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• It’s All in the Overruns
The Pinellas County Commission voted to approve funding for the Rays new stadium. The want the Rays to cover all cost overruns, and that may be an issue: The Rays say costs of the new ballpark will inevitably rise because its planned opening will be delayed at least a year, from 2028 to 2029. It’s […]...2024
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• County Commission votes to approve bondsPhoto by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Stop me if you’ve heard this before..... The Pinellas County Commission voted today to approve $312 million in bonds backed by proceeds from the county’s Tourist Development Tax. This at least in theory puts the Gas Plant stadium deal back on track. The Commission’s vote was 5-2 in favor of approving the bonds. The two no vot...2024See also Rob Manfred -
• County OK's financing for new $1.3B Rays home
After a nearly two-month delay, the Pinellas County Commission voted Tuesday in favor of its share of financing for a new $1.3 billion Tampa Bay Rays ballpark, part of a plan to keep the team in St. Petersburg for another 30 years....2024
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• Manfred, St. Pete officials meet over Rays' home
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred met with Pinellas County chairwoman Kathleen Peters and St. Petersburg mayor Ken Welch to express support ahead of a Dec. 17 vote on public financing for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium....2024Continue with Rob Manfred
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• Outside The Confines: Stadium news aboundsPhoto by Mario Hommes/DeFodi Images via Getty Images The Rays and the A’s are both moving forward... probably. In today’s news we have a mixed bag of everything: will Juan Soto crack the $700 million mark for his contract? Should Shohei Ohtani play the field? What does the Luis Severino signing mean for the pitching market? But the biggest news is from two ongoing stadium sagas. In Tampa B...2024See also Mario Hommes DeFodi -
• Royals Rumblings - News for December 6, 2024I’m pretty sure I’ve used this image before (probably multiple times) | Photo by John Sleezer/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Have the Royals signed Juan Soto yet? I know we’ve already talked about it, but at The Star, Jaylon Thompson wrote about the “golden at-bat” idea: “The player side of it is really difficult for the union,” Manfred said. “Obviously, you want co...2024See more articles Tribune News Service
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• How the Rays lost the new stadium deal: A timelineVividSeats Here’s how it all went wrong. It seems like the death of the Tampa Bay Rays is finally upon us, with the City of St. Petersburg requesting the team formally withdraw from an agreed upon new stadium project. How did we get here? The efforts of Rays ownership to find a home field other than Tropicana Field goes back at least to 2008, when the team first proposed building on the si...2024See also Tropicana Field -
• How the Rays lost the new stadium deal: A timelineVividSeats It seems like the death of the Tampa Bay Rays is finally upon us, with the City of St. Petersburg requesting the team formally withdraw from an agreed upon new stadium project. How did we get here? The efforts of Rays ownership to find a home field other than Tropicana Field goes back at least to 2008, when the team first proposed building on the site of Al Lopez Park (now the R...2024See also Tropicana Field
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• Rays halt new stadium project: 8 takeaways from the Pinellas County Commission meetingThe Rays have not pulled out of the St. Petersburg new stadium deal yet, but have claimed they cannot move forward due to rising costs. Yesterday the Pinellas County Commission decided to, once again, delay a vote on issuing bonds to raise the $312.5 million they have committed to the new Rays stadium. We reported on that meeting last night; today we reflect on the implications of that vote moving...2024Visit the page Brian Scott -
• Pinellas County Commission delays stadium funding vote again, citing anger at the RaysThe Rays stadium’s future will now be decided December 17. The Pinellas County Commission has delayed its vote on $312.5 million in bonds to help fund the new Rays stadium to December 17, expressing extensive anger at both the Tampa Bay Rays and owner Stuart Sternberg. By delaying the vote once again, the Commission will provide another month of research for its voting body — including the two ne...2024 -
• Would FEMA cover the cost of repairing Tropicana Field?Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images Mayor Ken Welch believes they might. Per the original use agreement, the City of St. Petersburg appears to be on the hook for the repairs needed to make Tropicana Field playable (even though it’s Pinellas County that draws tax revenue from the Rays playing in St. Petersburg). In its initial assessment of the damage to Tropicana Field, the city report propose...2024Visit the page Tropicana Field -
