This is a repost from February, but we believe that it remains the only “regional” solution for a new Rays stadium. Let’s face it, if the Rays move across the bay, they will become “Tampa’s team” and St. Pete will be left out in the cold… A Proposal: Rays Should [...]
Stuart Sternberg spoke up. St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster got pissed. Then Sternberg did something we did not see coming. He basically called Tampa-St. Pete a crappy baseball market… “If I were just coming into this, and you dropped me in the middle of the United States, this isn’t going [...]
Stuart Sternberg’s comments yesterday were firm, but they weren’t unexpected. Since then he has ramped up the rhetoric, even threatening to sell if Tampa and St. Pete can’t work together… “If I don’t get the sense there’s real cooperation, I’d sell the team,” Sternberg said this afternoon at a Tampa [...]
Stuart Sternberg says the Tampa Bay Rays will not survive in downtown St. Pete. St. Pete Mayor Bill Foster says “tough shit” (we’re paraphrasing)… St. Petersburg mayor Bill Foster said he fully expects the Rays to honor their contract and remain playing in downtown St. Petersburg until 2027. “Like it [...]
Here is footage of Stuart Sternberg’s statement from yesterday… THE JUNKYARD DOGS WEBTOPIA… We will have much more on Sternberg’s comments later this morning. The Tampa Tribune has responses from local officials to Stuart Sternberg’s stadium demands…Tampa officials sound both optimistic and very cautious. [Tampa Tribune] Carl Crawford was named [...]
Stuart Sternberg read his anticipated statement and said nothing most of us didn’t already know. Some of the highlights… “Baseball Will Not Work Longterm In Downtown St. Pete.” “The Rays will not be playing in Tropicana Field when our lease expires in 2027.” “When I assumed control of the Rays…Everyone [...]
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The GBT – The Good, The Bad and The Telling sandwich, where The Bad is nice and lean and the The Telling is ripe. THE GOOD: Recovery. There was the flyball that BJ Upton lost and played into a triple. But Carl Crawford’s running grab two batters later kept the [...]
MY Fox Tampa Bay spoke with Matt Silverman who said that he expects the Rays to become more active in stadium talks this year. Silverman was asked who the Rays would involve in those conversations… “When the talks begin the talks will begin and we’ll see — but the first [...]
Noah Pransky points us (via Twitter) to this must read at Field of Schemes and the quest for a new Rays stadium. Here is the home run swing: To sum up: If everything broke right, a new Rays stadium might bring in enough money for the team to turn a [...]
We honestly have no idea why the Tampa Tribune is insistent and publishing stories on the Rays stadium issue every other day when there is nothing new to talk about. And we really have no idea why they would just reprint a previous story on the front page of their [...]
