The Biz of Baseball‘s Maury Brown will be on The Ticket KNBR-1050 with Damon Bruce on Thursday at 1:30 PM. Don’t miss it, even though I will. Earlier in the week, Maury tried to make sense of the T-rights situation, covering all of the angles.
Consider this the open thread for whatever is discussed. I’ll try to participate once I hear the podcast version.
Quick aside: As I got into Dallas today, one of the big topics of conversation was a question posed to Rangers’ frontman Nolan Ryan about having a retractable roof on Rangers Ballpark. I tweeted Maury about this, he said he heard little, neither had I until today. Now it appears that the issue has legs, turning into a debate about what’s a more sensible investment: Cliff Lee or a roof? Or is it no Lee without a roof? I was there. In person I saw the seemingly indefatigable Lee run out of gas in the 7th, thanks to the nearly 50,000-person communal sauna enjoyed in Arlington tonight. Both teams’ closers are presumed to be unavailable for tomorrow, both bullpens are taxed. It’s what we’ve come to expect out of Texas in August.
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Damon Bruce: “San Jose is a one horse town”.
Maury nicely pointed out how the t-rights are/should be irrelevant based on the conditions underwhich they were granted. Las Vegas is not viable. There have been many aborted attempts in Oakland. Etc.
Damon Bruce is technically correct in that, with just the Sharks out of the top-4 sports leagues, San Jose is currently a “one horse town.” Bring down the A’s and we’re up to 2 horses! 2.5 if you count the Niners in Santa Clara. Do the Raiders and Warriors know the way? Looks like San Jose has the potential of becoming the SPORTS CORRAL of the Bay Area Damon!
By the way, hats off to Maury for calling the T-Rights for what they are; IRRELEVANT!
First off, thanks to all for listening in today….
On the roof… It was brought up and given some legs by Evan Grant’s column, but Ryan said it was blown out of proportion. They looked into it investigatively, but the cost was astronomical and it only covered roughly 40% of the facility.
in other words, it was a non-starter, and why it gained no traction 2 years ago (as Marine Layer mentioned, I had never heard of any discussions around a roof up until today).
Baseball in Texas is baseball in Texas. Minute Maid is nice, but I have to say… I hope they leave the Ballpark alone, sans something such as a frieze. It’s a nice looking ballpark and a roof would screw with the aesthetics.
What if Tom Yawkey bought the Philadelphia A’s instead of the Red Sox (Part 1)?
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/what-if-tom-yawkey-had-bought-the-as-part-1/