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re: Where would you move the SEC baseball tournament to?
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:04 pm to Cockopotamus
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:04 pm to Cockopotamus
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Do you need more for the sec tourney?
Have you read the thread? The weekend games have 10,000 plus at them. Every year.
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I always forgot the idiots on here think Cola is one big ghetto
No, it just is bleh. Nobody wants to go there.
This post was edited on 2/12/15 at 2:05 pm
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Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:04 pm to SwayzeCrazy
Jacksonville or Tampa
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:06 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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All this talk of in-town stadiums is just pissing me off about the Cobb County Braves all over again
Turner Field is a shite location. If there was a way to put the new stadium next to the new Falcons place, that would be one thing. Especially having access to Marta, and not having to take a shuttle to the stadium.
But since there isn't land near the Dome, they should have spent whatever it took to get the old GM plant.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:07 pm to NorthGwinnettTiger
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Turner Field is a shite location.
Agree - it was not downtown either.
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If there was a way to put the new stadium next to the new Falcons place, that would be one thing. Especially having access to Marta, and not having to take a shuttle to the stadium.
Like they talked about putting Olympic Stadium where Centennial Park is now (though you can't argue with the success of Centennial Park to the area)
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But since there isn't land near the Dome, they should have spent whatever it took to get the old GM plant.
Actually just listened to the head of the new investment project at the GM plant talk at the DeKalb Chamber Lunch. That place is going to be incredible.
And I say all this about Cobb as someone whose firm's office is literally across 285 from the stadium in the Galleria. I watch it being built every day. It just sucks.
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Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:10 pm to SwayzeCrazy
Bham. It isn't going anywhere. get over it.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:12 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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And I say all this about Cobb as someone whose firm's office is literally across 285 from the stadium in the Galleria. I watch it being built every day. It just sucks.
It's gonna be a traffic nightmare, but I think you'll still see much higher attendance based on the other amenities they're actually building around it. You can get there at 3 or 4 and have a few beers.
If only they'd run a Marta line up 75 inside the perimeter, it'd help out all you ITPers.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:15 pm to NorthGwinnettTiger
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It's gonna be a traffic nightmare, but I think you'll still see much higher attendance based on the other amenities they're actually building around it. You can get there at 3 or 4 and have a few beers.
Yea, I think so too. I just hope they do the multi-use stuff well and not cheesy. I have faith in the Braves brass but I have zero faith in the bozos from Cobb. This whole thing has been a nightmare mess.
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If only they'd run a Marta line up 75 inside the perimeter, it'd help out all you ITPers.
Yea, it'd be great for the Braves and just in general. But that's never happening in Cobb. If they get the "Rapid Bus" thing it would be a miracle, and I don't see that happening. They think the super toll road they are building is going to solve all the issues and the Braves keep telling them about the 43 different "access" point to leave the stadium.
How long will it take you to get over there? That's gotta be a nightmare.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:17 pm to SwayzeCrazy
Memphis
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:32 pm to stat19
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Bham. It isn't going anywhere. get over it.
I guarantee you that Nashville is in the discussion within the next 5 years. The new stadium is gonna be awesome and the location couldn't be better.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:40 pm to SwayzeCrazy
Alternate Big League parks; KC, SL, H-town, DFW, Atlanta, the two in Florida. Be nice for the players to experience the BL parks.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:52 pm to RANDY44
MMP hosts a tourney yearly. A&M plays in it every other year.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 2:53 pm to NorthGwinnettTiger
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But since there isn't land near the Dome, they should have spent whatever it took to get the old GM plant.
Bunch of Doraville neighborhood "activist" lobbied the city council to reject any type pf plans for a new facility for the Falcons so I very much doubt they would have approved a Braves facility.
The perfect place for the Braves would have been where Atlantic Station sits today...too
bad ACOG and the Braves did not have the foresight to do it in the 90's...and Atlantic Station is now a semi dump.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 3:15 pm to TheJones
I'm, yes it is Hoover!!!
Posted on 2/12/15 at 3:15 pm to Farmer1906
LSU is in it this year. Completely different times of year though. And it's always pretty empty. Not really a ringing endorsement.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 3:29 pm to plazadweller
I think most SEC coaches prefer Hoover over the new park in Birmingham because they like being able to stay at the mall location where everything is convenient. They don't want to tax their stay too much coming off a SEC regular season that becomes a grind and then going right into regional play.
Leave it at Hoover until people stop showing up before you mess with attendance.
Leave it at Hoover until people stop showing up before you mess with attendance.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 3:30 pm to Farmer1906
Arkansas also plays in the Minute Maid park tourney every other year.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:21 pm to HTownHog
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That thing costs like 40 million to build didn't it?
Yup. 37 million I think.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:24 pm to SwayzeCrazy
All the championships should be in Atlanta or the Atlanta area, great place for everyone to visit and great venues for football, basketball and baseball.
Coolray is almost brand new (late 2000s) and was a 64 mil cost.
This post was edited on 2/12/15 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:27 pm to SwayzeCrazy
I'd like to see it rotated. SEC folks would enjoy Louisville Slugger Field (Reds Triple A affiliate Louisville Bats).
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Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:48 pm to bbap
Needs to rotate between 2 or 3 cities.. one of those cities needs to be in either Georgia, Florida, Tennessee or SC. Putting it in one of those states would encourage more attendance from the SEC East schools. SC fans would show up in droves if the baseball tourney was in the Atlanta area.
A good option in SC would be Fluor Field in Greenville. We have a traveling series with Clemson every year and we always play at least one of our games there as a neutral site. The other two games are on campus.
And Greenville is a pretty nice town. Smaller, but nice.
A good option in SC would be Fluor Field in Greenville. We have a traveling series with Clemson every year and we always play at least one of our games there as a neutral site. The other two games are on campus.
And Greenville is a pretty nice town. Smaller, but nice.
This post was edited on 2/12/15 at 4:49 pm
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