Ranking the Stadium Sites

by craig on Aug 23, 2006 6:06 AM EDT in News and Rumors

After yesterday's announcement that MLB was looking for a downtown Miami location for the stadium, Hialeah's Mayor had this to say:

Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina said Major League Baseball officials contacted him last week with news that they were looking at the possibility of a stadium on land near the shuttered Miami Arena -- ``but only to assure me that this was a backup.''

''The Hialeah stadium is still the No. 1 priority we're working on [for] a deal,'' said Robaina, who is traveling with Miami-Dade County officials to New York to present the plan to baseball officials next week. ``That's my concentration, and that's what MLB has represented to me.''

Jonathan Mariner, an executive vice president at Major League Baseball, declined comment.

I have no idea whether the downtown location is Plan B to Hialeah or not. But I do know this: neither one is funded at this point.

The downtown site sounds a little more attractive to me. But when it is all said and done, either will do. Just as long as a stadium is built somewhere.

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I'm hoping for Hialeah

I live in Hialeah, so naturally im pulling for the Hialeah site to get picked. personally, I hate driving downtown. everything is so congested there, and having to take I-95 several times a week is going to suck. if its downtown or nothing then ofcourse i'll end up going there, but my preference would be Hialeah.

by Fluxuation on Aug 23, 2006 11:36 AM EDT reply actions

Not sure how I fee about this

Quick-and-dirty online map sites tell me the trip to that downtown location (from the western side of West Palm Beach) would only take about an hour and a quarter, not that much longer than a current game trip. However, I've read entirely too many Dave Barry columns to be at all sanguine about driving in downtown Miami, or indeed any closer to Miami than is involved in the current trip to a Marlins game.