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Playtwo

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« Reply #14910 on: July 07, 2020, 10:44:59 am »
I'm sure that a small % had nothing to do with COVID.
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jacey1

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« Reply #14911 on: July 07, 2020, 12:13:04 pm »
I saw a TV sports clip on the news out of Nashville a few days ago, and if I heard it correctly, the team name would be aligned somehow with the old Negro Leagues Nashville Stars

Ron

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« Reply #14912 on: July 07, 2020, 12:16:42 pm »
Joe West is a COVID truther.

Lindsey Adler @lindseyadler
MLB considers Joe West a high-risk individual. He plans to return for this season despite that.

"I don’t believe in my heart that all these deaths have been from the coronavirus."


Why is this not surprising?

Dave23

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« Reply #14913 on: July 07, 2020, 01:33:36 pm »
Joe West is a horrible umpire.

His statement likely has some truth in it, like it or not...

Bennett

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« Reply #14914 on: July 07, 2020, 01:46:45 pm »
I saw a TV sports clip on the news out of Nashville a few days ago, and if I heard it correctly, the team name would be aligned somehow with the old Negro Leagues Nashville Stars


Bob Nightengale  @BNightengale  13m
The Nashville Stars could be MLB's next team – and baseball's first with a majority ownership of Black investors.

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They plan to present MLB through a feasibility study and economic analysis why Nashville would be ideal for MLB. The plan is to build a 42,000-seat stadium, in honor of Jackie Robinson, with privately-funded money, and a surrounding mixed-use family sports and entertainment district.

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The goal is to present an official expansion proposal to MLB at the 2021 Winter Meetings in Nashville. MLB wants to eventually expand to 32 teams, but there are no current plans with the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Rays still trying to seek approval for new ballparks. The leading candidate for potential relocation is the Rays, who are exploring the possibility of splitting future seasons between Montreal and Tampa.

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JR

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« Reply #14915 on: July 07, 2020, 01:53:57 pm »
Quite frankly Bennett, I think you're more on top of things about Nashville's MLB bid than I am!  :)

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« Reply #14916 on: July 07, 2020, 01:55:26 pm »
I'm sure that a small % had nothing to do with COVID.

True, there were probably a few deaths that weren't actually COVID.

But given how limited testing was for the first couple of months, it's still more likely that cases have been under counted overall.
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Bennett

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« Reply #14917 on: July 07, 2020, 01:56:28 pm »
Quite frankly Bennett, I think you're more on top of things about Nashville's MLB bid than I am!  :)
I forgot to include this link

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2020/07/07/nashville-stars-mlb-expansion-baseball/5391425002/

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« Reply #14918 on: July 07, 2020, 02:20:13 pm »
It is just a pure coincidence that the coronavirus appeared and all of the sudden more people started to die than in similar months from the past.  I mean a lot more than the 130,000 COIVD deaths currently counted. 

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« Reply #14919 on: July 07, 2020, 02:20:17 pm »
Q: How do you make bad Nashville traffic worse?
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JR

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« Reply #14920 on: July 07, 2020, 02:24:10 pm »
I forgot to include this link

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2020/07/07/nashville-stars-mlb-expansion-baseball/5391425002/

Thanks Bennett.  I guess in the grand scheme of things, I still don't know how I feel about it or even how realistic this is going to be.  In some ways, yeah Tony LaRussa, Dave Stewart, and Dave Dombrowski bring some big names to the effort, but it's not like they have anything going on better in the baseball world at this point either.  But it does help the publicity factor and in getting leak friendly media contacts like Nightengale writing nice things about it. 

I'll also believe it'll be 100% privately funded when I see it to be honest.  The land near Nissan Stadium on the east bank of the Cumberland River is there, but that'll still be a very expensive project for it to be 100% privately financed.  Our current mayor will almost certainly not be putting public money into it (and will likely be driving a hard bargain on other issues even if it's "privately financed"), and whatever public money might be available for a stadium project in the next 5-10 years would go towards the Titans first.   
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« Reply #14921 on: July 07, 2020, 02:29:26 pm »
Q: How do you make bad Nashville traffic worse?
Takes 10 hours to get to Gulf Shores Alabama from here.  Five of them are spent getting through Nashville.
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« Reply #14922 on: July 07, 2020, 02:52:44 pm »
I'm also sure MLB is more than happy to have some hype for a Nashville MLB effort since that'll put some pressure on Oakland and Tampa to get the stadium issues for the A's and Rays resolved.
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Bennett

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« Reply #14923 on: July 07, 2020, 02:55:10 pm »
I'm also sure MLB is more than happy to have some hype for a Nashville MLB effort since that'll put some pressure on Oakland and Tampa to get the stadium issues for the A's and Rays resolved.
Exactly.   Charlotte used to have that role.
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« Reply #14924 on: July 07, 2020, 02:56:10 pm »
I think St. Louis should get a team so those fans can have MLB baseball..
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