• Weekend Rumblings - News for November 1, 2024Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images Royals players hit free agency. Craig Brown looks at the new Royals free agents and whether they could return. Maybe if you squint, you can see a reunion with a couple of these guys. Michael Lorenzen could slot into the rotation. He will be 33 next year and pitched to a 1.57 ERA once joining the Royals. Beware the small sample though as that was just 28.2 ...2024Continue with Craig Brown
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• What’s at stake in Pinellas County’s meeting on the new Rays Stadium bonds tomorrowAnclote Key Preserve State Park | Patrick Connolly/Orlando Sentine/Tribune News Service via Getty Imagesl Elections have consequences: will the new Pinellas County Commission make a U-turn on stadium financing? The agreement to build a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays hit a roadblock recently, as the Pinellas County Commission has delayed a vote on issuing bonds that would help pay for ...2024Visit the page Tribune News Service -
• Stadium Updates: We have a (first) vote! And it favors the Gasplant District Redevelopment!Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Here’s why nothing is final yet. This week, St. Petersburg inched a bit closer to a deal for the redevelopment of the former Gas Plant District anchored by a baseball stadium that will be the home of the Rays for years to come. The St. Petersburg City Council took the first of two required votes on the development agreement with the Rays/Hi...2024See more articles MLB Photos
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"July 31, 2024 — The Pinellas County Commission agrees to issue $312." - 2023
"Petersburg and Pinellas County to move forward with a new state-of-the-art ballpark and an overall development called the Hines Historic Gas Plant Partnership on the 86-acre site where the team’s current stadium sits." - 2022
"Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker was arrested Friday morning on charges of speeding and driving under the influence, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office." - 2021
"Five minority owners of the Rays filed a lawsuit against majority owner Stuart Sternberg in the Pinellas County Circuit Court over the weekend (full complaint available here)." - 2020
"Blue Jays catcher Reese McGuire was arrested on Friday for allegedly exposing himself, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office told Sportsnet." - 2016
"Petersburg City Council voted in favor of allowing the team to seek potential sites in Pinellas County as well as Tampa and the rest of Hillsborough County." - 2015
"According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Braves recently submitted a proposal to the Pinellas County Commission to develop a 240-acre landfill into a multi-use facility that would serve as their Spring Training complex and provide top-notch playing fields for amateur and professional clubs to use once the Major League regular season begins." - 2014
"The team has played since its inception in Pinellas County at what now is called Tropicana Field, and has often ranked near the bottom in major league home attendance."
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• Outside The Confines: Stadium news abounds
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 6, 2024
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• Rays respond to county ultimatum: Deal 'in effect'
In response to a deadline from the Pinellas County Commission to declare whether they are in or out on a new stadium agreement, the Rays said in a letter Monday that their deal to build a $1.3 billion ballpark is still "in effect."...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Derek Jeter is artPhoto by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Literally. Welcome to December, everyone! Last week was a lighter week with Thanksgiving, so a lot of sites were taking time off reporting for a few days, but we’ve still got a few items to catch up on, so we’ll touch on all the highlights. Still, it’ll be a slightly shorter links post than usual only because there hasn’t been much reporting happening sin...2024Check it out Derek Jeter -
• Stadium Standoff
The Rays stood pat on a stadium deal: The Tampa Bay Rays have declined the Pinellas County Commission’s request to clarify whether the team will follow through or back out of a deal to build a new $1.3 billion stadium in downtown St. Petersburg. Instead, ahead of a Sunday deadline, the team stuck to the […]...2024
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• Pinellas County Commission requests Rays terminate new stadium deal by Dec. 1Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images The letter also illustrates that the county has not missed any deadlines thus far, despite the Rays “fallacious” claims. The Pinellas County Commission’s leader, Chairperson Kathleen Peters, has responded to the letter issued by Rays co-Presidents Brian Auld and Matt Silverman with her own scathing response via a latter, with three important takeaways: ...2024 -
