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Originally Posted by mrducks
I would love it if they brought a MLB team out here but will take NFL and NHL if they are being offered. I doubt they will build a baseball stadium but maybe they could use the NFL stadium for MLB as well. It has been done before and although it ruins the field for baseball games after an NFL Sunday, I would take that over no baseball at all.
But I really am getting ahead of myself here. Let's get hockey and football and see if they can fill the stadiums/arenas.
The NFL stadium is a fantasy, at least as it has been presented. The only reason the deal hasn't been completely laughed off is because the the R-J is owned by the same guy pushing for the stadium.
The parts about how we will almost certainly lose the Riviera convention center expansion if we build the stadium and that the private investors will get their money back from the tax increase but still run the place seem to be missing from all the R-J articles. Most or maybe all of the articles slant in favor of the stadium for obvious reasons.
The stadium has massive opposition, including powerful people that want the convention center. You just wouldn't know it from reading the paper here.