We all remember last year the Rays wanted to build a new open air ball park on the bay front in downtown St Pete, not to be payed for by the Rays but by the alleged profit from the sale of the Tropicana Field property.
Fast forward to this year and now the Rays want a retractable dome stadium that will cost between 550 and 600 million and not much is being said where it will come from or where it will be built.
Now the Yankee's have built there 1.5 billion Taj Mahal, which will be paid in full by the Yankees, but is being financed by tax free bonds, which have many politicians and the Media there howling.
The old Yankee Stadium was 85 year's old and a structural time bomb a few years ago when the Yanks where on the road a 30+ foot beam fell out of the upper deck, and had other problems.
The dome in St Pete is less then 20 years old, yeah I know it could have been made better, without the cat walks and all but is still a relatively new ball park and the team has a contract to play in St Pete through the 2027 season, and I would think where they are now.
I think the city and county needs to show some back bone and think of the tax payers first for a change, let the Rays get at least another 10 years out of the dome and let the team pay for part of a new stadium.
I do have a question has the city and county paid off the old stadium yet?
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