Look, it’s going to take a lot more than a week to move the concept of sharing the Rays between Tampa Bay and Montreal from the realm of ‘That’s totally bleeping insane’ to ‘Hmm, just maybe that could work.’ Even with some time for things to fester, overcoming the initial shock, anger, befuddlement, suspicion and hope created by initial word of the idea won’t be easy.
Reducing the amount of games to sell in each locale concentrates the interest among fans who buy only a limited number of tickets per season, and reduces the liability. Splitting the schedule by peak-weather months in each region makes vastly less-expensive open-air stadiums realistic. Combining the two markets pulls the Rays out of Major League Baseball’s economic basement.
“Stuart is a stand-up guy who does not want to strip the team out of the city,” he added later during the news conference Wednesday at the offices of his Claridge Inc. “So he’s been working long and hard to come up with creative solutions of how he can keep baseball in Tampa but at the same time have a bit of an economic benefit. Instead of having a $65-million payroll, maybe having a strong partner where his payroll could perhaps be around $100 million.
Conceptually though, at least, Major League Baseball has definitely come up with worse.
Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)
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