How did the new Dodgers league team in Ontario reached his name

You can say that you are building a stadium, but expecting is accelerating when society sees how the stadium might look. As for the city of Ontario and architects, it included the presentation of its minor stadium in the league.

Vice element, that is. The new team owners have not yet owned the team. The name will come later. Dodgers will not move in the California League until 2026.

On this drawing last year: the sky in Ontario, with a strange eccentric slogan of a donkey, wearing sunglasses and flying a pillar plane. It was, frankly, wonderful.

It was the essence of the minor tournaments. I don’t know what is the mule of the sky? Anyone is hardly known as the bolder garbage, and the garbage panda is one of the most important brands in the palace.

This year, the newly rented team staff dropped hints about the actual name, about the city’s hump. On the walls of the team offices: “It was cleared to take off.” The city referred to the fans of the stadium, nicknamed “The Airport” and “The runway”.

Only last week, it was the largest hint of all: the announcement of the Naming Rights Agreement with Ontario International Airport, near the stadium that you will be able to see flights take off. Stadium Name: The Obit field (spelling it: ON, like Lax).

On Thursday, eight months before the first match, the team recently revealed: The Ontario Tower Buzzers.

It is a tribute to the movie “Top Gun”, and the challenging line by the pilot that Tom Cruise played: “It is time to include the tower.” The tall amulet, a bee called Maverick, was named after the Cruz character.

The team’s name balances heritage and prophecy. The city pays the price of the stadium and wants to promote its airport, which was used as an air base in World War II before returning to civil use and expanding the center of an internal empire.

“We want to honor this legacy and enjoy it,” said Alan Benefides, General Manager of the Tower. “We have found something that we think is a pleasure in the league, instead of just pilots or pilots.”

“We want to honor this legacy and enjoy it,” said the Director General of the Tower, Jowers, while standing in front of the new team stadium, by name.

(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)

Pilots? Indeed, in Las Vegas. Pilots? The name of the California League, the failed California team in Riferside (the university owner did not allow the sales of beer, which is similar to the death penalty in the small league championships).

The tower boxes should be better, in a football field, to be the second best place to see a ball game in Southern California, behind Petco Park and before the Dodger Stadium and Angel Stadium.

The last cost estimate in the city is $ 120 million, to get a first -class stadium. The cost of the stadium that opened this year for Triple-A Triple-A in Sult Lake City is $ 140 million and $ 8,000.

Only Field 6500 – but with 3,200 seats between the gloomy pole, the rest, wherever you prefer: on the outer stadium, on the grass, in the picnic areas, in a stadium, or in bars, clubs and wings, including the couple where you can talk to the players.

There is an ice cream salon, a dining hall, and a circular luggage. After home running, the Splash pillow will erupt, and the fans will rotate in a tape. The runway will light, as well as the antennas on the amulet.

The results panel are hexagonal, just like those in the Dodger Stadium. Soon to appear: a mural from Fernando Valencallia. All fans, not only fans in luxury seats, can see players in the beating cage.

In the afternoon I visited, the temperature was 108 degrees. The sitting area will not have blurry machines, as did the old angels stadium in the California League in Palm Springs.

“It will not be 108 at seven o’clock,” Benavids said.

His target audience: “30 -year -old mothers”, who said he controls the calendar and spending for the family.

“Not everyone is a baseball lover, but they want to have time,” he said. “They want to be far from their mobile phones and television and to be outside, and do not spend a lot of money, and they do not have to drive to Los Angeles or Saint Diego.”

The crews are building an Ontrd in Ontario last month. Last week, the team announced the agreement of naming rights with Ontario International Airport. (Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)

The California angels company will play in Rancho Kokamonga, eight miles away. Another team in the California League in San Bernardino plays 25 miles. The angels themselves 35 miles away.

“We will fight for the dollar, but I believe that our affiliation with the evaders is huge,” said Benefides. “It is the most important brand in baseball, depending on who you ask. I am a Dodger lover, so I think it’s.

“I think this will be the most beautiful small league stadium in the country, regardless of classification.”

If the tower funds do not win in that battle for the dollar, Ontario’s investment on the field may turn into a poor investment.

The stadium is a broadcaster what the city is modestly called the Ontario Sports Empire, a 200 -acre facility for training and competition that the city described as “the largest sports complex of its kind in the west of the Rocky Mountains.”

There is definitely a market for sports tourism, for all of these children and all their parents wandering in the weekend championships in the baseball, soft ball, football, football, tennis and more. But this market can be used without investing in nine numbers in a small periodic stadium. (Naming rights payments come from airport revenues, not taxpayers in the city; the airport is given in conjunction with the city and San Bernardino Province.)

Offer in the OTT field, which was opened in 2026.

(With the permission of the city of Ontario)

This investment on the field revolves around the local entertainment option for residents, with many homes in the pipeline so that the population can double from nearly 200,000 to about 400,000 within two decades. NHL kings already have a simple league company in the city square, and city officials are planning restaurants, hotels and shops that surround the pitch and sports complex.

Dan Bell, a city spokesman, said Ontario added about 1,200 new homes every year.

Bell said: “They are reasonable.” “You cannot afford the cost of the Los Angeles market anymore.”

On Thursday, at the present time, the team announced the name of the tower, the goods offered for sale were offered. Home shirts say boxes.

Is it the boxes or boxes of the tower? It is like solutions or corridors.

“We will let the fans decide,” said Benefides.

I still wonder about honor. When the tower boxes take the stadium next year, “Top Gun” will be 40.

To a younger generation, “Top Gun” may mean empty staring. Don’t worry, Benavids said. You will be able to enjoy a night on the field.

He said, “We will not tend to this film by 100 %.” “This will not be a” pistol higher “museum.

Well, then, the tower boxes: you were cleared to take off.