OT MLB to PDX: We're talking baseball to PDX

Tough to say. It’s not my money.
I personally liked the T-1, T-2 site.

 

All I hear is excuses. Yeah I'm going to need you to come in to work Saturday n Sunday. Mind>matter.

 

Can they sell hats on the weekends? Is that the plan?

 

So, a bunch of drunks eating hotdogs and getting motion sickness watching a baseball game? Sounds lit.

 

Find a local brewery that will add Dramamine to their beer.

 

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You're right. This is exactly the kind of out of the box thinking that we need.

 

Dude they’ll figure it out. It’s not impossible. We see shit around the world that are modern marvels. I’m sure it’ll be expensive like you said but if they’re motivated as they say they are they’ll get it figured out

 

I agree on that. But people bitched about lack of transportation etc

 

And you can rotate it so the wind is always blowing out when we're up to bat, and blowing in for the opponents.

 

Lawmakers and Incoming State Treasurer May Help Bring Major League Baseball to Portland
At a stakeholder gathering, the concrete idea that emerges is to increase the bonding authority available to help fund a team.
By Nigel Jaquiss
November 22, 2024 at 8:06 pm PST
The long-running effort to bring Major League Baseball to Portland took a small step forward this week.

The Portland Diamond Project, the group that’s been working on securing a stadium site and a team for more than seven years, gathered numerous elected officials Nov. 21 at the downtown office of the Portland Metro Chamber, including Mayor Ted Wheeler, Mayor-elect Keith Wilson, many city councilors and legislators, State Treasurer Tobias Read, and Treasurer-elect Elizabeth Steiner. (Many business leaders also attended, and Gov. Tina Kotek sent a representative from her office.)

The Portland Diamond Project presented detailed renderings of what a stadium at Zidell Yards in South Waterfront would look like and introduced baseball executives and insiders from around the country who spoke in support of the project.

Major League Baseball has speculated for years about expanding from 30 to 32 teams, and Portland as well as Salt Lake City are regularly listed as the two leading candidates for franchises west of the Rocky Mountains.
Although the Portland Diamond Project still hasn’t identified the source of the billions of dollars it would take to buy a franchise and build a stadium, the assembled group did make progress on another source of funding this week: the possible use of income-tax bonds to help finance the operation.

Back in 2003, when Portland, then led by Mayor Vera Katz, was chasing the Montreal Expos, lawmakers passed a law creating $150 million in bonding authority to help acquire the franchise. The state would use income taxes from players’ and team employees’ salaries to pay off the bonds. The concept is sometimes called “but for” financing because the tax revenue used to retire the bonds would not exist but for the presence of a team. The law generated controversy at the time, with critics saying there were more pressing uses for tax dollars than baseball.

It became a moot point when the Expos relocated to Washington, D.C., and became the Nationals.
But that bonding authority never went away, and talk at the Portland Metro Chamber’s office quickly came around to whether it could be used today. (Adjusted for inflation, $150 million in 2003 would be $256 million in 2024 dollars.)

State Sen. Lew Frederick (D-Portland) says the plan he saw at the chamber offices was the most detailed and impressive of the many he’s viewed since he first covered an earlier effort to bring MLB to Portland as a TV reporter 40 years ago.

Frederick says the issue of going to the Legislature to increase the bonding capacity was a big topic of conversation. “How would people respond? The present state treasurer and the incoming treasurer were there—she [Steiner] will have a lot of say,” Frederick says. “If there’s a bill, the argument will be the same as it was in the past. Could we be leveraging the tax money for something else other than baseball?”

Watchdog groups and advocates for a variety of progressive causes are l

 

Well I’m down here building the new Albina Library in the old neighborhood. Not much optimism about baseball yet but let’s hope they get it done.

 

“The Portland Diamond Project presented detailed renderings of what a stadium at Zidell Yards in South Waterfront would look like and introduced baseball executives and insiders from around the country who spoke in support of the project.”

There’s your detailed renderings you been waiting for

 

Voters would never approve another bond to acquire a team. That's justly opinion however.

 

According to the article I don't believe that voters would have to approve this particular bond. Maybe I'm reading it wrong.

 

It’s funny all these politicians coming together for this now. If Portland hadn’t fallen off a cliff since 2020 they would never care for this. But I’m not complaining

 

Players and GM's and an increase for inflation. Thanks

 

No they didn’t. Those were copies of old possibilities that don’t fit.