Comments on: Change of Heart – Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark

By: Ben Felder

Ben Felder — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:49:07 +0000

Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark is definitely a better name than Newcastle Field, but I didn’t get the outcry about the ballpark being named after a Casino. Casinos are a major part of the Oklahoma economy, advertisements for them are all over the ballpark and inside the Chesapeake Energy Center and its not like the baseball stadium his a historic site that is devalued by the name, in a way that Wrigley Field or Kauffman Stadium would be with a corporate name. However, the new name fits the region and will promote a local tribe that probably doesn’t get as much attention as it should for all the work it does in the state…including casinos.

By: Larry OKC

Larry OKC — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:57:44 +0000

Steve: could you clarify something? It has always been my understanding that the City gave up the naming rights in perpetuity to things like the Ballpark and Arena. Someone posted that the City gets the naming rights back in a few years?

Early articles indicated that the naming rights were literally given away to the team owners and the owners received a previously undisclosed sum (just like now). Recent articles seem to read that the City sold the rights to the baseball team owners for $100,000. Am I misreading that or is the $100K what the team owners got from the various Southwestern Bell/SBS/ATT&T namings?

By: slackmeyer

slackmeyer — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:12:11 +0000

Hmmmm…. seemed that way to me; the city gave the RedHawks total control of the ballpark name, they sold it to the tribe, and then the city became upset with the tribe’s first choice of names…

By: GenghisKDuck

GenghisKDuck — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:41:08 +0000

slackmeyer: No.

By: Nick Roberts

Nick Roberts — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 06:41:37 +0000

#jelz

By: slackmeyer

slackmeyer — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Yep Nick, that’s a real snapshot of the billboard on Broadway Extension. They rotate Twitter feeds…

By: slackmeyer

slackmeyer — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:29:20 +0000

Genghis, that’s the whole debate, isn’t it?

By: GenghisKDuck

GenghisKDuck — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:16:24 +0000

If the Red Hawks sold the naming rights to the
Chickasaws why can’t they name it whatever they want to?

By: JeffreyC

JeffreyC — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:24:09 +0000

I heard on the news that they were a couple of weeks from having signage up. Now it will be a couple of months as they now have to do a signage redesign and approval I suppose – unbelievable.

They’ve just never learned down there at the ballpark have they. You would have thought “Southwestern Bell Park” would have taught them something.

By: Nick Roberts

Nick Roberts — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:58:52 +0000

Steve, is your twitter feed really on outdoor billboards? That is awesome