Orange Bowl Deux?

Further news regarding the near-completed deal for a Marlins stadium at the OB site has been reported by the Sun Sentinel. The stadium is now to be completed by 2011, and should seat 37,000. Seems like overkill, or maybe in their negotiations somebody accidentally added a zero to the capacity. Anyway, as mentioned before, the Marlins will have to put up more up front but less overall. At first glance, that irritates me, but knowing the corruption and incompetence of construction down here in Miami, the Marlins will have to fork over at least another 100 million since they are now responsible for cost overruns.

As a sidenote, there are two interesting revelations regarding the deal. First, the team is to be renamed the Miami Marlins, which is a ridiculous idea. Everyone knows they play in Miami and the alliteration just doesn't work here. No doubt they'll come up with some goofy new uniforms too when one of the few things they have going for them is their current unis. And secondly, Mayor Manny Diaz intends to build a new Orange Bowl stadium next to the new baseball stadium and use it primarily for soccer. Not sure why you would spend 50 million dollars on this idea instead of using it on renovating the old stadium and staging more soccer matches there. It would be moderately appreciated on this end if the new stadium were to have the same layout as the old, but that's wishful thinking and it's simply not the same.