Well. I guess our Dawgs will not be playing in the St. Pete Bowl this year.
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Would have been wild if the Rays were in the playoffs. Guessing they might have moved their home games down to Miami?
I read that last night. Seems kind of dumb to do that. Wasn't it always close to the projected path?
CNN frames it as a black eye for DeSantis.
Man, I hate both political parties right now.
Man, I hate both political parties right now.
You should hate the media instead.
I also just read the article and it doesn't come off that way to me. I mean doesn't praise Desantis but doesn't down him either.
The Trop was built in 1990, so before the Florida Building Code had the major wind loads update post-Andrew.
I don't see how it frames it as a blackeye for anyone. It simply says that it was intended to be a base for first responders until the roof blew off. It references DeSantis making statements to that effect. The article reported the facts and referenced DeSantis stating those same facts. Am I missing something?
Was the article different this morning? I see it was updated after you posted.
Nothing stands out in it, at least not to me.
Below is the part that mentions DeSantis.
Which is really bizarre, because they didn’t even have a team until 1998.
And also bizarre because it’s in 17ing South Florida, and didn’t even need to be a dome in the first place.
Rains too often in the summer in south Florida for an outdoor stadium. Also there are more lightning strikes in Florida every year than any other state.
They’ve become servants of and to each other; a four headed wild beast where truth and logic gets devoured.
Didn’t seem to stop the Marlins from playing outside for years. Or the Braves from playing in 2 different open air stadiums that were both built since the Trop was constructed, when Atlanta gets a similar annual rainfall amount as St. Pete. Or the Buccaneers for that matter.
But ultimately, it seems crazy that the city assumed the cost and infrastructure of a domed stadium in 1990 when there wasn’t even a team there. You only had Seattle, Montreal, Toronto, Houston, and Minnesota with domed / closed roof stadiums in those days. It was pretty cost prohibitive to do back then, even if you had a team producing revenue that could leverage the municipality or investors to pay for it.
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Marlins had a ton of rain delays when they played outdoors. The Buccaneers play 8 games at home.
Best thing that could have happened to the Trop happened last night. That place was nothing more than the world's largest and stinkiest gym locker room. Hopefully they'll go ahead and demolish it now.
Plus it’s hot as 17 too… all the outdoor stadiums in Florida should look at what the dolphins did with the canopy at hard rock stadium. That keep most of the seats in the shade.
See the Braves example.
8 or 9, depending on the year. That’s not really relevant to how likely it is to rain. Lots of NFL teams in areas less rainy than Tampa have domes. LA gets like 19” of rain per year, and has an indoor stadium. If the rain is a problem, I think it would be a problem across the board.
Overall I don’t think its any sort of a big deal, just highlighting the inconsistency of building an all outdoor stadium in one sport for a team you actually have in your metro area, vs. splurging on an elaborate domed stadium in another sport for a nonexistent franchise.
Just for giggle I threw in Miami. Florida locations are going to have much more rainy days in the middle of summer when there’s baseball. Rarely do you see Dolphins or Jags or Bucs games with rain because fall is the dry season in Florida.
