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Posted by MATHA531 on Sat Oct 20 08:56:57 2012, in response to Re: What if the Dodgers had never moved?, posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Oct 20 07:26:43 2012. The location of Shea Stadium......in complete hindsight, on this one issue (and few others), Moses was probably right. Given what was happening to the Dodger fan base to which O'Malley wished to appeal i.e. they were moving to pursue the American dream of owning their own home with a two car garage out to at first nearby Nassau County, Flushing was the perfect location. As I've said, this business that they couldn't be called the Brooklyn Dodgers is absolute poppy you know what. If O'Malley did not have the totally immoral offer from the Los Angeles City Council, he would gladly have taken the Flushing Meadow location. The "boundary" between Queens and Brooklyn is totally artificial, simply based on the way some Dutrch towns were laid out inm the 17th century.For years and years, the leases the Mets signed to play at Shea Stadium were considered the most advantageous in baseball and while some might point at how Shea Stadium was allowed to deteriorate in the late 19970's, much of that was because of the loss of interest in the Mets by the Payson family after the elder Ms. Payson passed away. We can now be pretty certain it would have worked very well and resolved all the perceived problems. As far as Atlantic/Flatbush, it was never to be. Do not, as some idiots do, compare putting a 17.5k seat arena there with putting a 65k baeball only park. The Ratner proosal was carefully drawn up to include a housing portion to circumvewnt eminent domain laws. The fact of the matter it was pretty clear the city could not condemn the land for O'Malley because of the eminent domain laws. O'Malley had to know that so it is very possible his whole thing about Atlantic/Flatbush was just to try to save his place in history and not look like the greedy carpetbagger he was. Just look how long it took to clear all the juydicial obstacls to building Barclay Center where at least a case could be made it wan't simply to benefit a private entity (even though, of course, it is). So...no LA offer, a lot of grumbling, but the Dodgers end up in Flushing Meadow still making lots and lots of money and probably playing in a state of the art ballpark say called Citi Field patterned after the late Ebbets Field today. |
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