Rays TV Money - Like Stadium Funding - Depends on Leverage

A new post by Cork Gaines explores what the Rays stand to make on a new television contract...and echoes thoughts I've been posting on this site since 2010 about an impending windfall of TV money:

#Rays next TV deal could be worth $80-100 million PER YEAR http://t.co/p0gMVTWQFT pic.twitter.com/5sc3WQYxH9
— Rays Index (@RaysIndex) October 23, 2014

But that number may largely depend on whether SunSports is bidding against itself. Their price to keep the Rays obviously goes up if the team can get two different parties in the region to compete against each other. 

Sound familiar, politicians of Tampa Bay who want to build a new stadium?