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by Frayed Knot » Thu Mar 13, 2025 5:46 pm
The irony to this whole thing is that the reason MLB expanded to TB/StP in the first place was that they had a ready-made stadium, one that had been built in anticipation of luring either SFG or CHW away from their home cities. Problem was that it was a really bad ready-made stadium, both in terms of construction and location, and that has been at the center of that team's problems for their entire history.
MLB seemed to feel sorry for the TB area, first for getting passed over by an existing team and then for being beaten to the first Florida ML team by Miami, so they made it up to them in the next expansion just a few years later. But undoing so they put a team into a stadium ill-designed for baseball which was located a lengthy bridge crossing away from the center of baseball fandom on the opposite side of the bay.
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