David Samson
David Samson
business conversation cooperate indication initial interest mayor political progress time
We have made progress from an initial conversation to an indication of interest from the business community, from the cooperate community, from the fans, from the political community. We're serious, because Jeffrey and the mayor would not allocate their time this way if they weren't.
ask attract baseball businesses corporate deciding decisions government help
Governments do make decisions when they attract businesses to the community. Baseball is not the only industry, by any stretch, to ask for government help when deciding where to have its corporate headquarters.
involved progress
They've made more progress because they've been more involved on a day-to-day basis.
baseball florida longer south
No longer can baseball in South Florida be assured,
sit suspect
Nothing is scheduled. I suspect we'll sit with them at some point, but nothing is scheduled.
financial plans talks until
Talks are serious, but until financial plans are discussed, it's preliminary.
definitely financing plan presented serious talk
It's definitely serious when you are presented a financing plan and when you talk as much as we are.
agreed deal financing mind plan preference require small stay talked
We talked about a financing plan they had in mind that would require a very small contribution by the team. We told them our preference is to stay in Florida, but we have no deal in Florida. We agreed that we will stay in touch.
afternoon break games keeping night open options people spring turned
We scheduled it that way. They were spring break games and we turned them into afternoon games so people who had commitments at night would be able to come to the game in the afternoon. It's keeping all the options open for everybody.
We've never had this many renewals this early,
open opening sadness year
This was going to be the year we were going to open the new stadium. So opening day I'm projecting sadness for myself, because it was going to be in a new stadium.
asked comment cusp evaluate options prior process reviewing
We've had no comment because we were asked by Jeffrey to evaluate all options prior to making another comment, and that process is on the cusp of being completed, ... We've been reviewing all our options.
beyond cannot dolphins scenario stadium stay
We cannot contemplate a scenario where we would stay at Dolphins Stadium beyond 2010.
baseball imagine involved looking
To imagine baseball getting involved is not far-fetched. How the involvement will end up looking is not yet determined.