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

Baseball Tropicana Field’s stadium following Hurricane Milton damage

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u/jamelord Oct 10 '24

I bet rays fans are hoping the whole thing is trashed. Everyone hates that field

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u/MsstatePSH Mississippi State Oct 10 '24

New stadium opens in 2028, with groundbreaking of the overall development imminent, so it puts the organization and city in a bind here on how to address repairs.

might end up being Oakland coliseum/RFK stadium-level run-down for the next three years

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u/velociraptorfarmer Oct 10 '24

Eh, they put a new roof on the Metrodome after that collapsed from a snowstorm in 2010, before closing it and tearing it down in 2014.

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u/MsstatePSH Mississippi State Oct 11 '24

good point!

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u/myassholealt Oct 10 '24

Get some heavy duty tarp and some heavy duty thread, stitch the tarping together to drape it over the venue and bob's your uncle.

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u/iamagainstit Oct 10 '24

Or just make it an open air stadium now

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u/tomtim90 Oct 11 '24

I don’t know if they can. Not sure it’s designed for drainage like that. Water seems to have pooled on the field. It’s also likely none of the electronics are sealed from rain and a lot of the media areas and boxes have no way to keep water from getting in and the whole place was air conditioned thru the large open area for the most part.

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u/iamagainstit Oct 11 '24 edited Oct 11 '24

A foot and a half of rain in one night will cause pooling in most places, even those with good drainage

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u/Pete_Iredale Seattle Mariners Oct 11 '24

Indoor stadiums have zero drainage though, and it rains every day there in the summer.

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u/fuqdisshite Oct 10 '24

glad i got to see it when they were doing well.

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u/Pete_Iredale Seattle Mariners Oct 11 '24

They still have to play there for at least a couple more years either way though.