The Owner Needs Someone to Pay for a New Facility

I hope the voters tell that fucker to blow a dead rat.

 

What do you have against dead rats?

 

Voters have no one to blame but themselves.

 

King County voters narrowly rejected the taxing plan for Safeco Field in 1995. But the vote was close enough that the legislature went ahead and passed a taxing plan to pay for it.

 

A tax for a new football stadium in San Diego will be an interesting vote. The Padres conned the fans into building Petco Park with a World Series season, but there is no love lost for the Spanos family and even though, I believe, the stadium would be paid for through hotel taxes, I bet it doesn't pass.

 

I don't think that has much of a chance to pass at all, especially considering it has to get a two-thirds majority.

 

The Diamondbacks case is fascinating to me. If they are expecting a public groundswell of support for a new stadium -- or even for the county to pay for renovations -- they're high.

 

How many arenas have the Coyotes had ? Three? Four?

 

Unlike the NFL formerly with Los Angeles, baseball has no golden-goose market that teams can use to leverage a ransom. The D-backs are kind of stuck. Vegas maybe?

The Rangers are a unique case because there were rumblings about Dallas stepping up to build a downtown park and Arlington responded.

 

Two. And they have had legit issues. Their need to move (then and now) is reasonable. That's not the same as saying taxpayers should spring for it, of course.

 

Think the team will just build an arena on ASU property and have ASU basketball and hockey play there, or are you guessing the Salt River Reservetion?

 

IIRC they're looking at a combo arena, most likely downtown, for the Suns and Coyotes. The Suns' arena is what, 25 years old? Also IIRC, it's just down the road from Chase Field. The Coyotes left because it was a bad arena for hockey.