The Arizona Diamondbacks have been negotiating with Maricopa County to extend their lease at Chase Field, whose current contract expires in 2027, but the friendly talks took a negative turn this week.

AZCentral published a summary of letters from this week that show sudden discord between the D-backs and the county. Maricopa County sent a counteroffer that Diamondbacks CEO and President Derrick Hall called “extremely offensive” in a private response.

Hall confirmed to Arizona Sports’ Bickley & Marotta on Thursday that the relationship took a bad turn last week. In fact, he said he doesn’t see “a deal in sight” at this time, as the current lease expires in 2027.

“It was definitely the offer, the counter-proposal, which is, in my words, ridiculous,” Hall said of what attacked him. “But also the fact that they went public with it. I don’t understand that. For a long time, I used words like ‘encouraging, optimistic.’ Those words have definitely disappeared. And that’s sad.”

“I mean, they decided to go public with it instead of doing what we’ve been doing all along, quietly, privately, respectfully. You go from lawyer to lawyer, it stays confidential. They then send us a response and a counterproposal, make it public and it goes to the media, and that’s just their side of things.”

Read the rest of this story from Arizona Sports online here.