Mar 08 2007 11:31 AM
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Spring Training - Florida versus Arizona.
| metirish Mar 08 2007 07:56 AM |
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Klapisch today had some valid points regarding travel to games in Florida ,for the game against the Red Sox yesterday it was a 3 hour bus ride to Fort Myers,bus left at 7:15am and the team didn't get back until 7 that night,spending 6 hours on a bus doesn't seem to make a lot of sense but with more teams moving to Arizona it will only make things worse in the future. The Dodgers are closest to the Mets ,only 33 miles away but they are moving in 09,so are the Indians who train in Winter Haven according to Klapisch. What happens if a few more teams move,teams that are not that far from St.Lucie,would the Mets ever think about moving to Arizona as well where most teams are no more than a hour away and some as close as 15 minutes. [url=http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyNjgmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwODk2NzcmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2]Long Bus Ride[/url]
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| Benjamin Grimm Mar 08 2007 08:30 AM |
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I doubt it. If anything, maybe the Florida teams will scrunch closer together over time. I wouldn't mind them moving to Arizona though. I never make spring training trips anyway, but if I were to do so, I'd much rather go to Arizona than Florida. Also, if I ever retire to a warm climate, Arizona is a much more likely destination for me than Florida is.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 08 2007 08:43 AM |
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The teams in Arizona are (mostly) located closely together because the population of the state is much more centrally located. I don't see how Florida duplicates that. The number of teams training out west is starting to close in on half but, of course, that makes sense since the league as a whole has shifted west over the years. The Dodgers are/were the last remaining holdout of a western team still training in the east. But all of the east coast teams (and some of the mid-west clubs) still train in Florida and, since they all have to maintain stadiums there for the Fla St League and the Gulf Coast Lg minor league teams, it's not like they're going to abandon that state just for shorter bus rides.
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| Johnny Dickshot Mar 08 2007 08:48 AM |
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B sides, I do B leive the Mets recentlky agreed to a long-term sentence in St. Lucie, connected with the parlk renovations and name change and the stupid commercials advertising Tradition as the kind of town Met fans should live in. Retch. So they ain;t going nowhere. And I'd B surprised if there's not as new tenant in Vero at some point.
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| G-Fafif Mar 08 2007 11:02 AM |
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Damn, those commercials, not unlike Billy Crystal, suck. They show three vintage Mets pictures, one of which is clearly from Shea and another from inside a clubhouse which could be anywhere while they're supposed to be illustrating the Mets' Florida heritage. And all the modern-day Mets action is from like five years ago (Piazza singling by Kent of the Giants). I visited and liked Al Lang/St. Petersburg a great deal toward the end of its day in the Met sun. Never been to PSL. Anybody got anything good/bad to say about it from experience? It always looks like the Mets are playing in a lonely shadow.
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| Edgy DC Mar 08 2007 11:28 AM |
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I have seen the future of Spring Training in Florida. Teams will be travelling to visit their opponnents for two-three days at a time, dorming and training adjacent to them, and urinating in public with them at night.
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| seawolf17 Mar 08 2007 11:31 AM |
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| metirish Mar 08 2007 11:33 AM |
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Not a bad idea really,except the urinating in public of course...FK made a good point about the minor leage teams,never thought of that(nor did klapisch),if the Mets did ever move I would think they would have a lot of fans in Arizona.
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