[nyrmetros]

I found this very interesting. It seems that Pro Player Stadium in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale which is home of the NFL Dolphins and the MLB Marlins is dumping Baseball for Cricket and Soccer.

http://www.msgnetwork.com/content_ne...ins&league=mlb

"Pro Player Stadium president Bruce Schulze said 2010 is the last of a series of one-year lease options for the Marlins, who share the complex with the Miami Dolphins. He said dropping the Marlins would let the stadium pursue such events as cricket and soccer."

[thurd]

The Marlins won't be there by 2010 anyways. They have been in negotiations for a while about getting a new stadium built in Miami. The negotiations have reached a dead lock of sorts, so they team has apprently been looking into relocation. In the past few days at the baseball winter GM meetings, the team has met with officials from the city of Las Vegas. If this Schulze guy is doing this as a bargaining ploy, then he is completely lost.

[SYoshonis]

Plus, there's no way that the thing is big enough for cricket. He sounds clueless to me.

[swedcrip34]

Shulze wouldn't be the one bargaining. It's the Marlins ownership that most benefits from this news cause it'll help them get a deal done. They want their own park. The only missing piece has been a 5-10% state contribution (sounds like it might actually happen next year) and the issue of cost overruns.

This points out that Hunt was wrong is saying Oakland is the only NFL team sharing a stadium with MLB (he paused cause he knew he was wrong)

[skyscraper]

Originally Posted by swedcrip34

This points out that Hunt was wrong is saying Oakland is the only NFL team sharing a stadium with MLB (he paused cause he knew he was wrong)

And this may be resolved soon as well; the A's are looking to relocate. Oh how I wish they would return to their ancestral homeland of Philadelphia! We could support 2 baseball teams easily. But if the Phillies want to leave as a result, I wouldn't cry about that either. When the A's were here, they won 9 pennants and 5 World Series championships between 1901 and 1931 (then nothing until they moved to Oakland, with a pointless 13-year stint in KC in between). The Phillies, who have been in Philadelphia since 1883: 5 pennants, 1 World Series championship.

[Khansingh]

Yes, it never made sense to me that the former Worcester Ruby Legs weren't the club to leave town. The A's at least won, drew better, had more tradition despite being eighteen years younger, and they played in the best ballpark in the history of the game. If they were to return to Philadelphia, they'd have to resume the old colors of blue and white, maybe with platinum thrown in to commemorate one hundred years in the American League. Good stuff.

Maybe Pro Player could host some Aussie Rules exhibitions, since they're talking cricket. Maybe they should change that name since Pro Player hasn't been around for about six years now. Now Bruins jerseys are made in Canada. Canada!

[MiamiAce]

I wish they would tear down Pro Player Stadium and build a state-of-the-art stadium for football/soccer IN Miami. Not where the Pro Player is right now in the middle of the ghetto (Carol City), in the middle of nowhere, on our northern county border just to satisfy the idiots from Broward and West Palm Beach counties who are too weak to ever get their own teams and stamp their OWN city names.

Bring the Dolphins back to Miami, move the Marlins to Las Vegas, and bring MLS to Miami for the first time (not Fort Lauderdale in Broward county and then stamp our city name on the team). What f'ckin joke that was.

[nyrmetros]

I've been to Joe Robbie Stadium twice. Once for a Marlins - Mets game, the other for a Dlophins - Jets game.

The stadium looks very nice, didn't notice anything decrepid about it. The sightlines were excellent, plus they had a tikki bar out in the concourse.

But once again the mass transit issue comes up..... the Tri-Rail station is pretty far away. Basically if you don't drive there you are screwed.

I think that the stadium could do pretty well with soccer. Didn't the US play there in '93 or so ?

[fusionmansteve]

Played Holland, lost 2-0 I think...done in by Clarence Seedorf...I was there. Wonderful soccer stadium, though obviously not for MLS at this point.

PPS would've been a WC94 host IF the Marlins weren't there. Sorry, Orlando, but that's the truth.

[nyrmetros]

Originally Posted by fusionmansteve

Played Holland, lost 2-0 I think...done in by Clarence Seedorf...I was there. Wonderful soccer stadium, though obviously not for MLS at this point.

PPS would've been a WC94 host IF the Marlins weren't there. Sorry, Orlando, but that's the truth.

Thanx. My cousin did indeed inform me that the US played Holland there in '93. She was there as well. She didn't remember how the crowd was, obviously the pre Sam's Army days.

And yer right about Joe Robbie Stadium hosting the Florida leg of the '94 World Cup had the Marlins not started play there. Cousin said the same thing.