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Tropicana Field and Minute Maid Park?
Is it just a coincidence that the two Florida teams play in stadiums named after orange juice? Or did they do that on purpose?
My bad! Got some stuff confused :)
Please don't think I'm an idiot. I have no idea what half the fields are called and the other night Florida was playing Houston, they said something about Minute Maid Park, I jumped to the conclusion that it had to be Florida's place simply because I made the connection with Tropicana Field. Didn't bother to take a half a second to find out who was the home team. Sorry! :)
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- FungoLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Not really - two different competing sponsors in two different states. Minute Maid Park is the home stadium of the HOUSTON (Texas) Astros. It was originally named Enron Field.
Add: Don't feel embarassed - there are a million plus factoids invovling baseball - and nobody knows everything. It's difficult to keep up on the stadium names now that many have corporate sponsors.
Attached is a website that shows all of the Major League stadiums which you may find interesting.
- JenJenLv 51 decade ago
Tropicana Field belongs to the Tampa Bay Rays. The other Florida team the Marlins play in a stadium called Dolphin Stadium. Minute Maid Park belongs to the Astros who play in Houston Texas. So there is no coincidence since the parks listed in the question are no where near each other.
- 1 decade ago
Houston is in Texas.
And yes, it is coincidental. They are competing orange juice companies, but that one sponsored one park had little to do with the other sponsoring a different park.
If the Enron criminals had not, well, been criminals, cheating and lying and stealing and embezzling and so forth, and (somehow) Enron was still in business, the Astros would still be playing in Enron Field. Skilling is still in prison and Lay is still dead, so there is a wee bit of justice in the world.
But Enron did crater, house of lying cards that it was, and since the Astros couldn't just play in Astros Unsponsored Park, they found a new title sponsor, local juice company Minute Maid.
The Marlins, Florida's other team, currently play in Land Shark Stadium, which is sponsored by a beer producer, but that sponsorship expires in less than a year, and they'll put up another new sign soon after.
- \m/Lv 41 decade ago
Tropicana is made near Tampa so it makes sence that its name is Tropicana and minute made is in Houston
- Anonymous1 decade ago
sponsership