Showing posts with label Richmond Flying Squirrels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richmond Flying Squirrels. Show all posts

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Is The Diamond Doomed to History?

 I feel that The Diamond is Doomed to History in Richmond, Virginia. I'd love Richmond and I've never been to Richmond, and this Cuts a Deep Nerve because the Diamond is Not Riverfront Stadium in Waterloo, which is Still in Commission, and John O'Donnell Riverfront Stadium in Davenport, which is its Original Name.

I am thinking a lot of 2020 is making Minor League Baseball Full Season Towns play "Scared to Lose" like Lisa Loeb's "Stay" and Towns like Mine had to basically, reskin a Period Specific Late 1990's/Early 2000's Stadium to keep Baseball in Business in Cedar Rapids.

The whole selling point of The Diamond was having More Bathrooms than that of Texas Stadium, which has since been decommissioned and that was in the National Sports News. The reality in the 804 is Everyone has Been Arguing and No One has been Cranking Up The Juice, especially if their Team (The R-Braves) hit the exits over the Same Diamond.

Nothing Good Comes Out of the Box if Labor Day is the Finale, and I wished everyone in the RVA heeded that lesson in the 2000's because they'd now have little and no other choice but to build new.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

How Come is it The Diamond Can't Easily Be Replaced?

The one question that has Richmond Flying Squirrels Fans and the Richmond Community flying off the handle is how come is it the Diamond can't easily be replaced? It has more concrete than Texas Stadium, which is alas no more and the Mid 1980's Gamble for the Diamond is causing Early 2020's Headaches.

It was built before the Americans With Disabilities Act made more of a Cookie Cutter Mezzanine Single Bowl Stadium Structure and it was not necessarily built with Skyboxes in mind. Any facility in Richmond would have caused prior consternation and usually, it has been one side against the other.

I love Richmond and would love to Visit Richmond, and they've had a Progressive Streak before, like having the Richmond Arena and getting wise to the Horse's Fences of the Fairgrounds Raceway and Expanding the Track. I feel like I would growl and bitterly complain seeing the increasing Piece of the Minors and the Cost of Owning a Piece of Minor League Baseball being too cold and prohibitive.

I don't know what will the ownership disputes lay bare, but, they'd lay bare secrets that should not be on the Family Table. Richmond would be a Single Team Town, and that would be putting it bluntly.

I don't think their Baseball Community has recovered from the Braves taking their show on the Road and leaving the Richmond Community with new Customs and Traditions.

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