Because, you know, Turner Field is 17 years old. Way too old for a stadium these days. I like the suggestion that I saw on Twitter that the Rays should move into Turner Field.
Cobb County is putting up the money, in the form of school budget cuts. That's not what they said, of course, but it's probably reality.
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The organization has indicated publicly that they are not satisfied with the team's current stadium situation. Last year, Braves executive vice president of business operations Mike Plant told Jim Galloway of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution:
"As we sit here in 2012, this isn't where we would have this stadium today. I'm not saying it's a bad place, but it doesn't match up with where the majority of our fans come from."
"As we sit here in 2012, this isn't where we would have this stadium today. I'm not saying it's a bad place, but it doesn't match up with where the majority of our fans come from."
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Cobb County itself has more people (about 700,000) than the City of Atlanta does, FWIW.
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