You think a MLB team in Knoxville would work?

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Let's say the Tampa Bay Rays wanted to move to Knoxville. Three questions:

1) Would the city support building a baseball stadium?

2) Would East Tennessee support a baseball team consistently?

3) Do you think that it could work?

Just curious.
 
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I'm assuming your just kidding, or high. The answer is NO WAY
 
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Absolutely! I'm often amazed that we don't already have one - but sure wish we did.

As it stands now, every time I want to spend 4+ hours watching 8 dudes standing around watching 2-3 other guys performing some mundane and largely useless act, I have to sit in a government office or inside a unionized factory. After a while, that gets weird.

Considering that the Smokies is one of the hottest tickets in the upper east side of that portion of downtown Gatlinburg which falls between red lights 4-7 - I think that it's safe to say that the demand is definitely there.

Hopefully, us taxpayers will be asked to chip in for a new stadium, too.
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Tenacious D said:
Absolutely! I'm often amazed that we don't already have one - but sure wish we did.

As it stands now, every time I want to spend 4+ hours watching 8 dudes standing around watching 2-3 other guys performing some mundane and largely useless act, I have to sit in a government office or inside a unionized factory. After a while, that gets weird.

Considering that the Smokies is one of the hottest tickets in the upper east side of that portion of downtown Gatlinburg which falls between red lights 4-7 - I think that it's safe to say that the demand is definitely there.

Hopefully, us taxpayers will be asked to chip in for a new stadium, too.
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Tenny, as the Chairman of your fan club, I have to vehemently show my angst at your baseball hatred. What did us baseball guys ever do to you?
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NYYVol said:
Tenny, as the Chairman of your fan club, I have to vehemently show my angst at your baseball hatred. What did us baseball guys ever do to you?
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I really don't know. If I could explain it, I would. I used to love it, and kept up with it regularly - but then the strike, and the whole buried head in the sand steroids debacle - I first lost a taste for it, and now loathe it. The moving strike zone of umps, the pitcher who goes on the DL for an ingrown neck hair, Peter Gammons treating it like its some tango of the gods, that it's called, "America's past time" - when it clearly is not.

I actually hope to see the banishment of professional baseball in my lifetime....and it seems well on its way (via the number of youth who play other things nowadays). The world would be better without it.

I don't buy the whole romantic notions and nuanced attractiveness of it - and it doesn't help that it is one of the most boring things you could hope to watch.

I can't put my finger on it, but I just hate it.
 
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Tenacious D said:
I really don't know. If I could explain it, I would. I used to love it, and kept up with it regularly - but then the strike, and the whole buried head in the sand steroids debacle - I first lost a taste for it, and now loathe it. The moving strike zone of umps, the pitcher who goes on the DL for an ingrown neck hair, Peter Gammons treating it like its some tango of the gods, that it's called, "America's past time" - when it clearly is not.

I actually hope to see the banishment of professional baseball in my lifetime....and it seems well on its way (via the number of youth who play other things nowadays). The world would be better without it.

I don't buy the whole romantic notions and nuanced attractiveness of it - and it doesn't help that it is one of the most boring things you could hope to watch.

I can't put my finger on it, but I just hate it.
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I take it you've never watched a NASCAR race, TD?
 
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Tenacious D said:
I really don't know. If I could explain it, I would. I used to love it, and kept up with it regularly - but then the strike, and the whole buried head in the sand steroids debacle - I first lost a taste for it, and now loathe it. The moving strike zone of umps, the pitcher who goes on the DL for an ingrown neck hair, Peter Gammons treating it like its some tango of the gods, that it's called, "America's past time" - when it clearly is not.

I actually hope to see the banishment of professional baseball in my lifetime....and it seems well on its way (via the number of youth who play other things nowadays). The world would be better without it.

I don't buy the whole romantic notions and nuanced attractiveness of it - and it doesn't help that it is one of the most boring things you could hope to watch.

I can't put my finger on it, but I just hate it.
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Fair enough. Just glad to hear it wasn't a story involving tape, lube and a fungo.
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Successful baseball cities - NYC, Boston, Chicago, LA, Philly, St. Louis, Knoxville. One of these is not like the others.
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