The
Arizona Diamondbacks are unhappy with Chase Field. The team doesn’t want to cough up the $187
million required in maintenance fees over the remainder of its lease with
Maricopa County through 2027, and it wants improvements. So what does a team threaten to do when it’s
unhappy? Why, it threatens to move. Only that threat don’t work no more.
The
county hasn’t jumped through hoops the way the team must have expected it
would. One soon-to-retire county
commissioner went so far as to tell team owner Ken Kendrick that he could “take
your stupid baseball team and get out,” preferably to Kendrick’s birthplace of
“f------ West Virginia.” I do declare
the practice of holding up communities to build stadiums may be coming to an
end. You do have to feel sorry for the
Diamondbacks, though. They’re on record
as saying that have to play in the fourth-oldest facility (opened in 1998) in
the National League, after Wrigley Field, Dodger Stadium and Coors Field. Poor babies.
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