While any kind of deal would be years away, news broke Thursday that the Tampa Bay Rays have been granted permission to explore the possibility of splitting a home schedule with Montreal in the future.
Interestingly, several days prior, Montreal was voted as the preferred city for an MLB expansion by participants in the SB Nation FanPulse survey. (New surveys are sent out via email each week. Marlins fans, sign up HERE to join FanPulse.)
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Details on this unorthodox two-city solution are still vague at this point.