re: Confirmed: Braves Leaving Turner Field After 2016 Season

Reading twitter about this is pretty entertaining right now. Lots of pissed off ITPers. Numerous white flight references.

The Smyrna Braves brought to you by Cobb County-Atlanta

Is my guess for the new name

Marietta Rebels, they can just use the old Colonel Reb as the mascot. He can zipline into the stadium before games from the top of Kennesaw Mtn. It will be awesome.

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What is keeping you from going to the future stadium that you are getting at Turner Field?

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I can get to Turner Field faster than I could get to Cumberland.

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you seem very anti-future stadium and I am trying to figure out why

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The one we have is very very nice.
Only 17 years old.
I don't see this increasing attendance.
BUT, as long as it costs me nothing, then they can do whatever they want from my perspective.
Haven't heard how they will pay for it. Or who.

And I am not anti new stadium across the board. I think the GA Dome sucks, and I am for a new football venue.

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I don't see this increasing attendance.

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then you are insane

You have NO IDEA how many Cobb County suburbs would attend games all the time if they were closer

You have KSU, Kennesaw, Marietta, Smyrna, Acworth, Austell, etc etc

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You have KSU, Kennesaw, Marietta, Smyrna, Acworth, Austell, etc etc

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PAulding CO, Rome, Douglasville, etc...

closer to Alpharetta, closer to Roswell, Duluth and Norcross can just get on 285

this is much, much better than the current location


ETA the further you get from the shitty South Atlanta areas, the more likely you will get people attending

Same w my parents...they never go because they're up in Kennesaw/Acworth and they already said they'll go way more now

This is all really simple.

- Season ticket holders don't ride MARTA.
- Season ticket holders don't want to sit in traffic to take their families to south Atlanta.
- Even with similar traffic, at least Cobb is 100x nicer than the current location.
- Season ticket holders live in north Atlanta.
- Cobb County had space and money to provide the Braves.
- The Braves don't care about the ITP'ers that take MARTA to 5 games a year (heard that MARTA riders represented 6% of attendance).

As a disclaimer, I'm a MARTA rider that goes to 5 games a year. My feelings aren't hurt because I don't spend $1k a year.

The area of the stadium is much better, it will be easier to get to for a large segment of fans, out of town fans will have access to a larger variety of hotels to stay at that are already near the stadium and a few more will probably be built. Traffic wise this may be a bit worse for people coming from the Roswell, Gwinnett, Dekalb. While there was no MARTA station near Turner Field, there was the MARTA train the transfer to bus option for some people.