The Braves are moving to Cobb County

This move reeks of Fredi Gonzalez. He figures if he moves the stadium 30 minutes closer to Gwinnett and Rome, he can have bullpen arms x3 on the ready when he blows through whats left of our pen arms for the stretch run. The closer, the better Dusty Bak...er, um Fredi always says.
 
Yeah, he just said they are going to demolish the Ted and build middle class housing there. Haha. Fail.
 
KeithLockhart said:
On my phone posting at work, any news on the Reed Presser?
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Basically he's just saying he was unwilling to take on the extra debt the money the Braves were requesting, and that no way was he going to help finance 2 stadiums at once. As for the existing land, he plans to demolish the Ted and replace it with the "largest development for middle class families Atlanta has ever seen."
 
KeithLockhart said:
Maybe you're right. Maybe it's just because I don't like the Mets at all.

To be honest, as much as people rag on Shea Stadium for looking like a dump, I actually liked it as a baseball grounds. It had a certain charm to it. With Yankee STadium, they at least tried to bring back some of the heritage of the old Yankee Stadium when constructing it. Citi-Field from what I've seen on TV, does not resemble or pay homage Shea Stadium not the slightest.
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Yep, you're definitely right about that. There are no ties to Shea Stadium (which I didn't mind as a stadium either). Instead you'll see links back to Ebbets Field with Citi Field which I think is cool.
 
KeithLockhart said:
This was mentioned a few weeks ago after the NLDS. But as most talk, it kind of had no steam and just died.
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It's extremely expensive, too. I find it hard to believe the city was balking at $150-250 million in stadium/area improvements, but was willing to build a random MagLev track to Turner Field.
 
Turns out City of Atlanta was going to give everyone personal teleportation devices. New stadium doesn't look so cool now, huh?
 
MadduxFanII said:
but...look at that shiny thing they built in Pittsburgh!
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But isn't the location upon which the new Pittsburgh stadium was built just a better, more aesthetically interesting – not to mention actually within its city – site than the proposed location for the new Braves stadium?
 
Everytime I think of Cobb County, I think of Dan Kolb.

"This is Kolb Kountry ..." has a nice ring.
 
In all seriousness, if they ever made a statue of Bobby, I would want it to be of him jawing off to an umpire. Anything less just wouldn't feel right.
 
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