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Rays’ Tampa-Montreal split season plan
officially axed

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Posted By: Hazymac, 1/20/2022 4:33:39 PM

Two and a half years ago, the Tampa Bay Rays devised one of the most innovative, controversial, and frankly, laughable proposals in recent sports history. During the 2019 season, the Rays came to Major League Baseball with an idea to one day split their home games between Tampa Bay and Montreal, with intentions of building open-air stadiums in both cities. That idea was officially killed this week. Commissioner Rob Manfred informed the Rays on Tuesday that the league’s executive council put the kibosh on their idea. “We put everything we had into this effort because we truly believed in it,” team president Rob Auld told the Tampa Bay Times.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 1/20/2022 4:48:48 PM (No. 1045478)
All of this because Tampa’s stadium roof won’tretract.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: NorthernDog 1/20/2022 7:19:30 PM (No. 1045628)
The old Montreal Expos would get a good crowd on opening day, and then limped along with crowds under 20,000 the rest of the year. I don't know why anyone thought this was a good idea.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 1/20/2022 8:29:59 PM (No. 1045698)
If the Rays want to improve attendance, they need to get out of Pinellas and into Hillsborough. Traffic trying to get through Tampa into St Pete is too much of a headache for folks to bother.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Hazymac 1/21/2022 11:44:20 AM (No. 1046318)
Although I am a Pinellas County native, I agree with #3. The Rays' stadium always should have been somewhere near the State Fair grounds near the intersection of I-4 and I-75. Bad decision three decades ago.
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