SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The four-year ordeal to keep baseball at Coors Field for three more decades proved to be a new experience for Rockies owner Dick Monfort. On Wednesday, he agreed to extend his club’s lease at the ballpark through 2047. But not without difficulty.
“The days of municipalities building new stadiums without financial help from clubs is over,” Monfort said Thursday. “When Coors Field was built, it was built by the taxpayers and that’s the way it went back then. It’s a different world now. We had to figure out the best way to offset some of the costs.