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One-hand clapping? The Rays crowds are getting even worse

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The upper deck is emptier, if that is possible. The outfield bleachers are lonelier, if you can believe it. The scattered voices carry farther, and would you please hold it down? Oh, my goodness. The lousy attendance you’ve heard so much about at Tropicana Field is getting worse. Any worse, and it will be able to split a box of Cracker Jack. After three straight years of last-place crowds, would you have thought it possible? The Trop is even more…

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Rays grow tired of seeing Grant Balfour blow up on the mound

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In the last ride of Grant Balfour, there were runners everywhere. A deficit got out of hand. Gas was thrown on the fire. There was ugly all around. A game was lost. You know, like usual. One of the largest financial mistakes in Rays’ history came to an inglorious end Saturday night. Balfour, brought in as the team’s closer, was released after a miserable outing to the New York Yankees. He walked three. He gave up a grand slam. He turned…

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In alternate universe of St. Pete Mayor Bob Buckhorn, Pier would already be gone

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Imagine a world where Bob Buckhorn is the mayor of St. Pete, not Tampa. According to his version of that parallel universe, the Pier as it exists today would not be there. If that were the case, the rampant bickering among inverted-pyramid-loving activists and city leaders trying to figure out what in the bejesus to do about this longstanding dilemma wouldn’t really be a thing. Sure there’d be a bunch of pissed off activists complaining they didn’t have a say…

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The end for SaintPetersBlog

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Stu Sternberg seems calm despite stadium delays, slow ticket sales

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This day works. Just ask the man in the tan sports jacket walking around the infield. This day works, although so many days of baseball do not. This day works, although individual ticket sales are down, and season ticket sales are down, and sponsorship sales are down. This day works, although much of his team is starting over in a market that seems to have no patience for it. This is Opening Day, after all. This is the day the…

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Contrary to Times editorial, Steve Kornell shouldn’t be ousted

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The Tampa Bay Times published an editorial Wednesday calling for the heads of five City Council members who voted against Mayor Rick Kriseman’s original deal brokered with the Tampa Bay Rays to allow them to look outside of St. Pete for potential stadium sites. The editorial, to put it mildly, was brutal. The Times’ editorial board called Wengay Newton and Bill Dudley lacking in leadership. It said Amy Foster ran for her seat based on business acumen, but has yet to show…

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Gary Shelton: Who will win in the Rays-St. Pete stalemate?

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One side has a lease. The other side says that’s grand … as long as you want to make a paper airplane. So who is winning? One side has crowds that don’t show up. The other side has a team that finished in fourth place last year. So who is really ahead? It’s another year, another squabble, and around St. Petersburg, the common response is that people just want to see baseball. They seem weary of hearing how empty the…

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St. Pete City Council will not be voting on a revised Rays deal until after a workshop

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St. Pete City Council will not be voting on a revised Rays deal anytime soon. City Council Chair Charlie Gerdes said instead he’s going to move forward with a request to workshop possible problems still lingering on the mind of five council members who voted no last December on Mayor Rick Kriseman’s original deal. “The mayor had some conversations with some of my colleagues and there’s just not a high enough confidence level that two of them will change their…

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