Baseball in Portland?

Jack Bogdanski's blogging about the possibility that a major league baseball team may yet again be looking at Portland.

The debate over whether Portland should have major league baseball is heating up again, with news that the owners of the Florida Marlins team (halfway decent, National League East) are saying that they would like a new home.

When last we left this saga, the State of Oregon had enacted a financing package whereby the state would put up around $115 million, paid for out of income taxes on the players' salaries, toward a new public stadium in Portland. About another $235 million would be needed, and the city and local baseball fans have roughed out a financing plan that would come up with the rest out of a 10 percent ticket tax, special licensing fees on businesses within the stadium district, a tax on stadium concessions, a reallocation of the some of the local hotel tax, rent paid by the team on the stadium, and some assorted additional odds and ends.

Read the rest over at bojack.org and discuss over there.

Previously at BlueOregon, your comments helped sway City Commissioner Randy Leonard on the stadium siting question.

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