@TBRaysCentral Id rather watch Carson Williams K 50% of the time and get MLB experience than watch 28 year old Oliver Dunn play. Carson’s just gonna be another Ray that goes to another team and kills it because they actually give him playing time
@RaysBaseball I genuinely do not understand how Jonathan Aranda has fans. He has never been exciting, plays a rancid brand of baseball and fails unless he gets a meatball pitch
@OPS_BASEBALL I genuinely do not understand how Jonathan Aranda has fans. He has never been exciting, plays a rancid brand of baseball and fails unless he gets a meatball pitch
I know there was a lot of negativity today in the city Council Chambers, but here’s why I think it was such a huge WIN for @RaysBaseball
The Rays now have a blueprint of what they need to do to get the necessary votes or get the $80 million in CIT funds from somewhere else. They’re not gonna let this deal die over 80 million.
Further, a no today, would have likely lost the state money to rebuild Hillsborough College and therefore killed the deal. So in that sense, it was a huge win and they can continue to negotiate and change the deal and get Maniscalco to vote Yes. Now they know the pathway forward.
I thought @kenbabby incredibly effective in his answers to the council. And I thought Charlie Miranda was incredibly rude to Babby. Very disrespectful to a man representing an ownership group that wants to invest eight to $10 billion into his city. Some of these city council folks were absolutely embarrassing. Their lack of basic economics is astounding. It’s also clear to me. They put their political motives ahead of the people. Shameful.
I’m still very confident this deal gets done, but there is still much work to be done. Babby showed today how willing the Rays are to compromise and give back but at some point they may have to look elsewhere and collect the $2 billion they could get from 10 other cities. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that and our elected officials can get their act together. The county, which is the most important group seems to understand how great this deal is for the people they will get this done. I think my man Palermo brought the passion many of us feel after today.
@ltw0303@RaysBaseball I mean Jax has been coming in after an opener/Scholtens which I presume doesn’t count towards those innings + Boyle will be back at some point if he can get any control whatsoever