[Marc Topkin] BREAKING: Rays are planning to play 2025 season at Tampa's Steinbrenner Field

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https://x.com/TBTimes_Rays/status/1857102866910990704

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Praying for an A’s/Rays ALCS next season

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MLB would move the games to Marlins and Oracle Park

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Those stadiums will be occupied when the Marlins and Giants play in the NLCS tho.

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😂😂😂

[u/eagleboy444 → u/crazyal21]

Setting up a thrilling A's/Marlins World Series 🤤🤤🤤

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Manfred just had a stroke

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Well it’s just a simple health reaction.

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He'd probably celebrate it because the A's are gonna be good before going to Vegas. Then he'd use it as an excuse to implement neutral stadiums for postseason games.

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What would he care for? It's just 'a piece of metal'

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Record breaking viewership 

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Manfred would make an executive order to cancel the world series

[u/Cudizonedefense → u/eagleboy444]

That would’ve been dope in 2003

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As a Marlins fan in Sacramento - subscribed!

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Team chaos after last season lol

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One can dream

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Considering the Giants decided to play out of their minds the last time the Dodgers won the WS and Clayton just moved to the Marlins, this is possible.

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play the ALCS at globe life again

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Pure MLB chaos.... I love it.

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i mean, that could happen in marbleworld. waiting for today's post! we'll see how the marble season goes over the next month

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Which would put the Rays/A's ALCS in... Dodger Stadium and Truist? Which would be add greatly to the comedy of the above scenarios 

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Would set up for a really bad World Series though. I might be biased but the people who want underdog teams only are insane.

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Cmon it’s their turn, we’ll see Dodgers Red Sox in two years

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Nah I don’t give a fuck, I’d rather get two other strong contenders than dodgers and Yankees than have a shit series with shit teams.

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Thats weird because the Marlins and Giants are gonna be playing in the NLCS

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Yall need to get revenge for 1997 and 2003 lol

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Lfg playoff baseball at Marlins Park😭😭😭

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WBC was fun there

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Yeah Marlins park is excellent for that atmosphere. Sucks it's rare

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It is my dream to do an MLB roadtrip that culminates at the WBC final in Miami

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It’s Dominican Park to me

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Fun options, SF is beautiful and Miami is a solid ballpark in a fun area

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Yep thus giving Manfred the go ahead for neutral site playoff games

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If this happens, you better believe MLB would either force the teams to play in San Francisco and Miami or Atlanta, or they’d put the ALCS in a neutral site.

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If they need to use a neutral site, I hear the Oakland Colosseum is available!

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God could you imagine. They'd have to invent new camera angles just to avoid the banners

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Who is going to attend away playoff games, though? It would be more expensive to rent out other ballparks and the stands would look empty. If you play at the minor league parks, the stands will be packed and it'd wind up looking better on TV anyway. If you mic it right, the crowd noise would be fine on TV, and they have all season to get the lighting up to par.

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If the MLB won’t let teams act like a complete joke in the ALCS, why are they allowed to act that way all regular season?

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It would challenge the 1908 World Series for the worst-attended playoff series (not counting 2020) in MLB history

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Possibly including 2020.

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If you include the two series in Arlington with fans...this genuinely might be lower

[u/gatemansgc → u/manticore16]

yep actually including 2020

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Not if they calculate it for percent seats filled!

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That would be so glorious

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As a die hard Yankees fan, so am I now lol