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Friday, November 20, 2009

MLB to host games in Puerto Rico in 2010

Other articles mention the Marlins as the host team, with the Mets as most likely rivals in some game(s).

The most fun part is running articles through translators: 

The director of the Department of Recreation and Sports of San Juan, Maria Elena Mari Batiste, confirmed today to EFE that the stage Hiram Bithorn of the Puerto Rican capital will celebrate games of Great Leagues in the 2010.

Batiste said that executives of Major League Baseball (MLB), industralists and officials of the municipality of San Juan, have met to make specific a project so that not only they are carried out divided of Great Leagues the next year, but to extend it until the 2012. “ We have something concrete and already we will have games next year. My goal is not for the 2010 nothing else, but in the long term “ , it emphasized Batiste. It added that the MLB managers are trying to expand the market of celebration from parties to Latin America, like the Dominican Republic, as well as they have also done in Mexico in previous years. In last March, executives of MLB, industralists and officials of the municipality of San Juan, announced a project so that the Bithorn stage celebrates of 2010 to 2012 parties of Great Leagues and is soothes of two rounds for Classic the World-wide one of Baseball of 2013. The announcement became a day after the capital park, inaugurated in the 1962, celebrated the first round of Group D, where Holland, Panama, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic played. Company MB Sports, presided over by Antonio Muñoz Bermúdez, organized 33 parties like the premises of the nonexistent Expos of Montreal in 2002 and 2003. MB Sports also organized editions of Classic 2006 and 2009 of the World-wide one of Baseball in Puerto Rico.

The Kevin Mitchell Report Posted: November 20, 2009 at 11:34 PM | 13 comment(s)
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   1. TerpNats  Posted: November 20, 2009 at 11:29 PM (#3393274)
Does Bithorn still have artificial turf? With the Twins moving to Target Field, I think the only franchises left that play on turf are Toronto and Tampa Bay.

If a post-Castro Cuba is sufficiently stable (something Mexico currently is not), I could envision MLB expanding to Havana and San Juan by 2020 or thereabouts. Neither area is particularly wealthy, but they love baseball -- and unlike Florida, there's no college football to get in the way.
   2. Posada Posse  Posted: November 20, 2009 at 11:32 PM (#3393280)
Does Bithorn still have artificial turf?

Unfortunately yes.
   3. The Kevin Mitchell Report  Posted: November 20, 2009 at 11:41 PM (#3393285)
Unfortunately yes.


Oh at least it's the nice kind of turf!
   4. Ivan Grushenko of Hong Kong  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 06:44 AM (#3393348)
If they want to do Puerto Rico a favor, why not exempt them from the draft?
   5. Jeff K.  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 07:26 AM (#3393351)
Oh at least it's the nice kind of turf!

All turf is, isn't it?

At least until my patent for "Belligerent ####### Turf" comes through.
   6. TerpNats  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 08:12 AM (#3393360)
If they want to do Puerto Rico a favor, why not exempt them from the draft?
Nope -- go the other way and make the draft completely worldwide, including defectors. The international talent pool isn't going to dry up simply because premier players won't be able to get a huge bonus from the Yankees or Red Sox.
   7. Swedish Chef  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 08:19 AM (#3393363)
Nope -- go the other way and make the draft completely worldwide, including defectors.

I have to wonder if the European Court would go bosman on the NHL draft if it was challenged by an European player.
   8. Jeff K.  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 08:37 AM (#3393366)
What would be the impact of an unfavorable ruling and the NHL ignoring it? Simply no rights monies from any EU member-nation, or merchandise sales in same? I'm trying to think where the EC's jurisdictional influence would extend there, and I'm not coming up with much of anything that wouldn't have the NHL saying "The draft is more important than that, so screw you, we're keeping the draft."
   9. Gamingboy  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 11:35 AM (#3393446)
Nope -- go the other way and make the draft completely worldwide, including defectors. The international talent pool isn't going to dry up simply because premier players won't be able to get a huge bonus from the Yankees or Red Sox.

I think I read somewhere that it could work but it'd have to be a gradual process. Like at first expand it to the Caribbean and Mexico, then Europe, Australia and the other smaller Baseball talent markets/Defector hideouts, and then finally the Asian area (as the Japanese would never stand for it without some sort of fight, possibly even some sort of expansion promise).
   10. Big Red Basketball (NJ)  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM (#3393464)
Re: 6

If Puerto Rico is any indication baseball of the future would then end up looking a lot like baseball of the 1920s.
   11. CFiJ  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 03:07 PM (#3393561)
I was at the 2000 Cubs-Mets season opener in the Tokyo Dome. It was awesome.
   12. Tripon  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 03:12 PM (#3393563)
What would exempting PR from the draft would accomplish?
   13. BarrettsHiddenBall  Posted: November 21, 2009 at 03:17 PM (#3393564)
What would exempting PR from the draft would accomplish?

They only recently became subject to it, and it's supposedly led to a decline in young talent. Without the immediate signing bonuses, many kids are focusing on other sports.
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