"Utah is being very aggressive, Oregon is being very aggressive. They're passing legislation — $800 to $600 million — to pay for a new baseball stadium. That's not anything the Diamondbacks are looking for. They're looking for some recapture of income generated that they can bond off of. The team will put way more — hundreds of million dollars more — than any public dollars that will go to keep that asset here.
"I mean, if we're not careful, we're going to see the Arizona Diamondbacks become the Utah Pika, or whatever awful animal they'll change it to. They took our Coyotes and turned it into the mastodon, the elephant — it's something terrible. It hurts my heart. We can't let that happen to the D-backs."
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That quote is so dramatic for no reason
I imagine if Salt Lake gets a team the Millers will just keep the Bees name since they already own the AAA team of the same name.
However I’d rather just get an expansion team than take another team from AZ.
Would be nice to actually get an original expansion franchise in a big 4 sport for once rather than just a relocation.
If this happens and AZ ends up with expansion teams in the near future, this will be an impressive rivalry.
Based on the upvote / downvote ratio of this post, the AZ sports fans who lurk here aren’t happy about the idea of this. Which, as a Utah sports fan, neither am I. I’d rather have an expansion MLB team.
No one I’ve spoken with is interested in Arizona’s sloppy seconds.
The Mammoth were one thing since the NHL literally asked Ryan Smith to take them since Alex Meruelo dropped the ball so hard he couldn’t even pay rent.
But Arizona can keep their dead snake in its un-airconditioned shoe box. Give us an expansion team and tell Portland to pound sand.
The Millers have the chance to do the funniest thing ever.
Well as a Utah mammoth fan from Portland Oregon, y’all can have the D-backs if that happens. I’d rather Portland get a brand new MLB team, only way I’d be cool with a relocation is if they wipe the history clean like with Utah Hockey
I’ve lived in Phoenix for about 5 years now and it’s just undeniably a horrible sports city. I know I’m spoiled growing up and living throughout the east coast most of my life where the sports scene is really passionate, but Arizona just has zero soul, it’s miserable.
If they move them here they should rename them the Utah Coyotes
Honestly though, why should tax payers pay for sports stadiums?
I have ZERO interest in a baseball team if the Millers are involved. They were never willing to pay for talent when they owned the Jazz, and in the MLB where there is no salary cap, a team owned by the Millers will be perpetually at the bottom of the league standings every year and Utah will become a market that MLB players won’t want to play in.
Post this in r/Arizona and there will be riots.
Fuck you all. You can’t have our baseball team. No one cares about hockey in AZ, but you can all go fuck yourselves this time around.
No way are the D-backs moving. Aren’t they beloved down there?
lol fuck off and leave our baseball team alone. these “fans” so many people speak of are completely fake. our true fans do in fact have spirit and soul
We should take the Cardinals and deplete Arizona completely
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An MLB team would be a bust in Utah, especially with Larry Miller’s spoiled idiot sons running it.
Let’s go for the kill
Cardinals next. Is there any precedent for moving entire universities?