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Saturday, February 06, 2010

Tampa Bay Rays ironclad lease at the Trop runs til 2026-Bill Madden

"Talk about shooting the messenger. Last week, the St. Petersburg mayor and city council effectively fired the ABC Coalition ( 'A Baseball Community') group that had been consulting with the Tampa Bay Rays and the city of St. Pete
  • about prospective sites for a new retractable roof stadium. The move came after the group listed in its final report west Tampa and downtown Tampa - across the bridge in Hillsborough County -
  • as two potential sites for a new park,
along with the gateway area of St. Pete. This is not news, but the Rays had better resign themselves to staying put, "It's a Madd, Madd World, from Bill Madden column, "Thoughts on Curtis Granderson and the rest of the NY Yankees offseason remodeling," 2/6/10 It's been said before, no matter how good the Rays are, how well managed, how cheaply tickets are priced, they can't succeed in St. Petersburg. There isn't enough of a population base there. There aren't enough people in Tampa either who will make the drive in sweltering heat having to run air conditioning with high gas prices.

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