Downtown park site is 'sole focus,' Marlins say You have got to be kidding? Was anyone else downtown when there was a Heat Game, A concert at the Carnival and ULTRA at Bicentennial Park? I can just picture a baseball game too! Ahh..the traffic and parking...Yes, let's put the stadium downtown. Marlin's President said:''having a downtown site makes sense,'' because of transportation issues and because it would be easy for fans to walk to the ballpark."
Ha, Ha, that's a joke right? Most of your fans are in Broward fella. They ain't walking to downtown Miami.
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Baseball is an urban sport... it needs to be downtown. Think Wrigley Field and the like.
The orange bowl is just as close to the heart of downtown as Yankee Stadium is in the Bronx. And think Shea stadium: It is not near any downtown.
Yankee Stadium also has 3 subway lines serving it and Shea has a subway and commuter railroad station. The Orange Bowl is (currently) nowhere near Metrorail or Tri-Rail. A downtown Miami stadium would be within reach of the Government Center and Overtown stations, which would at least make Metrorail and Tri-Rail an option for anyone who doesn't want to deal with parking downtown.
New York is basically a 300+ square mile 'downtown' anyway (compared to other sprawled out American cities), so they could place a sporting venue practically anywhere (save for Staten Island) and it would work.
I see no reason why the taxpayers of Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami should give up their land and their tax dollars to multi-millionaire employees and owners of a privately owned baseball team. For multi-millionaire employees and owners who primarily live no where near Miami? Who is taking bribes?
Shea is not walkable...it is in the middle of Queens and for its first years of operation, there was no mass transit except buses.
Every day the headlines in the newspapers discuss the crisis affecting Floridians over high real estate taxes and high insurance premiums. Why are our politicians so eager to give our tax dollars and our taxpayer owned land to out-of-town owners and multi-millinaire Broward based baseball players? Why can't our taxpaying residents get tax relief first?
Because our taxpaying residents need baseball in their lives. It is literally impossible to get up in the morning and think about anything other than "who's on deck", or, "who's had enough rest to pitch in relief", or, "aren't those skyboxes sexy!" And who can fall asleep at night, without wondering how the Marlins did on their away trip to Pheonix, or, how many curve balls were hit into double plays, or, will uniforms fit tightly this year, like basketball shorts in the 1970s, or will they fit loosely, like they did in the 1950s? Baseball is life and that is why Miami can't live unless there is a baseball stadium downtown. And if the traffic turns out to be an obstacle, let's just bulldoze everthing around the new stadium until traffic flows freely. We need baseball. It is good for morale in a time of war.
S Florida is not interested in Baseball.
The historically pathetic crowds of World Champion teams are an excellent indicator.
If you build it,
they won't come
I hope residents will be concerned with education and crime and employment. Florida needs a better educational system. Miami has too much crime and Miami has a problem with the perception of too much crime. Miami has a huge problem with unemployment and even worse it has a problem with underemployment. I hope the residents of Miami are more concerned with the above issues and maybe if solutions are found to those issues and if real estate taxes go down 75% that then maybe someone spends time to find a new site for baseball.
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