(02-13-2018 11:49 PM)thespiritof1976 Wrote:  

(02-13-2018 07:43 PM)SC-KNIGHT Wrote:  

(02-13-2018 12:33 PM)thespiritof1976 Wrote:  

(02-13-2018 03:55 AM)SC-KNIGHT Wrote:  

(02-12-2018 04:42 PM)Doglando Wrote:  Trop goes down as the last rays moving van leaves the parking lot. rays are on the hook for the demolition fee too

Why would you say that. The stadium wasn't even built for the Rays. It was built to entice the Chicago White Sox to move south when they were negotiating for a new park in Chicago.

Shoot, they even printed t-shirts.

I think the Trop owners also made a play for the San Francisco Giants too but I haven't found anything yet. See if you can find shirts for them too.

Believe it or not I used to have one of these up until a few years ago - kept it around as a curiosity but finally got rid of it.

One correction to the above however - the stadium wasn't actually built to entice the White Sox or any specific team (construction started well before the White Sox opportunity came along). Kinda funny the current argument to use little to no taxpayer dollars on the new stadium over in Tampa when it wasn't all that long ago they built a stadium with no team - things sure have changed (thanks Marlins for milking every dollar out of taxpayers).