https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/04/24/orlando-dreamers-tampa-bay-rays-baseball-franchise/

It's possible we may soon see less baseball being played in Tampa and...

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Morlando

Interesting news, but I'll file this under "I'll believe it when I see it."

A couple big issues here:

1) Rays already have an owner, he'd have to sell the team to this group.....that'd be $1.5B just to acquire the team in order to move it.

2) They'd have to build a park there for the team....that's another $1-1.5B (granted, that can be a mix of public and private funds, but still...

This article is saying they supposedly have LOI and verbal commitments of $1.5B, which is only half what it would take for this operation to happen, unless they're somehow going to convince Stu to move and keep ownership somehow, but then he'd have to let these investors "in" so it's worthwhile for them.

On 4/25/2025 at 2:01 PM, rmc523 said:

2) They'd have to build a park there for the team....that's another $1-1.5B (granted, that can be a mix of public and private funds, but still...

The location they're looking at is right by Aquatica on International Drive, where traffic is already bad. Lol.

$1.7B domed stadium, though!

As a resident of Orlando, please bring them here.

16 hours ago, Michael said:

The location they're looking at is right by Aquatica on International Drive, where traffic is already bad. Lol.

$1.7B domed stadium, though!

As a resident of Orlando, please bring them here.

Yup I’ve been in that area enough times going to the parks to know it can be a disaster sometimes lol. But yeah I think the team would make more sense there at this point. Seems like the Tampa area isn’t going to work for a variety of reasons.

On 4/26/2025 at 5:31 PM, Michael said:

The location they're looking at is right by Aquatica on International Drive, where traffic is already bad. Lol.

$1.7B domed stadium, though!

As a resident of Orlando, please bring them here.

I live in Orlando too, we could go to games and talk about banning people

23 hours ago, mrchainsaw said:

I live in Orlando too, we could go to games and talk about banning people

Then I can ban you after you leak my plans to ban people. Let's do it!

12 hours ago, Michael said:

Then I can ban you after you leak my plans to ban people. Let's do it!

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3 minutes ago, mrchainsaw said:

'ey, @mrchainsaw ain't no snitch

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4 minutes ago, Admin said:

I don't trust a guy that loves chainsaws so much, he names himself after them

12 minutes ago, Admin said:

I don't trust a guy that loves chainsaws so much, he names himself after them

You don't trust the guy that brightens (most of) your gamedays with stupid AI images?

18 minutes ago, mrchainsaw said:

You don't trust the guy that brightens (most of) your gamedays with stupid AI images?

AI told me this is you

Maybe I'm a carpenter?

4 hours ago, mrchainsaw said:

Maybe I'm a carpenter?

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3 minutes ago, hovertical said:

Pretty sure you sell bananas for a living with as many as you give out.

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40 minutes ago, hovertical said:

Pretty sure you sell bananas for a living with as many as you give out.

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21 minutes ago, mrchainsaw said:

I am a sentient chainsaw with a banana fetish