Tough Road Ahead: TB Rays Faces a Month of Away Games

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00:00about the race schedule coming out of the break like they played terrible baseball going into the

00:07break uh they weren't winning at all and now this uh steinbrenner field situation is rearing its

00:16ugly head like what do they have 24 of 30 on the road something like that like it's something

00:22horrific you know teams go on six and nine gamers all the time it's no big deal but

00:28when you're talking about playing for a month straight on the road doesn't that uh give you

00:33some kind of uh a problem like i mean i think that catches up with them they're one and a half

00:40out of a wild card and i think they're already uh in trouble in the east what do you think that

00:46uh schedule it airs does to them i mean it's tough but sometimes when these teams go on those long

00:52road trips uh can kind of bring in some camaraderie remember the asteroids had to do that years ago

00:59with a with a hurricane and they were on the road for three or four weeks uh i want to say three

01:04weeks for sure so you know hey you get along with it you get to know your got buddies better uh it can

01:11be kind of a bonding experience but it's tough i mean particularly you're going from you know the

01:16confines and where it's the same climate every single day inside a dome i'm not talking about

01:22steinburner field but the old trap and that's a big adjustment too so now to have it both ways it

01:27makes it tough i think maybe that's why baseball said yeah you can have the playoff games at a

01:32steinburner field knowing that you know what what's the odds of them actually playing a home game at

01:37steinburner field yeah and let me ask you what you thought of their sale and uh whether you believe

01:45that this group from jacksonville this home uh building company uh is gonna keep them in in tampa

01:54you know this guy zalupski has said that he is willing to keep them in tampa he's not interested in

02:01st petersburg but my thinking is like you know it's 1.7 billion for the team he would i don't believe

02:10the city of tampa bay is going to build him a baseball stadium for three billion dollars i think

02:16he'd have to pay for that whereas if he went to nashville or charlotte they would build him a

02:24stadium for three billion dollars and he wouldn't have to pay for it i don't believe him that he says

02:28he's going to keep him in tampa well i do because uh if he's not going to stay in tampa he's not going

02:36to get approved as an owner so he's got to be telling the ownerships of their teams that hey

02:41i'm going to get this done i'm going to finance a lot of it myself they got to stay in tampa they're

02:47going to use those other teams for expansion sites