Think carefully and be honest.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea, eventually. I don't know about right now, but eventually we will.

Unfortunately, not now. This team needs to get fans in the seats during the regular season first, and then maybe the popularity of the team will get them a stadium. Our financial situation is too unstable right now to get the cash for building it.

Yes, we will get a new home.

 

And it won't be in Miami.

 

Yeah, I said it.

Yes, we will get a new home.

 

And it won't be in Miami.

 

Yeah, I said it.

I don't know why... but I agree with you.

Yes, we will get a new home.

 

And it won't be in Miami.

 

Yeah, I said it.

I don't know why... but I agree with you. As much as I hate to say it, It seems impossible to get a stadium in Miami

Yes, we will get a new home.

 

And it won't be in Miami.

 

Yeah, I said it.

I don't know why... but I agree with you. As much as I hate to say it, It seems impossible to get a stadium in Miami I know why....it's called Miami Arena, American Airlines Arena, etc. really, only one stadium has ever paid off in the history of South Florida - Pro Player\Joe Robbie Stadium. In every other case other than that one, the citizens of South Florida have been suckered to some extent. I think the Marlins, unfortunately, are going to pay the price for all of those other useless stadiums....i don't think it's gonna happen. And if it doesn't happen this year, mark my words - it will NEVER happen.

Not a chance. :plain

Is not over yet but doesn't look good.

Not in Miami...

 

 

But in Florida... Maybe...

opening day 2008 at the new Bacardi Field... ahh breath in that new stadium smell

There's a reeeeeeeeeeeally small chance we'll get one in miami

:crying

Yes, we will get a new home.

 

And it won't be in Miami.

 

Yeah, I said it.

Can't argue with that.

I think its a 50/50 chance. All depends what the taxpayers say on the half a cent tax raise for 18 months.

Think carefully and be honest.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, it seems this thread has become obsolete!

What are the chances we can get one in Homestead?

 

* Lives in Homestead *

 

That'd be awesome.

What are the chances we can get one in Homestead?

 

* Lives in Homestead *

 

That'd be awesome.

That's a bit of a bias opinion

What are the chances we can get one in Homestead?

 

* Lives in Homestead *

 

That'd be awesome.

None ever heard of the great debacle that is the Cleveland Indians Spring Training stadium???

Uh... no.

Uh... no.

Why don't you look it up.... :banghead

I thought you would explain. :lol

I thought you would explain. :lol

 

 

Homestead awaits a hit in pitch for baseball stadium tenant

 

 

By Sherri C. Ranta

Homestead has struck out on one deal and is awaiting the final pitch on another in its search for a long-term tenant for the city-owned baseball stadium.

New York-based Levinson-Fontana Co. in November told the city council a new TV drama planned to be called "Baseball Wives" would not be made. The producers are continuing to make their $424,000 payments for a one-year lease agreement, said Curt Ivy, city manager.

'This wasn't anything to do with the City of Homestead," he said. "The project just didn't move forward."

Producers filmed a pilot last year at the stadium. They were expected to shoot 13 episodes of the baseball drama in and around the Homestead stadium and in some parts of Coral Gables and near Miami's Brickell Avenue.

Producers didn't give the city a specific reason for the change, said city spokesman Charles LaPradd.

"They just said it was the nature of the business," he said.

Some work had already been done to stadium offices, he said, such as installing an alarm system, painting and rebuilding a scoreboard.

When the contract was signed last summer, Vice Mayor Steve Losner and others had high hopes the show's production team would settle in for an eight-year run and bring exposure and jobs to the area.

City officials were also happy with the producers' lease payment that would cover the annual $350,000 cost of maintaining the largely unused 140-acre, $22 million facility that includes the stadium and practice fields.

The stadium was built in 1991 as a spring training complex for the Cleveland Indians but was seriously damaged in 1992 by Hurricane Andrew. Although the stadium was rebuilt, the Indians decided to go elsewhere. Since then, Homestead has been looking for permanent stadium occupants.

Levinson-Fontana Co. has first rights to the stadium for the remainder of its year-long contract, but Mr. LaPradd said he did not know if the company plan to bring any other projects.

The stadium has hosted other media-related events in the past, such as commercials, an MTV episode and a reality-based television show, he said, but nothing with the magnitude and length of the HBO baseball drama that was planned.

Another player in the stadium lineup could bring amateur and professional baseball to Homestead, but city officials are at an impasse with well-known sports agent and Miami attorney Joe Cubas.

As president of Sunshine Baseball Inc., Mr. Cubas approached the city this summer with a proposal. But last week, Mr. Ivy said the city had been unable to reach an agreement.

City officials made a final offer to Sunshine in November, he said, and have not received a response.

In its original proposal to the city, Sunshine asked the city for a 10-year lease with all maintenance borne by the company, plus $50,000 to the city beginning in the third or fourth years, increasing up to $100,000 by the 10th year. The city would also receive a flat fee of 3% of net revenue beginning in the third year. Sunshine also proposed a purchase option for $8 million.

City officials had requested proposals for the use of the stadium and decided to negotiate first with Mr. Cubas before proceeding with another company called Baseball Heaven. That company and its promoter, Mario Signorello, have offered to bring year-round recreational and collegiate baseball and softball tournaments. Mr. Signorello is also organizer of the Homestead Challenge, a collegiate baseball tournament featuring 70 to 90 teams already being held each March at the stadium.

Mr. Ivy said the city has not yet begun negotiations with Baseball Heaven and that Mr. Signorello had not yet contacted the city regarding the 2003 Homestead Challenge

I thought you would explain. :lol

There u go...

Uh... would you mind summarizing that? I read it but that doesn't mean I understand it.

Uh... would you mind summarizing that? I read it but that doesn't mean I understand it.

In other words they paid like a 100 million dollars for this stadium and the Indians were supposed to be tenants but went to another spring training site instead so it just sits there (The stadium)