Rays NEW Tampa Ballpark Renderings (🚨 FIRST REACTIONS)

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1. IS THIS TOO EXPENSIVE OR AMBITIOUS TO HAPPEN?

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2. 0:41 The transparent dome is made using ETFE(the same as used in the Chief’s new stadium).

3. Coming from a former California schools facility professional, California regulations, unions and construction delays pushed price of SOFI into the stratosphere. Like costs in each venue would have been 30%-40% more expensive in California than Florida.

   Florida is more builder friendly.

   Mike

4. Thanks for recognizing our three mascots!

5. 17:30 That third takeaway is wild. If the Rays pick up Messier, can Gretzky be far behind.

6. SoFi Junior.

7. Things aren’t getting any cheaper. This is probably the going price for a domed stadium these days.

8. The college has changed its name because we now offer bachelor's degrees, hence the name change from HCC to HC Hillsborough College. I am current faculty at the college

9. Buy out the Yankees facility and upgrade it. Nice ballpark already, just needs to add seats.

10. Sofi 2.0

11. The Rays could trade with the Yankees for the Minor League Stadium to keep everything they own in one area.

12. The fries in that totally not-AI-rendered view of the Rays ballpark village kind of look like a burger.

    At this point, I don't think it's even a question of if it's too ambitious or expensive as much as it is "let's see the numbers that go with the pretty pictures, and let's see ironclad contracts and timelines." Otherwise, they're just pictures without any real meaning associated with them.

13. Why don’t the cities or states just buy the teams? Cut out the middle man owners who take home all the profits and get others to pay for everything. I love this stadium design and surrounding area, its awesome!

    Just wish the city, state, college makes the profit for the people.

14. Baby SoFi Stadium.

15. @brodiebrazil , my first reaction to the renderings is the translucent roof allowing the sun to shine through. BIG MISTAKE! The Houston Astros tried this when they first opened the Astrodome and it didn't work. Fielders were constantly losing the ball in the bright sunlight that was shining through those windows, and they ultimately had to paint over the glass panels so the sun could no longer shine through them, and their fielders could catch the ball a lot easier. The Rays may have to do the same thing. Also, this could cause a "greenhouse effect" making it hotter and more difficult to air condition the vast interior of the place.

16. I would like to hear or read about the Yankees officials reaction to having this giant Major League home of the Rays directly adjacent to their Spring Training stadium. Personally, I think the Rays should purchase it from the Yankees and make it their own Spring Training home instead of Port Charlotte, and then the Yankees should build a new Spring Training home, maybe in a nearby place like Oldsmar or New Port Richey.

17. All of this while for the Rays while the White Sox do nothing.

18. I think it would be interesting to do a segment comparing initial "official" renderings to the actual finished product of other stadiums.

19. All it needs is a rail line to the stadium and it will be elite.

20. I have to admit that when I saw the thumbnail I thought it was SoFi lol

21. The middle mascot looks headless

22. The glass roof thing’s been tried. It didn’t go well. The architecture’s also just hideously modern

23. We can add "The Pizza Slice" to the list of Rays stadium renderings

24. A new stadium for fans not to show up

25. Now compare this to the A's in Vegas. No way they are building something something similar on 9 acres

26. Sofi 5B wasn't just the stadium you should investigate better

27. The land in Los Angeles costs way more accounts for a lot of why sofi is so expensive. The state of Florida loves giving sweetheart land deals to billionaires, so it's plausible it will cost much less than sofi.

28. I wouldn’t be in the least surprised if the Rays and Yankees worked out a deal to swap spring training facilities…and if the Yankees don’t want to go to Port Charlotte, they could maybe work out something with Disney.

29. You notice there’s never any parking in these renderings?

30. Challenge for you Brodie: Go back and get the early renderings for some existing stadiums and show them side by side with the finished products.

31. Better than John Fisher’s epic flop.

32. SoFi is a way bigger stadium and wasn't that price tag for the whole project? I don't see this happening regardless, way too much. and you gotta assume the Ray Jay is gonna want a major renovation soon with a canopy or something. Bucs are a way bigger priority in Tampa.

33. Florida won't have the extra expense of earthquake proofing, so it could be much cheaper

34. This is the cost of doing business. The tampa area added 400000 new residents in the last 5 years. Im not sure why $1 billion sounds like a lot. $300 million sounded like a lot 10 years ago and now anyone would be happy to give the rays $300 million. This is why cities should be quick about funding a stadium instead of saying no and fighting it. If you dont want the team just have them leave instead of kicking the can and paying more for the stadium 10 years later. The rays have wanted a stadium for years and now you have to pay tripple what it would have cost years ago.

35. Why do they want 3 stadiums just off literally the side of several runways. Didn’t no one learn anything with the ups accident and buildings right off the end of the runway? That was only a 35 foot tall building too. Could you imagine that same accident but into one of these stadiums during an event. Death toll would top 9/11

36. Soooo.. A big greenhouse… in Florida.

37. Does it get hot in those stadiums? Sofi looks like it's always hot and sweaty.

38. I think this will get built right after Las Vegas gets finished developing all of its land.

39. SoFi has an umbrella, there’s space around it for air flow from outside (similar to T-Mobile Park in Seattle, the moving roof doesn’t seal the inside from the outside, this design looks more like a fully enclosed dome.

40. The Rays may commit to covering future renovation costs, but considering how quickly sports facilities are replaced these days, whose to say the Rays even plan on staying there past 30 years? And if the local government is covering a significant chunk of the construction, then isn't the city, county, and state are essentially paying to entirely rebuild the community college out of their own pockets?

41. The rays need to come to Nashville.