Well. I guess our Dawgs will not be playing in the St. Pete Bowl this year.

[Called3rdstrikedawg]

Roof blown off of Tropicana Field by Milton.

 

[57stratdawg]

Would have been wild if the Rays were in the playoffs. Guessing they might have moved their home games down to Miami?

 

[HotMop]

Would have been wild if the Rays were in the playoffs. Guessing they might have moved their home games down to Miami?

Stew would have moved them to Montreal.

 

[DawgInThe256]

Unfortunately they had set it up as a base camp to house first responders and linemen

 

[dawgman42]

Wow, Milton made some long-needed improvements. Too bad they are leaving for the new ballpark in 2028.**

 

[paindonthurt17]

Unfortunately they had set it up as a base camp to house first responders and linemen

I read that last night. Seems kind of dumb to do that. Wasn't it always close to the projected path?

 

[Xenomorph]

CNN frames it as a black eye for DeSantis.

Man, I hate both political parties right now.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/us/tropicana-field-roof-hurricane-milton-florida/index.html

 

[paindonthurt17]

CNN frames it as a black eye for DeSantis.

Man, I hate both political parties right now.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/us/tropicana-field-roof-hurricane-milton-florida/index.html

You should hate the media instead.

 

[paindonthurt17]

CNN frames it as a black eye for DeSantis.

Man, I hate both political parties right now.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/us/tropicana-field-roof-hurricane-milton-florida/index.html

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.

 

[LandArchDawg]

The Trop was built in 1990, so before the Florida Building Code had the major wind loads update post-Andrew.

 

[thatsbaseball]

I think it would be appropriate to wind up this season condemned building with the roof blown off. **

 

[GloryDawg]

Cloth. They will just play without it.

 

[Anon1717806835]

CNN frames it as a black eye for DeSantis.

Man, I hate both political parties right now.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/us/tropicana-field-roof-hurricane-milton-florida/index.html

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?

 

[mstateglfr]

CNN frames it as a black eye for DeSantis.

Man, I hate both political parties right now.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/10/us/tropicana-field-roof-hurricane-milton-florida/index.html

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.

Earlier this week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tropicana Field would be used as a 10,000-person base camp for debris cleanup operations and first responders.

“Tropicana Field is a routine staging area for these things,” DeSantis said Thursday.

The stadium’s roof is built to withstand winds of up to 115 mph, according to the Rays’ media guide.

But as Milton’s strength intensified – eventually making landfall whipping 120-mph winds – the first responders were relocated, DeSantis said Thursday.

“They were moved before the storm,” the governor said. “There were no state assets that were in Tropicana Field.”

 

[Perd Hapley]

The Trop was built in 1990, so before the Florida Building Code had the major wind loads update post-Andrew.

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.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

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.

 

[T-TownDawgg]

You should hate the media instead.

They’ve become servants of and to each other; a four headed wild beast where truth and logic gets devoured.

 

[Perd Hapley]

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.

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.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Didn’t seem to stop the Marlins from playing outside for years. 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.

Marlins had a ton of rain delays when they played outdoors. The Buccaneers play 8 games at home.

 

[The Peeper]

I'd like to see their A/C bill w/ just a vinyl roof and that FL sun beating down on it