Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Huizenga Stands Firm on Stadium Lease.
Sarah Talalay of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that Wayne "The Leech" Huizenga refuses to modify the Marlins' lease at Pro Player Stadium. According to Huizenga, it was negotiated to reflect the terms of the "average" major league lease at the time it was executed.
Also according to Huizenga, "We didn't hear [former owner] John Henry bitching about the lease the whole time." Henry may have spent almost every waking minute of his tenure in south Florida trying to get the Marlins a new ballpark, but if he never uttered the magic words "our lease stinks," it doesn't count, right?
Not that the Marlins should feel welcome at Pro Player. Huizenga blamed two of the Dolphins' missed field goals on turf problems resulting from the Marlins' extended occupancy last fall, and said, "We wouldn't kick them out, but we'd like them to go."
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Sarah Talalay of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports that Wayne "The Leech" Huizenga refuses to modify the Marlins' lease at Pro Player Stadium. According to Huizenga, it was negotiated to reflect the terms of the "average" major league lease at the time it was executed.
Also according to Huizenga, "We didn't hear [former owner] John Henry bitching about the lease the whole time." Henry may have spent almost every waking minute of his tenure in south Florida trying to get the Marlins a new ballpark, but if he never uttered the magic words "our lease stinks," it doesn't count, right?
Not that the Marlins should feel welcome at Pro Player. Huizenga blamed two of the Dolphins' missed field goals on turf problems resulting from the Marlins' extended occupancy last fall, and said, "We wouldn't kick them out, but we'd like them to go."
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