The Tampa Bay Rays may be facing a potential lawsuit if they go ahead and meet with Hillsborough County about a new stadium, but otherwise the gambit is working out great: In the last 24 hours, the Pinellas County Commission voted to open its own talks with the Rays, and a private development firm asked to pitch a new stadium idea for the Gateway area to St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster in order to, as Fox 13 puts it, “squash any suggestion that Rays might move across the bay — or further.”
Not that this was necessarily the Rays scheme all along, to raise the possibility of a stadium in Tampa in order to jumpstart stadium talks on the other side of the bay that until now were in stasis thanks to St. Petersburg’s unbreakable lease. But if it works out that way, I don’t imagine they’ll be complaining.
from Field of Schemes http://www.fieldofschemes.com/2012/08/08/3632/floodgates-open-now-everybody-wants-to-talk-stadium-with-rays/
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