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Holy Fucking Wow Anonymous
Don't adjust your monitors, people. Pictured above is a rendering of the Rays' proposed $450 million waterfront stadium in St. Petersburg. The photos of this plan have been available for some time, but the team just released this image yesterday, which features the park with the roof in the "closed" position. As you can tell from the photo, translucency is king. And after seeing those Lindsay Lohan photos in New York magazine, I have to ask: Who doesn't love translucency?
>> Anonymous
The roof is supposed to resemble a sail and I suppose it does. But it also kinda looks like a kids' pillow fort. Not to mention that the long post in the outfield originally reminded me of Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

Still, I really like this plan, which could be completed as early as 2012. It'll be unique to the Bay area and it's obvious that anything has to be better than Tropicana Field. The sad truth is that until the Rays and Marlins get new stadiums, I'll never attempt to hit every ballpark in the bigs.

This design would make the Florida swing worth it, though.

Now if only they could figure out how to equip it with A/C.
>> Anonymous
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/mlb_experts/post/Tampa-takes-quantum-leap-in-ballpark-design?urn=ml
b%2C67665

(links and other pics n' shit)

This is WAY nicer than that team deserves. What the fuck was wrong with the old stadium, anyway? If the city didn't give them this, did they threaten to move or something? Boo freakin' hoo.
>> Anonymous
Their old stadium does suck, but only the field. If they got a new field it wouldn't be as bad. Anyways, this team brings no one out to the park so I don't know how they expect to pay for it.
>> Anonymous
>>9209
I also plan to hit up every ballpark.

Still, the Rays couldn't sell out a minor league stadium (not hyperbole, they actually tried and failed). The Nationals are getting a new stadum, but at least they can draw a crowd (especially when the Mets play there).

The Rays donm't deserve a new stadium, they'll have to pay their players 30k a year to make up the cost from the lack of fans.