• Could the Tampa Bay Rays be headed out of Florida?StadiumPage.com Based on what happened last week in St. Petersburg, the answer could be “Yes.” There’s an ongoing saga, as you know, regarding where the Tampa Bay Rays will be playing going forward. There was a deal nearly all settled for a new Rays stadium to be built in St. Petersburgh and opening in 2028, before Hurricane Milton not only blew the roof off of Tropicana Field but might ha...2024Click for news about Hurricane Milton -
• How the Rays lost the new stadium deal: A timeline
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• How the Rays lost the new stadium deal: A timeline
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• Rays halt new stadium project: 8 takeaways from the Pinellas County Commission meeting
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• County Commission votes to approve bonds
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 6, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: Derek Jeter is art
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• Pinellas County Commission requests Rays terminate new stadium deal by Dec. 1
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• St. Petersburg City Council approves funds to repair Tropicana Field’s roofPhoto by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The city’s commitment is not to exceed $23,726,567, and is intended to simply make the field playable. This does not include cosmetic items that impact fan experience, such as food or acoustics. The St. Petersburg City Council met this afternoon to discuss two important matters regarding the Rays future: Whether to fund $55 ...2024Check it out Tropicana Field -
• What’s at stake in Pinellas County’s meeting on the new Rays Stadium bonds tomorrow
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• The Rays might lose their stadium funding if they don’t play in Pinellas County for the next 3 yearsAerial view of Tropicana Field after the roof was torn off by Hurricane Milton | Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The plot thickens. As you know, the roof of Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays, was torn off by Hurricane Milton earlier this month. It doesn’t appear likely that the Rays will be able to repair their stadium in time to play...2024Continue with Tropicana Field -
• Outside The Confines: A new home for the RaysPhoto by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Rays have passed one of the most difficult hurdles to securing their new stadium Baseball isn’t leaving St. Petersburg, FL any time soon, thanks to a major hurdle the Rays cleared today. The City council voted in favor of the Rays stadium deal, meaning the team has found its home for the next thirty years. Specifically, the vote was to ...2024See more MLB Photos -
• Stadium Updates: We have a (first) vote! And it favors the Gasplant District Redevelopment!
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• County Commission votes to approve bonds
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• Outside The Confines: Stadium news abounds
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• Royals Rumblings - News for December 6, 2024
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• The History of George M. Steinbrenner Field@GMSField Home of the Rays in 2025. If you plan to attend a Tampa Bay Rays home game in 2025, you will be visiting Steinbrenner Field on Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa. As the Rays take up residence across the bay, it got us thinking about the close, century-long connection between professional baseball and the city of Tampa. Here’s a brief history on the legend of what was once called Lege...2024See more Steinbrenner Field -
• Tampa Bay Rays to play home games at Steinbrenner Field for the 2025 seasonPhoto by Tim Boyles/Getty Images The Rays have a home in Tampa Bay after all... With Tropicana Field in tatters, the Tampa Bay Rays will move across the bay to Tampa to play their regular season home games throughout the 2025 regular season, moving to George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, the spring training home of the New York Yankees. The Rays stadium was significantly damaged by Hurri...2024See more articles Steinbrenner Field -
• Rays receive final approval for new stadium in St. Petersburg!The Pinellas County Commission voted 5-2 to score a new stadium for the Rays in St. Pete. It’s official! The Rays are “Here to Stay.” During a busy MLB trade deadline, the Rays biggest acquisition wasn’t a bevy of top prospects, it was the final, necessary approvals for the team’s Gas Plant district redevelopment and new stadium project in St. Petersburg. The Rays marked the milestone with a vid...2024See more articles Tropicana Field -
• Outside The Confines: A new home for the Rays
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• Rays reach $1.3 billion stadium deal with St. PetersburgRays owner commits to $700 million in spend, “plus cost overruns” Finally! The Tampa Bay Rays announced today that a historic agreement has been reached with the City of St. Petersburg and Pinellas County to move forward with a new state-of-the-art ballpark and an overall development called the Hines Historic Gas Plant Partnership on the 86-acre site where the team’s current stadium sits. The agre...2023 -
• Pinellas County and St. Petersburg commissioned an economic impact study of a new Rays stadium. Here’s what it said.
