So, I see this picture and think, what has something happened in Tampa? But, no. You guys are killing me[emoji2955] Anyhow, the Trop, home to the Rays is ready to be replaced. St. Pete is looking at a $1 billion redevelopment project to rebuild that area. The Rays have been looking for a stadium site, maybe Ybor, maybe where Al Lang Stadium (current home of the Rowdies) is located. The Rowdies are owned by the guys that own the Rays. Somethings got to give. MLS2Tampa!
That would be #MLS2StPete though.. I've given up on that since it's clear all that matters now is that you have $300 million for an expansion fee (Charlotte), and Sternberg ain't paying that.
60-90 days. Jorge Mas says Inter Miami will definitely be in Fort Lauderdale for two years but it could be three years. But he adds it will be no more than three years as he is confident that Miami Freedom Park will be given the green light in 60-90 days.— Bob Williams (@WilliamsBob75) February 26, 2020
Oh, Oh! A 60-90 days sighting! Man, it's been a while since we've seen one of those. Feels like home.
St. Louis excited to see MLS stadium grow https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/st-louis-excited-to-see-mls-stadium-grow/
That's just were we are as a country, 22 year old stadiums have to be replaced. By the taxpayers. It's weird.
That dome is actually older than that. It opened in 1990. They built it to lure a team to move before finally getting an expansion team 8 years later (with a three year stint of hosting a hockey team until their arena was built). It's definitely not the greatest place to see a game. Though I question the wisdom of an open air stadium in Florida like they keep talking about, particularly in a thunderstorm prone part of Florida at that..
Well, when the league first started all the teams were in Canada, so "National" meant Ontario and Quebec. When you're in Antwerpen and you're driving "cross-country," you're going down to the Ardennes or Luxembourg, not to Cali or the east coast. And you can do it in a few hours...
Not really I guess, but central Florida tends to be the most prolific. There's a lot of articles about it but none that cite figures beyond most days of thunderstorms or lightning strikes for a given year, so it could be confirmation bias.
The Climatological Lightning Threat from 2 pm to 8 pm is shown based on lightning probability and strike density. The images to the left of the lightning threat show climatological lightning probability (top row) and climatological strike density per flow regime day (bottom row) in 6 hour intervals. The images from left to right are valid: 8am to 2pm, 2pm to 8pm, 8pm to 2am, and 2am to 8am. https://www.weather.gov/mlb/imu_lightning_threat
Tampa is supposedly the lightning capital of the world. At least that was the explanation given by Phil Esposito when the hockey team was christened the Lightning.
Tampa is the capital of the US but some lake in Venezuela is the capital of the world. Some 28 strikes every min.
I went to a Rays game back in 2003. Weeknight game, pretty empty. I went wandering around the stadium and the upper deck was covered in trash. Not sure when the last time they had even bothered to clean up there was, but it didn't seem like a priority at all given the size of the crowds they were drawing.
I would like to see a breakdown for before 6pm and after 6pm. Florida has something like 50 inches of rain a year, and I think it’s about 100 rain events. But those events only last about 30 minutes each (at least that’s what I recall from the graduate hydrology course I took back around 1988 at UCF). From what I remember back when I lived in Tampa, most summer days, it was “its 3 pm, time for the thunderstorm.” The weather pattern was quite predictable. https://www.weathernationtv.com/news/florida-sea-breeze-usually-leads-thunderstorms/ I wouldn’t be worried about 7:30 pm games being rained out.
Both of UW’s major event venues on campus in Seattle have had their naming rights bought by Alaska Airlines. But they both had long-term names everyone knew them as. So they’re officially Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium and Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion. And they’re right next door to each other. Outside of the official opening to the broadcasts not even the Huskies’ in-house radio broadcasts call them anything but Husky Stadium and HecEd, much less anyone in the fan base.
We had a slight stadium update from one of our owners in Columbus. He said the stadium is ahead of schedule & foresees only 4-5 games at Mapfre in 2021.
Nashville. Save Our Fairgrounds to file injunction to halt construction/demolition on stadium site while lawsuits proceed. Hearing on March 13th https://fox17.com/news/local/save-our-fairgrounds-to-file-injunction-to-stop-mls-stadium-deal