As it’s currently construed, Major League Baseball in the Tampa Bay area simply is not going to work. The Rays play in a domed stadium that has the charm of a Costco, in a location that almost always requires agonizingly long car trips involving traffic-choked bridges and in a part of the world populated by fixed-income seniors, service-industry workers and few of the corporations that usually purchase luxury suites.
The solution, then, is to move the Rays somewhere, either to a new stadium in the area or to a new part of the country.