Side note: Is 15,000 jobs a lot? Thanks to Tampa Bay Times reporters Colleen Wright and Jack Evans, we have learned that St. Petersburg and Pinellas County governments contracted with a firm called Victus to study the economic impact of a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. This report looks at both economic and social impacts, and is no doubt intended to help city and county elected officials ma...2023See more Jack Evans
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• Rays cleared to explore new stadium locations
The Rays have been granted approval to explore stadium options across the Tampa Bay area. On Thursday, the St. Petersburg City Council voted in favor of allowing the team to seek potential sites in Pinellas County as well as Tampa and the rest of Hillsborough County....2016
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• Blue Jays Pitching Coach Pete Walker Arrested On DUI Charges
Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker was arrested Friday morning on charges of speeding and driving under the influence, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. (WFLA’s Nathaniel Rodriguez broke the news.) Sportsnet’s Arden Zwelling adds that Walker was released on a $500 bond later that morning, and that he will make a statement to…...2022See also Blue Jays
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• How the Rays lost the new stadium deal: A timeline
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• Pinellas County threatens to pull stadium funding if Rays leave for 2025-2027 seasonsPhoto by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images 23% of the new stadium funding is now at risk. The Rays currently have no idea where they will play next season following the destruction of Tropicana Field’s roof and the flooding of the ballpark, but that hasn’t stopped Pinellas County from putting their thumb on the scales. According to Mark Parker at the St Pete Catalyst...2024Check it out Tropicana Field -
• Rays reach $1.3 billion stadium deal with St. Petersburg
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• Report: Braves looking at new spring home
The Braves search for a new Spring Training home has led them to propose developing a site near St. Petersburg, Fla. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Braves recently submitted a proposal to the Pinellas County Commission to develop a 240-acre landfill into a multi-use facility that would serve as their Spring Training complex and provide top-notch playing fields for amateur and professional c...2015Read about Spring Training
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• Report: Braves looking at new spring home
The Braves search for a new Spring Training home has led them to propose developing a site near St. Petersburg, Fla. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Braves recently submitted a proposal to the Pinellas County Commission to develop a 240-acre landfill into a multi-use facility that would serve as their Spring Training complex and provide top-notch playing fields for amateur and professional c...2015Visit the page Spring Training
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• County Commission votes to approve bonds
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• Good Day for Stadiums
St. Petersburg approved the bonds for the Rays new stadium. This is only part of the deal. The Pinellas County Commission also must decide whether to approve its share, with a vote set later in December. Meanwhile, the Rays will play this season in the New York Yankees’ spring training site, Steinbrenner Field in Tampa […]...2024See also New York Yankees
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• St. Pete City Council calls Rays bluff, rushes approval of their new stadium bondsPhoto by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Rays might still leave St. Pete, but it won’t be the City’s fault. After a last-minute addition to the agenda for the St. Petersburg City Council meeting today, the Council approved in a 4-3 vote taking on the necessary debt to cover their nearly $287.5 million share of the promised ~$600 million in public financing for t...2024See more articles Tropicana Field -
• Rays Your Voice: The Stadium StandoffPhoto by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Where do we go from here? I try to keep stadium news off of the podcast as much as possible, but at this point there’s nothing more paramount to discuss when it comes to the Rays. When Hurricane Milton ripped the roof of Tropicana Field, everything we knew about this stadium deal was blown away. So for the latest episode of R...2024See more Hurricane Milton -
• Pinellas County Commission requests Rays terminate new stadium deal by Dec. 1
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• Could the Tampa Bay Rays be headed out of Florida?
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• How the Rays lost the new stadium deal: A timeline
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• Rays halt new stadium project: 8 takeaways from the Pinellas County Commission meeting
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• Rays to announce St. Petersburg stadium deal this weekAccording to Marc Topkin at the Tampa Bay Times, the Rays are set to announce a new stadium deal with the city of St. Petersburg at the eleventh hour. BREAKING: #Rays set to announce deal for new stadium in St. Pete https://t.co/A23GDAhwVj— Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) September 18, 2023 Here’s what we know: After 16 years of speculation, dating back to the change from Devil Rays to Rays, t...2023See also Marc Topkin