Look I love baseball as much as the next guy and would like to see it succeed. However, I can’t imagine that fans of rival teams of the A’s and Rays circle the dates when their team plays there as a must visit.
Pretend that you similar to my nephews who are Yankee fans. Do you really look forward to the Yankees going down to Tampa and watch them play in front of 9,000 a night unless there’s a promotion or retirement of a special player’s number. Same with Seattle Mariners fans or Anaheim Angels fans. Who looks forward to going to that “ballpark” out in Oakland? I don’t, the Oakland Raiders don’t, which is why they’re moving to Las Vegas by 2020. Even the NBA powerhouse Warriors are leaving Oracle arena soon for the Chase Center in San Francisco in a year or two.
So, Josh, where do you propose the A’s and Rays move to? Well, the A’s should move to Vancouver, BC and play in BC Place, home of the Vancouver Whitecaps and BC Lions. The capacity is 50000 for baseball. I think that the A’s could draw very well there, certainly more than what they’re doing now in Oakland. As for Tampa, let’s right a historical wrong and move the team to Montreal. For the time being, they would play in either Olympic Stadium, which I doubt MLB would approve of, or in Saputo Stadium, where the Montreal Impact of the MLS plays. Montreal and Vancouver are much better tourist destinations than Tampa-St. Petersburg and Oakland are.
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