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Originally Posted by Vulcan
There was a reason it was put in a piss poor location. No one else was willing to have it.
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Yeah, this is bull####. Both Mesa and Tempe had land and were willing to make it work for the Cards and Yotes but things got very political when it came to finances. Glendale swooped in and which both teams jumped on. In retrospect it was a horrible business decision for the long term, but the owners made out like bandits n the short term. The owners should have gone with either Tempe or Mesa, and laughed their way to the bank in the long term. Instead Tempe and Mesa each have big malls, and the Chicago Cubs have a spring training facility to die for, which only generates revenues for a month of the year. Politics doomed everyone in this mess. But that is not a surprise. Arizona politics is some of the most ####ed up in the United States.