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Posted by MATHA531 on Mon Oct 22 18:27:18 2012, in response to Re: What if the Dodgers had never moved?, posted by mcorivervsaf on Mon Oct 22 13:23:07 2012. mc....I won't question you there was a lot of that at the time, absotively posilutely. But also, a lot of the fan base that O'Malley wanted to appeal to were following the American dream as the country was surbanizing. Check the attendance figues for all the teams. They were in a state of decline as the nouveau riche were leaving the inner cities for their own home in the suburbs.Yes at the beginning there might have been that attitude. But the games would still have been on channel 9; the team would still be the Brooklyn Dodgers with all the historic ties. Much of that resentment would have evaporated as fans considered just what the alternative would have been. Although it's off topic, I've had the same discussion with some of my friends about the Islanders ultimately re-locating to the Barclay Center. Of course the best solution would be if somebody would spring for a new building; but Nassau County and the town of Hempstead are broke and people in the referendum showed how little the vast majority of the populace wanted their taxes to go up. So...come 2015, it will be probably for the Islanders either Brooklyn or good bye. Some fans will say Brooklyn over my dead body. But then they'll turn on the games on MSG, see the same uniforms, the same players and realize just what the alternative would have been. Sure I agree a locaton in Brooklyn for the Dodgers was probably the best solution to the problem. But let's face it. The eminent domain laws were there and while after a long court battle, O'Malley might have prevailed if Moses were willing to fight for him, it would have taken years. The Barclay Center litigaton makes that quite clear and at least regarding Barclay Center, there is some semblance of housing involved in the plan (whether that housing will ever be built is a complete other issue). So as so many of the Dodgers fan base living on Long Island began to realize Shea Stadium or whatever it would have been called had oodles and oodles of parking, a LIRR station in the complex that resistance would have disappeared. After all, a good portion of the Mets fan base when Sheat Stadium opened were Dodger fans! There is absolutely not the slightest doubt that Queens would have worked but O'Malley was already committed to LA. |
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