Baseball franchise's cloudy future in region grows darker

As 2020 arrives, the Tampa Bay Rays' tenure in St. Petersburg is in peril. Several business community leaders hope to rally the team to stay in town — full time.


  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. January 3, 2020
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Mark Wemple. Tampa attorney Ron Christaldi, decked out in his "Raybor City" jersey, believes a deal to move the Tampa Bay Rays to Ybor City will be revived in 2020.
Mark Wemple. Tampa attorney Ron Christaldi, decked out in his "Raybor City" jersey, believes a deal to move the Tampa Bay Rays to Ybor City will be revived in 2020.
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Eight years … 96 months … 417 weeks … 2,920 days … two presidential terms — any way you slice it, eight years seems like a long time.

But in the context of St. Petersburg’s relationship with the Tampa Bay Rays and how long it would take to secure a new stadium for the Major League Baseball team, eight years has begun to look like eight too few.

 

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