Where should the Rangers' home stadium be located?

Because there is no way the Rangers are going anywhere for at least 15 more years

It’s just down the road from me which is cool, but they also have one of the best mexican food restaurants around in Campuzano’s. You should try their fajitas!! Also, from 6 to 9 during the week it’s 3 dollar margaritas. The high school has one of the best football teams in the state, and their marching band is swell. The Rangers should locate their stadium right off of highway 77 and 287 behind the Holiday Inn next to Target. Speaking of Target, man do they have low prices! The proximity to Target would make for some great pregame shopping! Well there are many more reasons the Rangers should move to Waxahachie but I can’t think of any off the top of my head. Did I mention they have a Waffle House?

Go Rangers!

Imagine how much money they could save if they just used the Roughrider’s field

Can do attitude, business-friendly.

This market can’t support a baseball team, duh!

39.8 mpg, 28.5 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 2.9 apg, 68-70 FT’s, .500 FG%, .375 3P FG%, 1.3 TO/g

Ranger100 or Ben Rebstock

And no, I’m not going to stay in Arlington.

Thank god for Rangers100. Although, I’m sure I didn’t cite enough evidence to support my opinion. Maybe he’ll tell me what I’m doing wrong.

go away

I really don’t know how to deal. The bane of my existence as a yout’, the bringer of the ass-whipping, and my best friend going through some serious life grief…I am so very worried.

Apologize, carry on then. Sorry for bringing this here…have a great evening!

this clown continues to argue with Ben. You see, I know Ben will actually ban someone if they are stupid enough and get on his nerves. We have seen that Rangers100 definitely has the stupid part down. Now I’m just hoping he gets on Ben’s nerves enough for him to show this moron the door.

might be worth a hundred thousand or so fans because where ever you go you will gain some fans and lose others.

Being a consistent playoff team is probably worth closer to 3/4 of a million to a million extra fans.

Give it up.

it should be discussed at least once a month. Same goes for whether the Rangers should go back to red uniforms or stick with blue.

it’s that arlington is inaccessible from a lot of areas – but getting better.

being able to take the train to the mavs games is pretty cool (irving). arlington opting out of DART to give their DART money to the Cowboys was very shortsighted IMO. i had not heard that DART was somehow getting a rail stop in arlington, but, if so, that’s going to solve a lot of problems – if it somehow ties in communities to the north.

downtown people going to the game(s) – the HOV lane going west on I30 is super easy. anyone complaining about going to arlington from downtown dallas is pretty pathetic.

the extension of the GBT (now goes from plano to irving to I30 makes this drive MUCH easier. 360 is a complete punch in the nuts – especially if you are fighting your way out 114 for the pleasure of more traffic on 360. that’s a crappy drive from 4pm until 7pm.

I have a nephew who is almost three years old. He’s very big for his age (99th percentile in height and weight) and left handed. He can already throw a baseball like a mothafucka.

Where do you guys think I should tell him to sign when he’s eligible to be drafted?

Also, which sport should he play?

He lives in Houston, so the Astros/Texans are the hometown teams, but his father is a huge Rangers/Cowboys fan from way back.

I’m thinking about emailing JD about him, you can never get on these kids too early these days.

there’s been 213 comments now to a fanpost about one dude wanting the Rangers to be within walking distance of his office and the Texas Giant being where them filthy rednecks live.

If it’s just about location and accessibility, the A’s are a BART ride and a 2 minute walk away for like 7 million folks and they still draw only a million and a half folks a year. Granted, you’re practically visiting a dungeon with a baseball field in the middle, but that’s beside the point. It’s easy as hell to get to and still no one shows up, and why? Because the team has been uninspiring, broke, and wants to leave.

In 2003, at the height of The Big Three and Moneyball Mania, the team was pulling in 2.2 million fans, more than the AL average, and why? Because they were winners, stable, and were talking about bringing the fans a new Oakland-based stadium to rid themselves of The Black Hole.

As long as fans can get to the game, they’ll go if there’s a winner involved.

TL;DR:
It’s the winning, stupid.

Let’s say for the sake of argument that Chuck Greenberg comes out and says that he wants to move to a brand new ballpark to Downtown Dallas. Where do you want to put the stadium? Is there room anywhere within reasonable walking distance of the downtown area for a stadium and a parking lot? Ever go to an Astros game? They don’t have a parking lot, so it costs at least $20 to park and you have to walk 3/4 of a mile if you don’t get there an hour and a half early.

Then there’s traffic. Have you ever been on 35E at 5:30 on a Friday? What about all the one-way streets in parts of downtown?

I know you didn’t think about these questions because YOU want to be able to step outside of your office and go to the game, but it’s not all about YOU. Most people will still drive to ballgames, especially in the Metroplex where everything is so spread out.

Where’s the one that says “click this and the author will do everyone a favor and FUCK OFF?”

FTW.

Ft Worth to eat and Arlington to watch baseball.

I wouldn’t change a thing.

We could drain the lake and build the stadium over that. The DART rail will be opening up there in December so that solves the problem of mass transit. But more importantly it’s less than 5 miles from my front door.

Source: DFWMaps.com.