It just doesn't feel right. It looks horrible. It may be one of the worst ideas in man's history. Next to having ten best movie nominations at the Oscars®, playing soccer in a baseball stadium is the most horrible thing Americans have done since folding the Miami Fusion.
But all joking aside, shoving soccer fields into baseball stadiums make watching a soccer game unbearable. You can do it with American football because the field is thinner and because you can play football on clay. Soccer is played on grass. So as most baseball fans abhor the world's game, let's not try to put our round peg in their square holes.
Latest culprit, FC Tampa Bay (are they officially the Rowdies?). Currently playing in the Yankees Spring Training home, these numb nuts are falling into the same trap soccer in this country has been falling into for years. So thank you Tampa Bay, way to really step it up. I don't care if you are building a new stadium. Never play soccer in a baseball stadium, it's part of the cardinal rules of living behind getting 10 hours of sleep per night, never playing poker with a guy whose name is a city and dating a girl with a tattoo of a dagger on her person.
I'm just saying.
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Well, what would you prefer? The football stadium at Hillsborough High School? 68,000 empty seats at Raymond James? Do you expect the government to build a soccer-specific stadium for a non-MLS team in a city where MLS previously failed (fairly or not)? I understand your concern about aesthetics, but none of the alternatives are better or more viable.
Funny, the Strikers will be playing at Fort Lauderdale Stadium, the former Spring Training home of the Baltimore Orioles... Don't you feel like a "numb nut?" Way to really step it up Strikers...
Way to go Fort Lauderdale! You show those Rowdies how it's done! Oh wait...
As a tried a true Striker Liker I do not condone playing soccer in a baseball stadium. Nor do I condone playing soccer in a cricket stadium (we have one here in Fort Lauderdale and it has been used for MLS pre season games).
Let's not throw aesthetics aside, for the entire product to be good it has to look good too. I'm just saying...
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