NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Nashville Sounds are looking for a different way to finance a new stadium, but the proposal is facing opposition from Mayor Karl Dean.

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The mayor is against the legislation that was filed earlier this year to use sales tax generated by the new ballpark to pay off debt to build the stadium. The legislation would create a so-called tourist development zone.

Metro's Finance Director Rich Riebeling is also at odds with the proposal.

"We've never really received from them a concrete number as to what the team's willing to finance. Everything is so hypothethical and to go for some new legislation that tries to capture some state sales tax, just seems premature," said Riebeling.

But many area baseball fans said the Sounds current facility, Greer Stadium, is antiquated.

"They need something new. Triple-A baseball can't really play in something like that. I can see that for maybe Rookie league or Single-A league ball, but Triple-A, you need a new stadium," said Scott Hoezscher, Sounds Baseball Fan.

With the Sounds players only one step away from the majors, the fans who fill the seats feel the environment at Greer Stadium is anything but major.

Sounds general manager Glenn Yeager is in support of this legislation and said the tourist development zone would be the best way to finance the ballpark.

The bill to create the zone is currently stuck in a Senate subcommittee.

Dean said last month that if a new stadium is to be built for the Sounds, it will have to be funded by the baseball club.

In the past, the team has hinted it may go elsewhere if it could not get a stadium built in downtown.

Yeager said the team is staying put even though plans to build a downtown stadium have fallen apart repeatedly over the past two years.

In the past, the team has asked for help from Metro government in its effort to build a new stadium, which caused fears that it would hurt taxpayers.