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

I can’t wait for opening day in PDX! I’ll def be there live

Until then go mariners! Thanks for blowing the team up after a decent 89 win season

 

Not if [insert name of person who wants you dead] has anything to say about it.

 

Moda Center is just under 20,000

I think the Portland Group wants the stadium to hold between 30,000 and 35,000. I don't want to speak for KJ but I think part of his opinion is that if that area is developed for a stadium several of the roads and highways leading to there will also get upgraded. It would have to be since right now there is no way that area could support that much traffic.

 

Thats a small stadium. Correct me if im wrong, but I thought most baseball stadiums were in the 35-50 thousand area? Safeco is like 44 isnt it?

I think the issue with the diamond project vs rfthe Moda is the Moda is central. People leaving and going norht, south, east and west.

Where the proposed site is for the diamond project, EVERYONE will be heading east ( or west to the St. Johns Bridge)

But no one can go north or south really because of the hills and the water. highway 30 and Lombard will be a complete mess every game as I see it.

 

They want a more intimate setting and almost every baseball stadium that is huge ends up being more of a problem. The thinking is to keep the tickets as a hot item and to always have demand for it. Also, just about every seat would be good in a 30,000 stadium.

 

I can wait because I still say there is no way it happens.

 

You missed my sarcasm in the beginning
Totally agree. I don’t see a problem with traffic unless they are in the post season and if they are who cares?

 

I miss alot of things dude!

 

Meet me in the hotel lobby and I'll hook it up.

 

The MLB was supposed to make some rule changes to make the game faster this season. Like fewer mound visits, having a pitch clock and having a shorter inning break.

 

Interstate 405 is also in that area and it's already a mess according to ODOT.

PDX traffic has been an increasing problem over the last 10 years and it's worsening each year.

You don't need to take my word for it. The data is all there at ODOT. I have a friend high up in ODOT and he showed me several of the public reports (on ODOT's site) for current status and future updates.

 

Well, looks like the Mariners will be undefeated!!

 

Will you guys make an MLB thread so this one doesn't get clogged up with day to day baseball talk. Sorry guys.

 

Some of you guys are way more in the know then me. So please don't take this as me bashing baseball or any of that. Is this PDXDiamond Project group legit? Everything I see from them is like a bad viral marketing campaign that seems to have no substance or just barely enough substance to try to sell some T-Shirts and hats. It just seems so weird to me, oh we have money, we won't tell you who though. Oh by the way, would you like to visit our store? I realize baseball isn't my thing, but in the midst of arguing if Bones and KS are the next Michael Jordan I was kind of looking around the internet at this group and in a way it almost comes off as scammy.

I realize this is probably overly critical, I am not a baseball guy, I wouldn't mind at all if we got a Baseball team.. Anyways how real do you think this is, do you think in a couple of years it'll go away with not much to show for it? Or in a half-decade or so we'll have a team?

 

They're legit. They've invested way too much time and money to be doing it for some viral marketing scam. There is no way they could sell enough t-shirts to cover that.

It doesn't mean they'll get a team in Portland. They can do everything in their power to make that happen and it still might not.

 

True. They can do everything right and still not get a team. Right now they are set if they get a team. They have the Land available and the funding to get it. They have an agreement on a PLA to build. They also have the fabrication issues as well as logistics covered. Just need a team and some luck.

 

So when do they start building? Will we get a team next season?

 

I heard for expansion 2025. For a team to relocate a couple years.