Why save Tinker Field -- an aging baseball stadium without a baseball team?
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Raise your hand if you've ever visited empty, dilapidated Tinker Field because of its historical significance?
Anyone?
Still waiting …
Raise your hand if you've ever visited empty, dilapidated Tinker Field because of its historical significance?
Anyone?
Still waiting …
Anyone?
I didn't think so.
Then why is there this political hissing match about tearing down Tinker to make room for the $200 million renovation of the Citrus Bowl? Isn't this a no-brainer? Why would you keep Tinker Field?
This just in: Tinker Field is a decrepit baseball stadium that hasn't housed an actual baseball team for more than a decade. And guess what? Even if Orlando ever did attract another minor-league baseball team to play downtown, that team wouldn't play in Tinker Field. Why? Because it's a dump, that's why.
Did some historically significant things happen at Tinker Field back in the day? Absolutely. Babe Ruth once played there back in the 1920s; Martin Luther King once spoke there in the 1960s. But, come on, you don't keep an entire baseball stadium because of what happened there decades ago.
Simple solution: Erect an historic marker or build statues of King and Ruth with a plaque commemorating Tinker Field's historical significance. But, please, let's not delay renovating the Citrus Bowl and luring top-notch sporting events (and economic impact) to Central Florida while ego-driven politicians argue about saving a big, ugly, empty baseball stadium that hasn't been home to an actual baseball team in nearly a generation.
I didn't think so.
Then why is there this political hissing match about tearing down Tinker to make room for the $200 million renovation of the Citrus Bowl? Isn't this a no-brainer? Why would you keep Tinker Field?
This just in: Tinker Field is a decrepit baseball stadium that hasn't housed an actual baseball team for more than a decade. And guess what? Even if Orlando ever did attract another minor-league baseball team to play downtown, that team wouldn't play in Tinker Field. Why? Because it's a dump, that's why.
Did some historically significant things happen at Tinker Field back in the day? Absolutely. Babe Ruth once played there back in the 1920s; Martin Luther King once spoke there in the 1960s. But, come on, you don't keep an entire baseball stadium because of what happened there decades ago.
Simple solution: Erect an historic marker or build statues of King and Ruth with a plaque commemorating Tinker Field's historical significance. But, please, let's not delay renovating the Citrus Bowl and luring top-notch sporting events (and economic impact) to Central Florida while ego-driven politicians argue about saving a big, ugly, empty baseball stadium that hasn't been home to an actual baseball team in nearly a generation.
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