Mes excuses si cela est contraire aux règles du sous-marin, mais comme il s’agit du plus grand sous-marin sportif de Vancouver, j’ai pensé que ce serait amusant d’en discuter.
J’adore le baseball et les Blue Jays, mais si jamais Vancouver avait une équipe, je changerais mes alliances en un clin d’œil.
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No way anyone in the Vancouver area has the capital to compete as even a middle market team
Absolute pipe dream idea in an election year.
Going to take major money to build a stadium and a major shift in corporate support from the Canucks. Should also mention, Jays fans, Mariners fans. Tough to switch allegiances.
Feasibility. Don’t see it. I’m a big baseball fan as well.
Terrible idea. Also no stadium. Also a terrible idea.
Bro we can barely keep an MLS franchise alive, how about we just focus on keeping that one first lmao
This guy’s an absolute dead beat trying to be re-elected. Focus on the Whitecaps instead. Pipe dream
The MLB commissioner made mention of talking to a city in « Western Canada » as an expansion spot. I assumed he was talking about Calgary. Now I just hope that he was.
A multi-billion dollar stadium is the last thing I want to spend my tax dollars on.
Vancouver is the perfect city for baseball. Summer nights at a ballpark would be amazing. I want it to happen.
The same guy who didn’t want the playoffs here because security and entertainment would cost too much.
No thank you. Can we focus on our MLS team instead?
We can’t get a Whitecaps stadium or even Canucks practice facility off the ground. Where do they expect to put a dedicated 35,000+ seat baseball stadium? That’s a hell of a reno on Nat Bailey.
If you believe this and vote him in again, you deserve what comes lol
Bro saving himself in case whitecaps leaves Vancouver lol. World Cup year he’s thinking about MLB than figuring out stadium situation with the whitecaps 😂😂😂.
lmao we can’t even find an owner with the moxy to make an MLS team work here, let alone someone who’s gonna build an MLB stadium.
NBA, NFL, and MLB have moved beyond the means of local real estate barons when it comes to the price of buying in. Even the Buss family had to sell the Lakers because they knew they couldn’t compete with the new generation of NBA owners.
Until someone with $6 billion burning a hole in their pocket shows up on the Vancouver sports scene, you can forget about any new franchise coming here.
At this point, we would be lucky to keep the Whitecaps.
Edgar Martinez has some thoughts on this…
A ballpark where hasting racetrack currently sits, I would easily go to a dozen plus games.
how can one man be so tone deaf
Let’s get a triple AAA baseball experience first.
Put it in Surrey on a SkyTrain Line. I know it won’t happen but I would be season ticket holder day one.
Honestly it would probably be the difference between me eventually moving out of the lower mainland or staying here.
Similar to everyone else I don’t see it happening either and frankly this is such a long shot imo that its a waste of time and money to spend any effort on this at all.
You’d need a stadium and due to the closing of Hastings Racecourse there’s at least a theoretical simple location for one. But the costs of that alone is probably $1.5-2 billion and I don’t imagine provincial or municipal tax payers would sign off on using a portion of public funds. Then factoring in the expansion fee, player and admin salaries, etc I just don’t see any business person or group looking at the costs and thinking that Vancouver is the place to go vs Montreal or some other major city in the US that doesn’t have a MLB team yet.
where they going to play?
no shot this happens.
just free positive PR for Ken Sims to say it
I would LOVE a baseball or basketball team. It is still never going to happen unfortunately.
Does Ken Sim just hate the Canucks and hockey? Dude openly stated he doesn’t want a Cup run because it would be « difficult » to manage but wants to add another sports team to the mix?
I do t think it’s sustainable and eventually will fold like the Grizzlies.
Let’s focus on keeping the Whitecaps first!
Canucks don’t even have a practice facility, Kenneth (Sim). Sort that out first.
Obligatory Fuck Ken Sim
Normally, wouldnt an initiative like this be pushed by the private sector?
Is it common in Canada for this to be led by the city??
Where on earth would a stadium be built?
Ken Sim is trying to rally some sports votes but doesn’t actually want to do any work on it.
Maybe we can build a new stadium for the Whitecaps, maybe the Canucks might get a practice facility, wow wouldn’t it be cool if we got a baseball team?
It’s all just bs « we had a meeting » or « here is a possible proposal ». Can’t wait for next months memorandum of understanding to bring the Grizzlies back.
Its all a pipe dream but it would be cool to have another team to have an emotional attachment to when the Canucks stink. Having competition would hopefully better the Canucks efforts towards a better fan experience as well. They can get away with anything right now.
I think it would be awesome, but as others have mentioned already here, it doesn’t seem very realistic. There’s no stadium, to my knowledge there isn’t even a plot of land that’s being discussed for the development of such. There’s hardly any interest from potential owners. And it looks like the MLB isn’t really interested in Vancouver, there are several markets that’s are much higher priority than us
How about focusing on that Whitecaps stadium in the PNE area first?!?
Is there such a thing – or any examples – where a baseball stadium can double as a soccer stadium?
Would be amazing if we reinstated the waterfront stadium idea.
The only way we’d get a team and that would do well is with a taxpayer funded stadium and if Bell/Telus decided to own the team (we’d then have a deep payroll to field a good team and not become the Pirates)
So he wants a baseball team but would never want them in the playoffs because policing would be too expensive and would make his job difficult
As cool as it would be I’m ok with the Jays and Mariners.
Maybe Francesco Aquilini can start an MLB team here and it can also be a big blueberry filled pile of shit like the Canucks currently are.