Rays new stadium on hold indefinetley...

[mulheap]

the St. Pete Blue-Hairs get thier way.

the silver lining.....Hillsborough County is not out of the discussion for the new location!

http://blogs.tampabay.com/ballpark/2008/06/rays-press-conf.html

[smazza]

no tax papyer money should go into such a project

[flsportsfan83]

no tax papyer money should go into such a project

agree 100% TAX DOLLARS SHOULD NEVER BE USED FOR A PRO STADIUM

[Joe]

No shock. And it wasn't just the blue hairs.

Political reasons aside, the economy sucks right now. People are spending records into gas.

The Rays are heading in the right direction, but they are asking for 300 Million after getting a remodeled and somewhat new Trop in 1997, they've underspent and constantly been one of the worst teams in baseball.

Yes, they are winning now (at the right time too) but it's gonna take more convincing than that.

Hopwfully they can revisit this in couple years when the money is better.

[TB Bulls]

No shock. And it wasn't just the blue hairs.

Political reasons aside, the economy sucks right now. People are spending records into gas.

The Rays are heading in the right direction, but they are asking for 300 Million after getting a remodeled and somewhat new Trop in 1997, they've underspent and constantly been one of the worst teams in baseball.

Yes, they are winning now (at the right time too) but it's gonna take more convincing than that.

Hopwfully they can revisit this in couple years when the money is better.

As much as I liked the new stadium, I can't disagree with anything you said.  Tough times these days.

[mikebeau]

No shock. And it wasn't just the blue hairs.

Political reasons aside, the economy sucks right now. People are spending records into gas.

The Rays are heading in the right direction, but they are asking for 300 Million after getting a remodeled and somewhat new Trop in 1997, they've underspent and constantly been one of the worst teams in baseball.

Yes, they are winning now (at the right time too) but it's gonna take more convincing than that.

Hopwfully they can revisit this in couple years when the money is better.

As much as I liked the new stadium, I can't disagree with anything you said.  Tough times these days.

It sucks that they're gonna put together the Bluehair(ribbon) panel for baseball that will no doubt water down such a beautiful idea.  From what I read about the discussions leading up to the construction of tropicana field, the same thing happened.  They had a nice outdoor proposal but ended up with a crappy dome.

[mulheap]

no tax papyer money should go into such a project

I would gladly pay half a cent sales tax to see the Rays play in Tampa

[nobull.Bulls]

Too many people still in St. Pete from when they built tropicana for em, cost a cool 100 million

[mikebeau]

Too many people still in St. Pete from when they built tropicana for em, cost a cool 100 million

funny thing is they didn't even build tropicana field for the rays.

they built it to try to get a team, but they also built it to have boat shows ans home shows and whatever else they could

[Joe]

They built Tropicana for the White Sox, hen the Giants. In 1996-97 they made about 70M in improvments for the Rays. The past 2 seasons an additional 35 Million has been thrown in.