{"id":6440,"date":"2013-11-11T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2013-11-11T09:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T14:52:07","slug":"atlanta-braves-abandoning-turner-field-moving-to-new-stadium-in-cobb-county-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/11\/11\/atlanta-braves-abandoning-turner-field-moving-to-new-stadium-in-cobb-county-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves abandoning Turner Field, moving to new stadium in Cobb County in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well I was sort of shocked to see this post this morning on Peach Pundit (the excellent political blog that I contribute to sporadically): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peachpundit.com\/2013\/11\/11\/atlanta-braves-plan-move-to-cobb-county-by-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">UPDATED: Atlanta Braves plan move to Cobb County by 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post has a variety of links, especially within the comments. Peach Pundit editor Charlie Harper speculates that the move is aimed at keeping the Braves&#8217; audience of suburbanites coming to games.<\/p>\n<p>With the city of Atlanta working so hard to keep the Falcons in town with a promised new stadium, this news would seem to throw a number of different narratives up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/braves-plan-to-build-new-stadium-in-cobb\/nbpNQ\/\" target=\"_blank\">AJC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Braves executives John Schuerholz, Mike Plant and Derek Schiller, in a meeting with a small group of reporters, said the new ballpark will be built at the northwest intersection of I-75 and I-285 in the Galleria\/Cumberland Mall area. They said the team has \u00e2\u20ac\u0153secured\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 60 acres of land for the project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be curious to see if Atlanta tries to recruit a 2nd MLB team to play at Turner. Atlanta would seem a large enough metro area to support two profitable teams.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I was sort of shocked to see this post this morning on Peach Pundit (the excellent political blog that I contribute to sporadically): UPDATED: Atlanta Braves plan move to Cobb County by 2017 The post has a variety of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/11\/11\/atlanta-braves-abandoning-turner-field-moving-to-new-stadium-in-cobb-county-in-2017\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,44],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1FS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}