you can freeze your ass off in any Northern city in October. Here's the precipitation map for this week, keeping in mind only 6 teams have a roof.
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    well, in that case, because tomorrow those cities are going to be dry, Portland should totally invest in a roof.

    Because if it doesn't rain tomorrow in NY (or Denver, Chicago, Cleveland or Boston) it will never rain there anymore.
     
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    Most the big acts just hit the Gorge anyway.
     
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    Nice find from a week ago. Yes anywhere can get wet and cold. My point is and always has been why? Why in Portland Oregon would we even consider it? Go look at the report again for tomorrow and all the weather in the corner up there in the northwest is there again.
     
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    Good point.
     
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    I get it, you won't vote unless there's a roof b/c you think it's an absolute necessity and have anecdotes about weather in PDX and that you'll get more events during the offseason. I just disagree with the "necessity" piece b/c a) October baseball isn't a given, and people will come anyway if it does happen, b) I can't think of another roofed baseball stadium that does anything in the offseason except take up space until spring, and c) other places have, well, October weather also.
     
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    Because 24 of 30 teams who also can get hit with weather at any time this time of year, some even get snow... And they make it work just fine. You talk like someone who lives in New Mexico and hear that it rains in Portland.

    BTW why does the week matter?
     
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    You realize that is not the point at all but i guess you have already pointed out you would build a stadium completely mobilize construction and then try to RE Mobilize back to build a roof at a later date.
    Look i am an Ironworker by trade. I have been a construction general Foreman and Superintendent for years. I have built stadiums. My first one was Bank One Ball park in Phoenix Arizona. You do not go back and fix it later. You build it the way it needs to be built the first time.
     
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    because adding a roof doesn't actually make a huge difference? And it's not like the stadium is going to be like Autzen with no covered seating.
     
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    ^those aren't even counting SF and DEN over the last decade or so. SF is probably the closest I could think of to what PDX baseball should be...downtown-ish stadium, scenic lines, cool climate...
     
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    This I agree with. Retrofitting sucks.
     
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    The week didn't matter. I thought it was a good look at the point you were making. It was recent and during the playoffs and the entire country was wet.
    No i was born and raised in Portland.
     
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    I agree 100%. And that is exactly why it will never happen.
     
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    Worse than SUCKS. I tried fixing Montreal's roof. We simply welded it shut.
     
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    The thing is, it's not actually necessary. I'm saying IF they foolishly do it, they should do it later. It's not worth the cost now.
     
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