The Arizona Diamondbacks have been negotiating with Maricopa County for a lease extension at Chase Field, with the current contract ending in 2027, but the friendly negotiations took a negative turn this week.
AZCentral publishes summary of letter Starting this week, we’ll see some suddenly controversial exchanges between the D-backs and the county. Maricopa County sent a rebuttal that Diamondbacks CEO and President Derrick Hall called “highly offensive” in a private reply.
Hall admitted to Arizona Sports’ Bickley and Marotta on Thursday that their relationship had deteriorated over the past week. In fact, the current lease expires in 2027, so there is currently “no prospect of an agreement in sight.”
“It’s definitely a proposal, a counter-proposal, and in my words, it’s ridiculous,” Hall said of his offence. “But there’s also the fact that they put it out there. I don’t know. For quite some time, I’ve been using words like ‘encouraging and optimistic.’ Indeed, those words have disappeared. And it’s sad.
“So instead of doing what we’ve always done quietly, privately and respectfully, they decided to make this public, going from lawyer to lawyer. But it will be confidential. Then they will send us their response and rebuttal and we will publish it and it will go to the media, but that is just their side of the situation.”
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