What would you like in a new stadium?, v. 7.0

That would probably double the cost in most cases.

 

Yeah! Shit! You're right. FO will have to hand out raincoats.
RoTFLMAO!!!

 

Maybe Lew is toying with us; like the father that doesn't want to tell his kid that he's getting him a Daisy Red Ryder Pump-action Western Carbine Air Rifle for Christmas.

 

Yes it would. We'd start getting into MLB park price ranges if we put a roof on a SSS that retracted.

As for RBA, I'm not sure I like their roof after seeing how claustrophobic it seems even no while still open to the elements. I know it'll enhance sound and is "traditional" but I'm back to feeling it's unneeded. Particularly after sitting out on a beautiful California afternoon last weekend enjoying the game under the open sky. Maybe a Rio Tinto style roof really is enough if we do get a roof.

 

True. If it were always that pleasantly mild. However, I've been at Spartan for 1 o'clock games in the middle of July and August wishing I'd brought a huge sunshade.

 

True, but by the same token there will be games in March and April if we had a roof like RBA where we'd all be shitting in the shade with a stiff breeze blowing (remember it will be near the airport which was built there because of the wind benefits), freezing our asses off while the players are out in the sunshine.

 

Tell Goodsport we'll have to be equipped with those space heaters like they use at the Brit and other outside restaurant facilities.

 

Our new stadium is going to be a cheap-ass piece of shit.

What do I want in a new stadium? Owners who deeply value and respect our sport and the San Jose Earthquakes.

 

Won't the roof on Red Bull Part create strange annoying shadows all over the field on sunny days?

 

The two most important things are
1) the Earthquakes never move
2) MLS moves the Houston Dynamore for failing to get a stadium built

 

I'm picturing a dumpy version of the butt ugly columbus stadium. Let's face it, whether it's players or future stadiums, our front office is cheap and there's no getting around that.

 

How is our front office cheap? You do realize the stadium they're building will at minimum cost them 100 million dollars right (because yes you do have to factor in the cost of the land it sits on since we're not being given a handout by the city like most teams)? Columbus only paid 28 for theirs. And as for spending money on players, we're near the salary cap limit if I'm not mistaken. They couldn't spend much more if they wanted to in this league or have you forgotten about the salary cap.

Look I'm all for complaining where complaints are due, but to say a group that's our owners are cheap is just WAY off base. You want cheap owners go look to New England or any of these other douchebags that have built their stadiums completely or partially with public money.

 

If you have to ask you haven't been paying attention.

 

Have you been paying attention to global finance?

 

How many of those expensive stadia got built without any direct public incentive or funding. basically all of them received generous tax incentives or direct funding from public coffers by the local governments because those local governments realized how much of a boon to the local economy the stadia provide. And don't act like the land deal for the Airport West site counts at all. Lew and crew is paying a fair market price for the land.

I bet that the amount of private funding (minus any tax incentives) that went into any of the SSS's in the league would not be exceptionally more than what the FO is committing to our project.

 

Fixed ur post. Think u had it backward...

 

yeah, I think I meant to say "would not be exceptionally more." It could be more, but nothing near the full cost of the stadia

 

FIFA requires (PDF) that fans be kept 6 meters away from the touchline, and 7.5 meters away from the endline, of any newly constructed stadium.

The Philly stadium is being built to conform to this minimum distance, and any San Jose stadium will have the same dimensions. So you'll be just as "far from the action" as we will be.