2025 MLB Speedway Classic

[Amazin69]

I see that pretty much every seat under $200 is garbage. (Maybe the first few rows of the $100 Yarboroughs [but most of those are blocked by the scoreboard, anyhow], but you'd be so far away…I couldn't stand having to look across the running track at the LA Coliseum before the Raiders made the Commission remove it…looking across a race track and a bunch of open space to peep over the LF fence? Pass.)

But if WWE has taught us anything lately, it's that this country is full of fools willing to overpay on cheap credit and worry about it later. Light 'em up!

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

Jeez, they really are going to cram everything in there. So, the question stands: game, race . . . and concert . . . all in one day?

With a little luck, they'll even let the lions loose in the seventh inning!

But no, there will not be a NASCAR race that weekend. The remaining Cup race for Bristol, the Bass Pro Shops Night Race, is on September 13. The lower series' races are that same week.

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

There is something else that is weird about this. At first, I thought the event was being co-sponsored by Speedway, the convenience store and fuel station chain.

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But no. I see that "Speedway" comes from the name of the racetrack. If you look closely, you see that the 2025 MLB Speedway Classic is presented by BUILDSUBMARINES.COM.

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Now, I don't play them but I know of online tank battling games such as World of Tanks in which I believe you can build and customize your own tanks (in exchange for microtransaction fees). I honestly thought BUILDSUBMARINES.COM was something like that.

But no. Their website, https://www.buildsubmarines.com/, does say "Want to build submarines?" but then goes on to say "BuildSubmarines.com connects job seekers with companies currently manufacturing the U.S. Navy’s next-gen submarines. Our site is your launchpad for building a lasting career and taking part in this historic effort." I was afraid to click any further for fear of being drafted or investigated.

A strange outfit to be listed as presenting (which I read as sponsoring) an event like this, no?

EDIT: I put on my big boy pants and clicked around there. It seems to be a "front" (for want of a better term) for the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine program. That would explain a lot.

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Why on earth would a company centered on submarines sponsor a car track in Tennessee? I assume these subs are the 100 footers not the foot longs.

Build Submarines has been a very prominent NASCAR sponsor for the last year or two as well, rotating between the Roush-Fenway-Keselowski (RFK) cars of Brad Keselowski and Ryan Preece especially.

That's the same Fenway as in Fenway Park, btw. John W. Henry has held a 50% stake in the team for about 20 years. Not sure whether it's still 50% since Keselowski has bought in.

I could go on a long rant about World of Tanks as well as a recovering addict in that field, but I think we're deep enough down just with the NASCAR excursions...

[Déjà Bru]

I have an odd interest in this event. Not enough to prompt me to fly (heaven forbid; not a fear of flying but a fear of airlines and the whole hellish experience) or drive to Bristol TN but enough for me to be interested in marking my calendar and seeing if it's on the old telly. But probably it will be farmed out to some outfit named The FUBAR Network or something (intentional acronym whimsy). As I said elsewhere, I balk at Balkanization.

[Déjà Bru]

I ran across this just now.

Cool timelapse video shows MLB Speedway Classic diamond taking shape inside BMS infield

It covers eight days, counting by the sundowns. Watch the giant crane that they bring in on day 6 and 7. It whips around like crazy!