David Samson
David Samson
advertise awareness days hurricane makeup schedule september talk
We always have hurricane awareness, we advertise that at games, talk about it, and we try to schedule more off days in September for makeup games.
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Miami, the Gateway to the Americas, could well be the first American city in 35 years to see its baseball franchise leave. People in Washington D.C. know very well how long it took to get a team back.
deadlines fake save trying
There's no more fake deadlines or real deadlines. This is about the Marlins trying to save its franchise. We need a place to play after 2010, and we don't have one.
early grow sure sustain viable view
The early view we have is that it's viable right now. We need to see how revenues are going to grow and make sure it can sustain itself.
capacity design designed next orange seat terms
Seat capacity will be similar, but in terms of design, that was designed to be next to the Orange Bowl, so the design will be different.
gets member team valuable
Carlos is a valuable member of this team and we look at him the way we look at all of our players: Everyone gets evaluated at the end of the year,
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Portland has more work they need to do to become a Major League city, and we have more work we're doing in terms of going to other cities and exploring those cities.
built five focus last seven south staying teams
Our focus is on staying in South Florida, that's our only goal. Five of the last seven new (major league) ballparks were built after teams started to relocate and didn't.
financial plans talks until
Talks are serious, but until financial plans are discussed, it's preliminary.
simply
We simply must play in a baseball-only facility.
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We have made progress from an initial conversation to an indication of interest from the business community, from the cooperate community, from the fans, from the political community. We're serious, because Jeffrey and the mayor would not allocate their time this way if they weren't.
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We've discovered now that our best chance, and the best chance for baseball in South Florida, is to get a building built somewhere and making it work. The important thing is keeping the team here.
early somewhere temporary
We have to be somewhere in 2011 and we could be somewhere as early as 2008. There is a temporary place to play in Norfolk, which is something we could look at strongly.
answer asked both few questions
We asked them a few questions, they asked us a few questions. We're both going to answer each other's questions and then see about another meeting.