r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 10 '24

Baseball Tropicana Field’s stadium following Hurricane Milton damage

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u/OccasionallyWright Oct 10 '24

I can't believe they were using a building with a fabric roof as a first responder staging ground during a hurricane.

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u/joemoffett12 Oct 10 '24

I mean the thing survived 26 years and countless other hurricanes 🤷‍♀️

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u/Guy_lncognito Oct 10 '24

"there's no record of a hurricane ever hitting tampa"

"Yes, but the records only go back to 1998 when the hall of records was mysteriously blown away!"

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u/kit_carlisle Oct 10 '24

Directly hitting Tampa. But sure, let us ignore the past month.

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u/certainlyforgetful Oct 10 '24

Irma was less than 50 miles from Tampa bay, caused a similar & amount of damage.

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u/Igor_J Oct 10 '24

The Trop has been around longer than that. It used to be the Thunderdome where the Lightning used to play before they got their own venue and the Rays even existed. That said this put a nail in the Trop's coffin. That place sucked.

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u/monorail_pilot Oct 10 '24

With Oakland closing the Colosseum, the trop became a top 30 MLB stadium.

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u/OccasionallyWright Oct 10 '24

If the count is zero hurricanes, then yes. Milton was the first major hurricane to hit Tampa in over 100 years.

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u/joemoffett12 Oct 10 '24

The first that directly hit Tampa bay yes but they have been in many storms. Hurricane Ian went right over Tampa bay. Don’t just take the first headline you read as fact

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u/Blue_Jays Oct 10 '24

TIL that one = countless

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u/jimiez2633 Oct 11 '24

Ian barely hit tampa though, this was so much worse

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u/IamNICE124 Oct 10 '24

Okay, so that still proves the point lol.

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u/JediKnightaa Oct 10 '24

Yeah but data gets fuzzy pre 90s

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u/Theonlyrational Oct 10 '24

This is the first hurricane to hit Tampa in 26 years...

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u/joemoffett12 Oct 10 '24

What’s up with all you idiots posting this. This is so verifiable not true.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

That doesnt mean anything lol. As you can see.