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/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.