When talk of the Rays moving comes up, Charlotte is the city most often cited as a potential landing spot. We can now scratch them off the list. This flown under the radar around these parts. But the city of Charlotte recently began construction of a new minor league ballpark [...]
A just few leftover links to get the weekend started… Sun Sports will broadcast four spring games, including March 10 (Red Sox), March 15 (Phillies), March 23 (Twins), and March 27 (Blue Jays). It still amazes me that Major League Baseball can’t set up a single wide-view camera at the [...]
![[THE HANGOVER] The One Where We Discuss New Contract Details, Funding For A Stadium, And Another Top Prospects List](http://www.raysindex.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BCYXDjICAAEawuJ-160x120.jpg)
Kaenon eyewear released some pictures of Joe Maddon trying on some new glasses. Will we see one of these models next season? THE JUNKYARD DOGS WEBTOPIA… Luke Scott’s $2.75 million contract includes $750,000 in incentives (likely tied to number of plate appearances). [Don Connolly] Meanwhile, Kyle Farnsworth can make up [...]
A St. Pete City Council member wants to amend the Rays’ contract with the city to allow them to look at potential stadium sites outside of Pinellas County. There is just one small big catch: They want a big check first (via TBO.com)… Councilman Charlie Gerdes proposes amending the contract [...]
![[HAPPY HOUR] The One Where We Discuss Longoria’s New Camo Spikes, A Half-Naked Zobrist, And Miss Florida’s New Beau](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8083/8435371565_2be5918364_b.jpg)
Evan Longoria spoke to KicksOnFire.com about shoes and revealed this little nugget about what he will where on the field in 2013… “I’m trying to get crazy this year. I’m going to do type of camo [on the new shoe], whether it be regular camo or digi camo on the [...]
Yesterday, Stuart Sternberg told the Pinellas County Commissioners that only 300 season ticket holders are from the city of St. Pete. We initially heard that these accounts represented “just shy of 1,000 tickets.” Today we have a better idea of what the numbers represent, and if anything, they sound worse [...]
Stuart Sternberg and four other members of the Rays front office are meeting today with Pinellas County Commissioners, one week after meeting with Hillsborough County Commissioners. You can follow along with notes from the meeting at the Twitter account of Shadow of the Stadium. But we already have one damning [...]
Good morning Raysheads. Here are a few links to start the week… 620 WDAE reached an agreement to continue broadcasting Rays games over the radio. Also, the 1970s “throwbacks” will back in 2013 “for a game or two.” [TampaBay.com] Noah Pransky has some of the fallout from last week’s meeting [...]
St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster went on 620 WDAE this morning to respond to comments made by the Rays during yesterday’s meeting with Hillsborough County officials. And if you are the optimistic sort, he made some of the most promising comments yet to come from the west side of the [...]
Yesterday it was reported in multiple outlets that Michael Kalt of the Rays compared the Tropicana Field population base to that of a minor league ballclub, noting that it is smaller than “eight AAA clubs.” The Rays have clarified Kalt’s comments. We have been told that he was referring specifically [...]
