My first choice is the Orange Bowl Site, but if that can't be had, a ballpark near PPS would be next choice.

Would metrorail from MLK to PPS really make much of a difference?

 

To whoever thinks it is the best site: The average over the last couple of years is probably like 12,000. PPS is the best site, my buttocks.

Any new stadium in Dade will save this franchise. People have gone to the Orange Bowl for decades. They will show up to see the Miami Marlins in greater numbers than ever. Then again, it is impossible not to. All the Broward and Palm Beach people continue to say they are a majority of the fan support. I ask, what fan support? With such an insignificant number of so called fans actually buying season tickets, Broward and Palm Beach lose their say in the matter. Less than 5,000 season tickets is a joke, and the excuses we make is a bigger joke. Show up, and hope there is a stadium in place by March 15, or get ready to say hello to the Memphis Marlins. This is fact. Well, maybe the Memphis part isn't. But the team will DEFINITELY leave.

THE OB is the worst possible site for a new baseball stadium in South Florida. I say that as someone who could walk out my front door (in Miami Beach) and be there in fifteen minutes (on a normal day sans game traffic).

 

This article is just one more thread in the fabric of Marlins dismissiveness being woven by the Herald. Of course Edie Laquer says there's no land downtown, the last thing she wants to see is developable land used for a purpose that removes it from her potential inventory of marketable properties. The same goes for others with development interests. A wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf.

 

The fact is there are hundreds of acres north of the old Miami Arena that comprise a virtual wasteland in the middle of the city, much of it in proximity to 95. There is significant county owned land in the vicinity of northern 826 as well as near PPS. In short there are numerous options besides the OB site.

well, if all this land is there, why isn't any of it being offered to the Marlins? Because these politicans are hypocrites. The OB is NOT the worst site. It is perfectly fine. Maybe not the most ideal, but certainly fine. Notice how the team hasn't said it is sold entirely on playing at the OB? That's because Samson is consistent saying the team is looking at all possibilities. Getting this done is the only thing that matters. If not, the team goes. While I would hate it, I'd blame the market not the team or baseball.

well, if all this land is there, why isn't any of it being offered to the Marlins? Because these politicans are hypocrites. The OB is NOT the worst site. It is perfectly fine. Maybe not the most ideal, but certainly fine. Notice how the team hasn't said it is sold entirely on playing at the OB? That's because Samson is consistent saying the team is looking at all possibilities. Getting this done is the only thing that matters. If not, the team goes. While I would hate it, I'd blame the market not the team or baseball.

 

I suppose you could build a new stadium on top of a toxic waste site but outside of that the OB is, at least in my opinion the worst.

 

I realize you have only a superficial, uninformed understanding of what are the driving forces behind the OB option but being uninformed is no excuse. While I agree that half a loaf (keeping the Fish in South Florida) is better than none, nonetheless that doesn't make the OB site any better than it is.