Yep, a baseball stadium.
Keep in mind, the Rangers have never won a Series, which is a travesty of epic proportions.
The problem is not enough people care about the Texas Rangers because they play in Arlington. It's an issue of logistics. They play about 160 games a year, and 80 of those are at home, and who wants to drive all the way to Arlington to watch a game?
Baseball needs fan obsession to be successful. You need Yankeelike fan obsession in Dallas in order to win the World Series. You need to sell out every game, and you won't do it with the stadium in Arlington.
You need people talking about the Rangers, and the only way people will be talking about them is if they are going to almost every game. Baseball needs to become part of a Dallasite's DNA. You need people sneaking off from work or simply telling their work I'm going to watch an afternoon game, which doesn't happen because Arlington is a long ways away from Dallas.
Every year it's the same old crap as far the team goes. Pitching sucks!!
The only exception was when Nolan Ryan was pitching, but 1 pitcher does not make a team.
So, when you spend $1 billion on this new stadium where Reunion Arena used to be, you really need to consider the heat of the sun. Understand that in Texas we have 3 MONTHS OF 100 DEGREE HEAT all summer long. From a pitcher's point of view that's a nightmare.
If you want to maximize your pitching, you want to be pitching in 70 or 80 degree heat. However, no pitcher is going to complain too loudly because they're all getting paid millions of dollars to basically play catch for a living, but trust me when I say this, no one wants to pitch in 100 degree heat, nor is it possible to maintain a high level of pitching day in day out when you're out on the mound sweating your ass off.
I repeat again, NO ONE WANTS TO PITCH IN 100 DEGREE HEAT, and fans sure as hell don't want to sit in 100 degree heat either. Please get that into your skulls. Pitchers are going against an opposing team that wants to kick their ass. The last thing you want from your pitcher is for them to be competing against the 100 degree sun too.
As long as I have been alive, I've been hearing the same old crap--pitching sucks in Texas. Well, guess what? The reason pitching sucks has to do with the hot hot hot Texas sun.
So, if a stadium can be built near downtown that is designed to somehow give the pitcher a 70 degree pitching mound, which means blocking the sun and using air conditioning, the Texas Rangers will win more than 1 World Series.
Moreover, fans want to sit in the shade when the summer sun is blasting the heat, and you also need to consider that Texas summers are some of the hottest summers in the country. Literally, Texas is about 10 to 20 degrees hotter than most northern states. So, realize there is definitely a big heat difference, or just ask yourself, do I want to sit and watch a game with the hot ass sun beating down on me for 3 hours? Right, no one does. Nor, does anyone want to drive 45 minutes to see a game.
It's time for a new baseball stadium, and this time, design it right and put it in the right place, and the Rangers will begin to win a couple of World Series.
So here is my suggestion: Build a massive baseball stadium with a retractable roof, and redo some of the roads around the old Arena to ease traffic as well as build a massive parking structure. You may also want to rethink some of light rail routes.
Do this and you will not only make Dallas the premier sports town in America, you will also turn Dallas into the most kick ass city in America.
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