The Tampa Bay Rays are asking for more than $700 million in public funding for their new ballpark district plan, but one group is pushing back, insisting that the club pay rent and split profits more evenly with the city and county.
The battle for a new ballpark is well documented for the Tampa Bay Rays, right? Over the years, we've heard many plans for the Rays to improve their ballpark situation, including the now-famed Montreal-Tampa Bay split that would have seen the team play half its season in Canada and half its season in the United States.
Now, the Rays have yet another plan, this time to have a ballpark be part of a new downtown district, but then plan is catching flack according to Front Office Sports:The group, 'No Home Run', is calling for the team to pay rent, split revenue with the city and county, and buy the land at something closer to market rate.The group, 'No Home Run', is calling for the team to pay rent, split revenue with the city and county, and buy the land at something closer to market rate.
The Rays have played at Tropicana Field since the franchise's inception in 1998, and it's widely regarded as one of the worst fan experiences in the sport, despite how good the Rays have been on the field. The Rays play at home on Friday night against the New York Yankees and we'll continue to monitor the ballpark developments as they come.Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University.
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