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Originally Posted by bizaro86
One rumor I've heard from a couple of sources now is the Rays playing at Disney World for a few years. Apparently they already have a 9500 seat stadium with multiple luxury boxes that could be expanded. There's no conflict with it being another teams spring training facility. And you'd sell tickets to visiting fans who are coming to Disney World anyway. It's close enough to Tampa that existing fans could reasonably still come, which is probably better for making the new stadium sustainable (assuming that still goes ahead)
https://www.disneytouristblog.com/wi...baseball-team/ |
That's a very hopeful writer (he even mentions this during the article, lol). I feel we have different definitions of fans still being able to reasonably come. Tampa to Disney World is 115kms. Fans would be driving 2hr, 20 minute round trip during the week if you select "light traffic". Considering those fans would have to leave during rush hour in Tampa, that could easily be a 3 hour drive.
That's not even close to reasonable, imo. Some of the most dedicated fan bases in sports couldn't get their fans to regularly drive 2.5 - 3 hours round trip to watch games, let alone Rays fans.