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PawSox won't become ProSox
By adamg on Sat, 09/19/2015 - 8:30pm
WPRI reports the new owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox have abandoned plans to move to Providence because Rhode Island said it wouldn't give them the $120 million in taxpayer subsidies and free land they considered their due and because Brown University felt insulted by the amount of money the team offered for the key parcel it owned.
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Wormtown Sox? Revere Red Sox? Malden Sox?
What the hell is going on in Rhode Island? They kill an obvious bad deal involving sports, public funds, and the ability for mountains of graft? Any politician before Gina Raimondo (a fantastic person for the job) would have been getting the extra veal every night on Atwells knowing the amount of money that could be skimmed from this project. Good for RI. They actually got smartbrains for once.
How soon before the new stadium talk at Suffolk Downs or Wonderland gets going? There is a lot more money to be made from a stadium in the Boston area than from McCoy or anywhere else in the Providence market and the Eminence Greasey knows it. Worcester has land south of the train station which might be able to support a stadium and there has been pre-planning in Malden Center for a stadium for years now.
AAA affiliate in same metro area as MLB team?
Is there an example of that anywhere else? Does MLB even allow that?
Edit: I guess you could argue for Tacoma and Seattle, but those are still a lot further apart than Malden or Revere is from Boston.
The Gwinnett Braves are about
The Gwinnett Braves are about the same distance from Atlanta as Tacoma/Seattle.
Also, I know it's not MLB, but starting this season, the San Jose Sharks' AHL affiliate will not just be playing in the same metro, they'll be playing in the same arena.
When the Atlanta Braves move....
... to north of Atlanta after the 2016 season, it wil be 31 or so miles between the two tteans' locations.
Looks like a diff version of the Boston2024 grift
Fortunately with the same result.
From what
I understand, Pawtucket didn't want the Sox to leave so I hope they stay at McCoy Stadium.
Where in the story does it
Where in the story does it say the team felt subsidies and free land were "their due" and that Brown "felt insulted"?
"The proposal ran into huge
"The proposal ran into huge public opposition after the owners initially sought $120 million in taxpayer subsidies as well as free waterfront land..."
and
"[N]egotiations between the team and the state had stopped, soon after it was disclosed that Brown University wanted $15 million for the part of the proposed ballpark land that it owns."
Sometimes you just have to read between the lines
They didn't just say they were buying some land in Providence and building a stadium. They said they wanted $120 million from the state for the deal and they offered Brown roughly a quarter the amount Brown wanted for its land.
So the answer is that you
So the answer is that you totally editorialized without noting it. Is this the Herald now?
So again, where does it say
Again, where does it say subsidies and free land were "their due" and that Brown "felt insulted"? You're allowed to offer less than someone wants and you're allowed to turn it down without feeling "insulted." Geez...
They should have gotten Curt
They should have gotten Curt Schilling involved with this deal