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This year was shaping up to be the one local baseball fans had been long hoping for, the year when Major League Baseball was preserved in the Tampa Bay region and where the new stadium squabbling finally came to a close.
Alas, politics and Mother Nature had other ideas.
Hurricane-related construction delays prompted cost overruns and more delays. Eventually, the city of St. Pete and Pinellas County approved necessary bonds, so the deal isn’t dead, but it might be on life support. Still unanswered is how the Rays will manage increased costs and even how much those increased costs are.
– Janelle Irwin, Florida Politics