A lot's happened in the last five years, including the birth - and growth - of Shadow of the Stadium. And today, on its fifth birthday, I thank everyone for following along with what aims to provide some big-picture perspective on where, when, how, and if a new Rays stadium should be built in Tampa Bay.
It's hard to keep track of more than 900 posts, but below are some of this blog's most buzz-generating posts in its first five years:
- Bold predictions: How the Rays Stadium Saga will go down (7/3/09)
- Sternberg gives Tampa Bay stadium ultimatum (6/21/10)
- Gammons: MLB needs ability to blackmail cities (8/31/10)
- Land isn't Problem in Stadium Saga; Funding is (11/19/10)
- Stadium Saga isn't Tampa Bay problem; it's MLB's Problem (8/2/11)
- Times Hates Corporate Welfare; Except for Maybe Pro Sports Teams (3/12/13)
- Crazy Simplistic Thoughts on the Stadium Saga (8/30/13)
- Mayor Kriseman breaks from Times on Rays' future (2/18/14)
- Five years of Tampa Bay Times opening day frustratitorials (3/10/14)
- Any of the recent posts about how eager Florida is to hand out spring training stadium cash
Noah,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your on-going diligence and patience as you keep this site alive and relevant.
One more data point - 5 years ago the Glazer family net worth was $2.2 billion and today it is $4.6 billion. We Hillsborough county taxpayers have only 14 more years to contribute $24 million per year to them via the RayJay subsidy.
It's nice to be a part of these important discussions while offering the "other side of the coin" opinions. Keeping fighting the good fight NO'ah (lol)...
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