At times wistful and at other times defensive, Stu Sternberg made his first public comments since Commissioner Rob Manfred surprised the baseball world last week by announcing that he’d granted the Tampa Bay Rays permission to explore splitting home games between Tampa Bay (FL) and Montreal (QC). Read more and watch full press conference here.
Rays’ Sternberg Makes First Public Comments About Playing in Two Home Ballparks
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Sternberg certainly comes off as disingenuous. Everyone knows he’d be using this as a primer to an eventual franchise move. I doubt this will happen as planned but I could see the Rays playing 1 or 2 series in Montreal each year.