[NFBWATlk] oh you guys! this is a shock!

[Marci Carpenter]

Safeco insurance did not renew its lease after the end of last season. The stadium was re-renamed prior to the beginning of the season. 

Marci


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> On Aug 9, 2019, at 1:44 AM, Lauren Merryfield via NFBWATlk <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is what I get for not keeping up on the games!  I've had so many dr.
> apts and all kinds of stuff I couldn't listen to the games this season and
> this!
> 
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> Mariners' home facility renamed T-Mobile Park 
> 
> Seattle finalizes 25-year naming-rights deal with new sponsor
> 
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> By Greg Johns 
> 
> December 19, 2018 
> 
> SEATTLE -- Mariners fans will be learning more than just the names and faces
> of new players next spring. They'll also be getting used to watching games
> at T-Mobile Park.The club announced Wednesday that it has finalized a
> 25-year naming-rights contract with the locally based telecommunications
> company. The 47,000-seat, retractable-roof
> 
> SEATTLE -- Mariners fans will be learning more than just the names and faces
> of new players next spring. They'll also be getting used to watching games
> at T-Mobile Park.
> The club announced Wednesday that it has finalized a 25-year naming-rights
> contract with the locally based telecommunications company. The 47,000-seat,
> retractable-roof facility had been known as Safeco Field since its inception
> in 1999, but that naming-rights deal ends on Dec. 31. The Mariners will play
> at T-Mobile Park through 2043.
> Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but sources have indicated that
> T-Mobile will pay the Mariners about $3.5 million per year for the naming
> rights.
> The partnership must be approved by the Washington State Major League
> Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District (PFD), but that is expected to
> happen quickly, due to the fact that the PFD finalized a 25-year lease
> extension last week.
> The process of replacing Safeco Field with T-Mobile Park signage will take
> place over the coming months, and most of it expected to be completed by
> Opening Day on March 28, when the Mariners host the defending World Series
> champion Red Sox.
> The front rotunda of the park and the roof trusses will be lit up at night
> in T-Mobile's magenta color scheme, and street-level lighting on the outside
> of the park will be converted to the magenta glow in 2020 or '21, though the
> inside look of the park will remain largely the same.
> T-Mobile is the nation's third-largest wireless carrier. It employs about
> 6,200 workers at its headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., and a total of about
> 8,100 in the Puget Sound region.
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> Whoa!
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> Thanks,
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> Lauren
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>  Consider the flowers of a garden:  though differing in kind, color, form
> and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are refreshed by the waters of one spring,
> revived by the breath of one wind, invigorated by the rays of one sun, this
> diversity increaseth their charm, and addeth unto their beauty.  ....
> 'Abdu'l-Baha 
> 
> Advice from my cats:meow when you feel like it. My audiobook is available on
> Audible.com.
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