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Stuart Sternberg, the owner of the Tampa Bay Rays, said today the Major League Baseball no longer believes in the viability of having a franchise there. I have always said that the Rays should be in Orlando. I think that's a better market for sports, and the Rays would draw better there.
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The Bay Area will lose the Rays unless the stubborn mayor of St. Pete does what's best for the area and let's the Rays out of the lease at the Trop.
Team should be relocated near downtown Tampa. Not sure if Orlando is a good alternative, metro area has only 1,500,000 people while Tampa Bay is at 2,500,000.
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Because maybe he would not like being remembered as the guy who was responsible for the loss of the Rays for the area. He needs to do the right thing.
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Florida sucks. Get em all out of there.
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If he lets the Rays out of their lease they would probably bolt anyways.
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They should let the state float away.
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Ridiculousness across all sports: (1) "You have no valid opinion because you never played the game." (2) "Stats are irrelevant. This guy just doesn't know how to win." |
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Would the Orlando tourist factor help make up for the population difference? |
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Pretty much this. We heard the same story in Miami. They built a multi-million dollar facility in the "better location", and they still couldn't draw. Shut the state down after Spring Training and move these two teams to cities that will appreciate them.
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Where are they going to go? Is there a city out there that will publicly finance a $700m-$1b stadium anymore?
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I think New York would be the best place to locate a new team. I seriously doubt the Rays would get fans even if they moved to downtown Tampa. It didn't help the Marlins.
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Montreal deserves a team, as well. Loria **** all over that city and its fans, who were robbed of a likely World Series appearance in 1994 due to the incompetence of Selig and Fehr, and was then allowed to buy the Marlins- again a result of Selig's incompetence- whom he has ruined perhaps beyond repair. |
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That's not a bad idea, actually. It would be nice having LeBron and Wade out of the country permanently.
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And while the damn Yankees would scream like spoiled brat about the whole concept, can you imagine how fun and appealing (and probably lucrative) a New York/Brooklyn rivalry in baseball would be? |
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